4 Dead, More Than 150 Unaccounted For After Miami Building Collapse
Summary from the AllSides News Team
A 12-story Florida building partially collapsed Thursday, killing at least four peeople and injuring at least 11. 159 people remain unaccounted for as of Friday morning. Authorities responded to a call about the Surfside, Fla. condo building's collapse at 1:30 a.m., according to authorities at Miami-Dade Fire Rescue. 7 News obtained a video from the moment the building collapsed. "The building is literally pancaked,” Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett said Thursday. "That is heartbreaking because it doesn’t mean to me that we are going to be as successful as we wanted to be in finding people alive.” Authorities say they do not know how many people were in the building when it collapsed. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis visited the site Thursday, joining Cava in declaring a state of emergency in Miami-Dade County. DeSantis said engineers have begun investigating the building's collapse, but that "we won't have the answers immediately." President Joe Biden said Thursday that the White House was "ready to move federal resources immediately if, in fact, we're asked for it."
The building's collapse was widely covered across the political spectrum. Some outlets featured those who helped out in the aftermath of the disaster, such as members of the Miami Heat basketball team, who brought supplies for first responders as they searched for survivors at the scene. Other local outlets suggested ways to aid the community. Some on the right highlighted the fact that Biden's remarks about Florida were apparently prompted by a reminder from Vice President Kamala Harris. Updated 6/25/21 at 8:31 a.m. ET
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From the Left
99 missing, 10 hurt and 1 dead in high-rise collapse near Miami Beach, officials say
Nearly 100 people were unaccounted for Thursday after a high-rise condo building partially collapsed near Miami Beach, leaving at least one person dead and 10 injured, officials said.
Authorities got a call about the collapse at the 12-story building in Surfside, a town in Florida's Miami-Dade County, around 1:30 a.m. ET, officials said.
Raide Jadallah, the assistant chief of operations for Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, said that of the building's 136 units, 55 in the northeast corridor collapsed.
From the Center
What We Know About the Building Collapse in Surfside, Fla.
A portion of a condo tower in the Miami-area beachfront town of Surfside, Fla., collapsed. Rescue authorities responded to a call at about 1:30 a.m. Thursday and found the northeast section of the 12-story, 136-unit Champlain Towers South building had collapsed, said Ray Jadallah, chief of operations at Miami-Dade Fire Rescue.
Officials said it was too soon to determine the cause of the collapse. “Buildings just don’t fall down in America, they just don’t,” said Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett in an interview.
The scene was otherworldly, with couches, bunk beds and mangled...
From the Right
Surfside, Florida apartment building collapse leaves 1 dead, 99 unaccounted for
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday declared a state of emergency in Miami-Dade County after the Champlain Towers South apartment building collapsed in Surfside.
County Mayor Daniella Levine had also declared a state of emergency and asked the governor do the same in order to receive streamlined state resources for the recovery effort, which was still underway as of Thursday evening, hours after the collapse.
President Biden also said earlier in the day that the federal government and FEMA were prepared to provide further assistance once DeSantis formally declared the emergency.
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