Surfside: Fourteen days after the seafront condo tower collapsed right north of Miami, the savior said their mission no longer saved, but had shifted to recovery.
No victims.
“My sister and brother-in-law – are – being in the building now,” said Martin Langesfeld, talking on an impromptu warning at the end of Wednesday nights a few hundred meters from the rubble-debris-debris defeated.
Langesfeld, 23, said he still could not put his emotions into words.
He looked confused that he would be there, standing in front of a pile of debris, talking about his newly married sister, Nicole, buried underneath.
How could this happen? “I want to really say thank you,” Langesfeld said, looking into the eyes of the search team and rescue team standing a few meters, which was praised to put “blood, heart and their soul” to try to find his sister alive.
, “We don’t get the results we want,” he continued.
“But we are indeed families.” For Langesfeld and so many other members of the victim’s family on Wednesday were a brutal day to make peace with the fate of unexpected people.
There will be no miracle victims drawn from the Towers Champlain South, which collapsed on June 24, burying many people.
So far, the authorities say they have restored 54 bodies.
86 others remain lost and afraid of death.
There was no direct explanation for the collapse of the building, although investigations focused on the 2018 engineering report that warned structural deficiency.
The building fell so strong that the savior could not find “emptiness” or bags where people could survive for days – as happened in several other cases throughout the world, where the structure was cut down by earthquakes or storms.
The fire officer said on Wednesday that one part on the north side of the building collapsed to see four floors – usually representing at least 40 feet of vertical space – pancakes into only three feet, destroying everyone and everything in between.
Never have a rescue dog sounding a warning that a survivor is under a stack of concrete and massive rebar.
Not even once, the fire department said on Wednesday, had sensitive equipment that detected signs of life.
It fell on Ray Jadallah, assistant head of the API Miami-Dade, to explain to the family during Wednesday afternoon meeting that there was no realistic hope to seek victims.
When the schedule spoke to the family, he stressed that the greatest treatment would be taken by those who worked on the site to gently find all human remains.
He said his team’s mission was to reunite everyone with their family members under the rubble so they could find peace and closure.
“I assured them that only because we turned to a search and recovery, it didn’t always mean that the truck left, that everyone left and everyone forgot the family,” he said.
All search and rescue operators who work on the site leave Rubble Wednesday night and gather together for a moment of silence.
Those who gathered looked exhausted.
Some tear tears or betray emotions.
They stared firmly in a concrete stack and turned rebar before them, appeared ready to return to work.
The search team members and rescuers gathered for prayer and silence next to the tower that collapsed.
(AP) Mayor of Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett said the shift operation to one of the recovery was “body blow” for all involved.
Still, in his sadness, he could not help himself but betrayed the flicker urinating hope.
“Nobody knows for sure, with absolute certainty, that no one is waiting to get out of the stack,” he said, looking at the debris.
“I think everyone here believes it too.”