'In order to figure out what happened, there is a lot of information we need to get,' Forensic engineer Allyn Kilsheimer said.
, to determine the cause of the Champlain Towers South condominium collapse. On Wednesday, he said police have hindered his investigation.
Miami-Dade County police have labeled the site and debris from the June 24 collapse a crime scene, and have thus protected the area. Kilsheimer told localaffiliate WPLG that the move to make it a crime scene has led to him being denied the access he needs.The current death toll as of press time from the collapse is 97, according to the Miami-Dade County Mayor's office.
The forensic engineer hired by Surfside, Fla., to investigate the cause of the recent condo collapse said police are denying him site access. In this photo, members of the South Florida Urban Search and Rescue team look for possible survivors at the site of the partially collapsed building on June 27, 2021.Kilsheimer told WPLG he's leaving at the end of this week and said he will be doing so without all the information he needs.
"In order to figure out what happened, there is a lot of information we need to get," he said."And it requires access to the site and access to materials that were on the site that have now been trucked off the site. Right now, we can't get that access." Kilsheimer has been a structural engineer for 63 years and investigated the 2018 Florida International University pedestrian bridge collapse that resulted in six deaths, as well as the 2012 Miami Dade College parking garage collapse that killed four people.after the 9/11 attack. Never before, he said, has he ever faced such restrictions as he has in Surfside.
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