In pictures: Deadly condo collapse
Karol Casper places a flower on a memorial wall set up near Champlain Towers South on Sunday, July 4.
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Updated 6:36 PM ET, Sun July 4, 2021
Karol Casper places a flower on a memorial wall set up near Champlain Towers South on Sunday, July 4.
Seth Harrison/USA Today Network
A 12-story residential building partially collapsed in the South Florida community of Surfside on June 24.
Search-and-rescue teams have been sifting through the rubble at Champlain Towers South, which is a few miles north of Miami Beach. A side of the building crashed to the ground, leaving huge piles of debris.
“This is a horrific catastrophe. In the United States, buildings just don’t fall down,” Surfside Mayor Charles W. Burkett said.
The cause of the collapse is still unknown. A 2018 report raised concerns about structural damage, and a letter sent months before the collapse warned that damage to the building was accelerating.
