Friday, March 29, 2024

Tag: Surfside

Searchers At Collapse Site ‘Not Seeing Anything Positive’

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SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — Officials overseeing the search at the site of the Florida condominium collapse seemed increasingly somber Tuesday about the prospects for finding anyone alive, saying they have ...

WATCH: Surfside Rabbi and Rebbetzin Share Their Thoughts On The Condominium Collapse

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SURFSIDE - Chani Lipskar is the Rebbetzin and co-founder of The Shul of Bal Harbour, together with her husband Rabbi Sholom B. Lipskar, emissaries for the Lubavitcher Rebbe giving an in depth intervie...

Florida Collapse Victims To Be Buried Today in Queens

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SURFSIDE (CHABAD.org/Rochel Horowitz) Modest and dignified, Tzvi and Itty Ainsworth were beloved by all who knew them, and were noted for their generous hospitality and devotion towards helping others...

Building Collapse Lawsuits Seek To Get Answers, Assign Blame

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SURFSIDE (AP)- Even as the search continues over a week later for signs of life in the mangled debris of the fallen Champlain Towers South, the process of seeking answers about why it happened and who...

Official: 4 More Victims Found In Rubble; Death Toll At 32

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SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — A fire official says four more victims have been found in the rubble of a collapsed condominium building in Florida, bringing the death toll to 32. Miami-Dade Assistant Fire C...

Identifying The Remains A Burdensome Task In Condo Collapse

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MIAMI (AP) — As crews peel away layer after layer of the collapsed condo tower in South Florida, the death toll increases — and so does the burden of collecting and identifying the dead, as rescuers a...

Fire Official: Three Found Dead In Condo Rubble In Resumed Search After Demolition; Death Toll Rises To 27

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SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — Fire official: Three found dead in condo rubble in resumed search after demolition; death toll rises to 27.

Search Back On After Rest Of South Florida Condo Demolished

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SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — Rescuers were given the all-clear to resume work looking for victims at a collapsed South Florida condo building after demolition crews set off a string of explosives that brough...

WATCH: Demolition Crews Set Off Explosives To Bring Down Rest Of Collapsed Florida Condo; Key To Resuming Search Of Rubble

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SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — Demolition crews have set off explosives to bring down the damaged remaining portion of a collapsed South Florida condo. The demolition Sunday night was key to resuming the se...

Florida Town Responds To Issue Of Delayed Building Repairs

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SURFSIDE (AP) — A Surfside, Florida, official pushed back Sunday on the idea that the town was responsible for slowing down a condo board’s plans to make needed structural repairs to a building that e...

Crews Nearly Done Drilling For Florida Condo Demolition

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SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — Demolition specialists carefully bored holes Sunday to insert explosive charges into the precarious, still-standing portion of a collapsed South Florida condo building that will ...

Counselors Work To Ease Grief Over Florida Building Collapse

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SURFSIDE (AP) - After Lauren Miller lost her father in January to COVID-19, her longtime friend Jay Kleiman advised her not to wallow in grief and to seek counseling to ease her pain. Now she finds...

Surfside:  The Halachic Lessons – UPDATED

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By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Everyone is deeply saddened by the events that have taken place at Champlain Towers.  And at the same time, everyone is inspired by the giving nature of the first r...

Sand Sculptor Hopes Beach Creation Honors Building Victims

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SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — Sweat poured from Isaac Meek early Friday as he finished his tribute to the lives lost in the Florida building collapse -- a 10-foot-long sand sculpture of a heart that he engrav...

Crews On Lookout For Pets In Florida Condo Building Collapse

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MIAMI (AP) — It was a small moment of hope amid all the pain and devastation: a cat on Saturday was seen wandering a lower floor of the remaining flank of a 12-story condominium complex that partly co...

Death Toll Rise to 24, Demolition Preparations Begin At Condo With Storm Looming

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SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — Rescuers suspended their search for the living and the dead in the rubble of a collapsed South Florida condo building Saturday to allow crews to start preparing the unstable rema...

Mayor: 2 More Bodies Have Been Pulled From The Collapsed Condominium Building In The Miami Area, Bringing The Toll To 22

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SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — Mayor: 2 more bodies have been pulled from the collapsed condominium building in the Miami area, bringing the toll to 22.

North Miami Beach City Orders Evacuation Of Condo Building Deemed Unsafe

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NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The city of North Miami Beach ordered the evacuation of a condominium building Friday after a review found unsafe conditions. The city said in a news release that an ...

Firefighter’s Daughter, 7, Found In Florida Condo Rubble

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SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — The body of a Miami firefighter's 7-year-old daughter was recovered from the site of a South Florida condo collapse by the search and rescue team he had been assisting, officials...

Collapsed Florida Condo Building Likely To Be Demolished

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SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — Florida officials are working on plans to tear down what’s left of a partially collapsed oceanfront condominium building after concerns about the structure’s instability prompted...