With “zero chance of survival,” the two-week old rescue effort now becomes a recovery one.
into a search-and-recovery operation at the Miami-area site. Officials have been able to confirm at least 70 currently unaccounted for people were in the building when it collapsed on June 24; as many as two dozen others are still missing and thought to have been inside the condo that night. On the final day of the search, additional bodies were found, bringing the confirmed death toll to 54, making the Champlain Tower collapse one of the deadliest structural collapses in U.S. history.
“At this point, we have truly exhausted every option available to us in the search-and-rescue mission,” Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cavaat a news conference. The search effort used rescue dogs and high tech listening devices and sensors to detect any movement, but workers have not recovered anyone alive in the wreckage since the first hours after the 12-story structure collapsed more than two weeks ago.
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