Resident of collapsed Florida building says he’s alive only because girlfriend persuaded him to stay with her
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Leo Souto adds flowers to a memorial near the partially collapsed building in Surfside, Florida, on Monday.
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People take part in a twilight vigil on the beach near the building on Monday.
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Search-and-rescue teams look for possible survivors on Monday.
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Members of the Legendarios, a men’s religious group, gather for a moment of prayer Saturday near the building site.
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A woman puts flowers in a barricade as she pays her respects near the building.
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Search-and-rescue workers work at the site on Sunday.
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Passersby look at photos of missing people.
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Workers search through the rubble on Saturday.
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Eliagne Sanchez and K. Parker lay flowers on the beach near the partially collapsed building.
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Smoke rises as rescuers continued to search for survivors on Saturday.
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People stand near the building on Friday.
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Mourners light candles on the beach near the building on Friday.
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Members of a search-and-rescue team work in the rubble.
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Leo Soto sets up a memorial site with photos of missing people from the complex. One of the missing people is his friend Nicole Langsfield.
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Firefighters battle a blaze at the collapse site.
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People pray together on the beach near the collapsed building.
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People hug Friday as they wait for news about their relatives at a community center in Surfside.
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Rescue personnel search through the building’s rubble on Friday.
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Toby Fried holds up a picture of her missing brother, Chaim Rosenberg, outside the Surfside Community Center on Friday.
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Rescue workers use a crane to inspect the damage on Friday.
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Ariana Hevia, center, stands with Sean Wilt near the partially collapsed building on Friday. Hevia’s mother, Cassandra Statton, lives in the building.
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Rescue workers arrive to the scene with dogs on Friday.
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People observe the building from the nearby beach.
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Faydah Bushnaq, center, is hugged by Maria Fernanda Martinez as they stand on the beach near the building. Bushnaq, who was vacationing in South Florida, stopped to write “pray for their souls” in the sand.
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The arm of an earth mover is seen during the search operations.
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Rescue personnel work at the site on Thursday.
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Yube Pettingill talks to the media. Two of her family members were still missing.
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This photo was tweeted by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue after the building collapsed on Thursday.
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Displaced residents are taken to a nearby hotel in Surfside.
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The partial collapse left huge piles of rubble and materials dangling from what remained of the structure.
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Firefighters use a ladder hose as smoke comes out of the rubble on Thursday.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, at center in the red tie, arrives to speak to the media on Thursday. “We still have hope to be able to identify additional survivors,” DeSantis told reporters near the scene. “The state of Florida, we’re offering any assistance that we can.”
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Debris dangles from the building on Thursday.
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People hug at a family reunification center where evacuees were staying in Surfside.
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The cause of the collapse wasn’t immediately known.
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Jennifer Carr sits with her daughter as they and other evacuees wait for news at the family reunification center in Surfside.
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Rescue personnel search through the rubble with dogs on Thursday.
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Police stand guard near the scene on Thursday.
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People on the beach look at the building after the partial collapse.
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The building was constructed in 1981, according to online Miami-Dade property records.
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People lie on cots at the family reunification center in Surfside.
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The beachfront community is a few miles north of Miami Beach.
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More than 80 rescue units responded to the scene, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said.
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Rescue personnel work at the site of the partial collapse.
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