Explosives were set off Sunday night to bring down the rest of Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Fla. The controlled demolition provides more room for search-and-rescue crews to look for survivors as Tropical Storm Elsa heads toward Florida. Photo: Lynne Sladky/AP SURFSIDE, Fla.—A task force has been created to investigate Florida’s laws surrounding condominiums and…
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'It takes a tragedy': Florida's hands-off approach to condo regulations tested after Surfside
Except for a brief window that lasted barely two years, the state has had no oversight of the condition of aging condominium buildings in nearly 60 years of condo construction in the Sunshine State. No post-construction inspection requirements. No enforcement measures to repair potentially life-threatening structural damage. No requirement to maintain a contingency fund for…
Death toll rises to 22 in Florida condo collapse; another Florida condo building deemed unsafe, evacuation ordered
SURFSIDE, Fla. — Crews looking for survivors in the rubble of a condo that collapsed outside Miami last week found more bodies on Friday, raising the number of confirmed deaths to 22 as 126 people remain missing. Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said she has signed off on the demolition of the part of the…
LET’S NOT FOCUS ON BLAME – AND FOCUS ON CHANGE INSTEAD
As they say…hindsight is 20/20. The tragedy in Surfside rips your guts out. I had to go there and see it for myself. I did. I then walked over to the memorial and saw pictures of the victims, including little kids, entire families and you wonder how anything like this could have possibly happened. Immediately…