Major of Miami-Dade Daniella Levine Cava reports that an additional victim was found in the rubble of an overthrown condo building in Florida.
The new discovery brought the death to 12 people, 149 of whom were still unreported.
Elected officials promised Tuesday to undertake several inquiries into the collapse of a Florida condo tower across the sea and pledge to convene a grand jury and to closely look “at every point of view” to prevent such a catastrophic failure of any other building.
County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said she and the employees will meet in order to examine the problems of building security and develop recommendations with engineering, building and geology experts, among others.
Mayor Daniella Levine Cava from Miami-Dade County said she will meet with, among other things, engineering, building and geology experts to review building safety issues and develop guidelines “to ensure that such an event never occurs, never again.”
Katherine Fernández Rundle, State Attorney, said she would conduct an investigation by the Grand Jury to examine the factors and decisions leading to a collapse Thursday of the 12-story Champlain Towers South in Surfside. At least 11 people were killed in the disaster and 150 were unreported.
While officials were looking to the future to see the cause of the collapse, they were determined to continue their efforts to search for survivors.
On the sixth day of his painstaking search, Governor Ron DeSantis recalled a famous military commitment not to leave anybody on the fighting ground but to do the same thing with those missing from the scrap.
“The way I look at it, as an old Navy guy, is when somebody is missing in action, in the military, you’re missing until you’re found. We don’t stop the search,” DeSantis said at a news conference.
“I think that’s what is happening. Those first responders are breaking their backs trying to find anybody they can. I think they are going to continue to do that. They’ve been very selfless. They’ve put themselves at risk to do it.”
The case of a female found live seventeen days after an apparel mill collapsed in 2013 and kill more than 1,000 people in Bangladesh, Dhaka, was referred to by Surf Mayor Charles Burgett.
“Nobody here gives up hope. Our goal is to get everybody out of the pile of rubble,” said Burkett.
The White House also announced on Tuesday that on Thursday President Joe Biden and the first lady Jill Biden would visit Surfside.
The 26-year-old Nicole Langesfield’s sister, Martin Langesfeld, was also hoping that there would still be survivors.
“It is not in this that we are alone. There is hope. There is hope. Miracles do happen, I truly believe. Such things have happened worldwide,” he said on the beach next to the collapsed building during a watch on Monday night.
The collapse has taken into account the safety of older buildings in South Florida. Cava has ordered a 30-day audit on the requirement for the recertification of its structural integrity for buildings of 40 years old or older, and to deal with any issues raised by inspections.
The Mayor said on Tuesday that “building inspection must be closed at once due to security concerns” four balconies have been found in one building in Miami-Dade County.
Other major disasters such as the collapse in Florida International University of a foot bridge in 2018, which killed six people, have been examined by previous grand juries in South Florida. The inquiry is still under way.
In such cases, criminal charges may be filed, such as the third-degree felony murder and manslaughter charges filed in the 1996 crash of ValuJet Flight 592 in the Everglades, which killed 110 people.
