Surfside: Florida officials are working on plans to knock down what is left of a seafruit condominium building in part after concern about the instability of the structure requested to stop 15 hours to seek victims.
After rescuing efforts on Thursday night, officials said they had begun to plan the possibility of dismantling the remaining structures even when searchers continued to comb the pile of debris below.
Scott Nacheman, a FEMA structure specialist, said the engineers saw different methods for demolition and how to continue “to make secure sites for ongoing rescue operations.” Nacheman said that if the building dropped, at first it would be a slowdown in rescue operations.
But he said the demolition of the structure would create a safer work environment that could allow more personnel on the site and speed up the pace of work.
He said it would be like weeks before officials scheduled demolition.
On Friday morning, around a dozen workers can be seen digging through a stack that now reaches around 20 feet (6 meters), more than 10 feet (3 meters) less than a week ago.
Crane again lifts heavy objects from the stack and then the worker will go up to the stack and start removing smaller debris by hand.
Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said the decision on demolition needs to be made “very careful and methodical,” given the potential impact on the pile of debris and effects on the search.
Rescue work was stopped Thursday morning after the crew watched the widening of the crack and to the foot of the movement in the large column.
Work continued shortly before 5 P.M.
After the site was evaluated by structural engineers, Cava said, describing firefighters as “really, really excited there.” “We will continue to search in a hurry, as we have done along the part of the collapse we currently have access,” he said.
Termination of work has threatened dim expectations to find anyone who lives in debris a week after the tower drops.
The Mayor of Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett said it was worried about “minutes and clock material, life was at stake.” Temporary cessation for rescue operations took place on the same day as President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden visited the destroyed community.
The collapse of the 12th floor of the Champlain Tower of South Condominium killed at least 18 people and left 145 missing.
No one was saved since the first hour after collapsing.
“This is life and death,” Biden said during a briefing.
“We can do it, only simple actions everyone who does what needs to be done, make a difference.” “There will be a lot of pain and anxiety and suffering and even the need for psychological assistance in the days and months that follow,” he said.
“So, we are not everywhere.” Peter Milian was a cousin of Marcus Guara, who died with his wife, Aneely Rodriguez, and their two children, 10-year-old Lucia Guara and Emma Guara aged 4 years.
Milian said he understood why the rescue work had to be suspended.
“I mean, they have done everything they can.
But we believe in the people on the ground.
And obviously, they have to do their best for their people, right? Because it is a dangerous situation,” he said.
During a private meeting with family members, Biden took his own experience with sadness to try to comfort them.
Biden lost his first wife and baby girl in a car accident and a few decades then lost a adult son with brain cancer.
“I just hope there is something I can do to alleviate pain,” he said in the video posted on Instagram by Jacqueline Patoka, a woman who was close to their spouse and daughter who was still missing.
Biden talks about wanting to switch places with missing or missing people.
“Waiting, waiting is unbearable,” he said.
Causes of collapse are being investigated.
The 2018 engineering report found that the building’s ground floor deck of the building rested on a concrete plate which had a “main structural damage” and needed broad repairs.
The report also found “abundant cracking” concrete columns, beams, and walls in the parking garage.
Only two months before the building fell, the President of the Council wrote to residents who said that the structural problems identified in the 2018 inspection had been “worse” and that major improvements would cost at least $ 15.5 million.
With an offer for the work that was still delayed, the building suddenly collapsed last Thursday.
Florida condominium buildings that collapse likely to be destroyed
