‘Tragedy beyond tragedy’: Champlain Towers South was a catastrophe in slow motion – CNN

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(CNN)Sara Nir was up late, checking her email when she heard knocking sounds that went from a soft tapping to hard pounding to a frightful crash overhead — as if a wall had collapsed in the unit above her ground-floor condo. 

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Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava delivers a speech during a rescue operation of the partially collapsed Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida on June 29, 2021. Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava delivers a speech during a rescue operation of the partially collapsed Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida on June 29, 2021.
A woman prays in front of photos at the makeshift memorial for the victims of the building collapse, near the site of the accident in Surfside, Florida on June 27, 2021. A woman prays in front of photos at the makeshift memorial for the victims of the building collapse, near the site of the accident in Surfside, Florida on June 27, 2021.
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Families of the missing wait near site of Florida condo collapseFamilies of the missing wait near site of Florida condo collapse
Families of the missing wait near site of Florida condo collapse

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A newly obtained 2018 photograph shows the earlier stages of a crack in the concrete of the pool equipment room in the Surfside, Florida, building that collapsed. The 2018 photograph, shared with CNN by Tom Henz, a mechanical engineer whose firm did an electrical and mechanical inspection of the Champlain Towers South building that year as part of its 40-year recertification process, shows a crack around the edge of a beam running along the top of the room. A newly obtained 2018 photograph shows the earlier stages of a crack in the concrete of the pool equipment room in the Surfside, Florida, building that collapsed. The 2018 photograph, shared with CNN by Tom Henz, a mechanical engineer whose firm did an electrical and mechanical inspection of the Champlain Towers South building that year as part of its 40-year recertification process, shows a crack around the edge of a beam running along the top of the room.
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People join together in a community twilight vigil on the beach for those lost and missing during the partially collapsed Champlain Towers South condo building on June 28, 2021 in Surfside, Florida. People join together in a community twilight vigil on the beach for those lost and missing during the partially collapsed Champlain Towers South condo building on June 28, 2021 in Surfside, Florida.

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    Source Article from https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/03/us/surfside-condo-collapse-questions-unanswered-invs/index.html

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