Search continues as Miami death toll hits 46
THE search for victims of the collapse of a Miami-area high-rise condominium reached its 14th day on Wednesday, with the death toll at 46, scores still unaccounted for and authorities sounding more and more grim.
Miami-Dade assistant fire chief Raide Jadallah told family members in a private briefing that workers had pulled 10 more bodies and additional human remains from the rubble, raising the death toll.
Crews “did some significant removal of the pile”, he said.
“They were able to get down to various areas to inspect.”
Workers on Tuesday dug through pulverised concrete where the Champlain Towers South building in Surfside once stood, filling buckets that were passed down a line to be emptied and then returned.
The up-close look at the search, in a video released Tuesday by the Miami-Dade County Fire Rescue Department, came as eight more deaths were announced, the most for a single day since the search began.
“Right now, we’re in search and rescue mode,” the county’s police director, Freddy Ramirez, said at a news conference.