Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Miami-Dade, FL collapsed 2021 June 24

“As I moved closer, I could hear somebody making noise and yelling. I started to get close to the building and climbed into the debris, and I could hear him saying that he was over there, and I could see his arm sticking up through the debris and waving his hand,” Nicholas Balboa, a man from Phoenix, told CNBC’s “The News with Shepard Smith” on Thursday night.

“He was just saying, ‘Please don’t leave me, please don’t leave me.’ I told him that we weren’t going to leave him,” Balboa said. “It was myself and one other person. So, we were there and we just felt like we could get to him. It didn’t feel right to just leave him, especially hearing that his voice was just so young.”

Balboa was in Surfside, Florida, to visit his father when Champlain Towers South building crumbled early Thursday. According to NBC News, authorities were called about the collapse around 1:30 a.m. ET

Florida building collapse: Eyewitness describes how he helped save young boy from rubble

A man who witnessed the harrowing collapse of a 12-story oceanfront condo tower outside Miami helped save a young boy who was stuck in the debris.

www.cnbc.com

 

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[Mel70]

Does anyone else see a problem with that building?

Live Nation L.A. Executive’s Body Identified As Victim of Florida Condo Collapse

Theresa Velasquez was a Los Angeles-based executive for the Live Nation event promotion company.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

 

[kdg411]

Does anyone else see a problem with that building?

Live Nation L.A. Executive’s Body Identified As Victim of Florida Condo Collapse

Theresa Velasquez was a Los Angeles-based executive for the Live Nation event promotion company.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

No, it's the camera angle.

 

[daisy7]

SURFSIDE, Fla. – Disturbing reports are emerging of a hacker taking advantage of those who were killed in the partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium building in Surfside.

Officials said the criminal is seeing the victims’ names in the news and then stealing their identities.

Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett told Local 10 News that he is astonished and hopes that an arrest is soon made.

“(They) violated the rights of an individual, but worse than that, a deceased individual and a family that is grieving,” he said.

Officials: Hacker stole identities of multiple victims killed in Surfside condo collapse

Disturbing reports are emerging of a hacker taking advantage of those who were killed in the partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium building in Surfside.

www.local10.com

How horrible!!

 

[Mel70]

SURFSIDE, Fla. – Disturbing reports are emerging of a hacker taking advantage of those who were killed in the partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium building in Surfside.

Officials said the criminal is seeing the victims’ names in the news and then stealing their identities.

Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett told Local 10 News that he is astonished and hopes that an arrest is soon made.

“(They) violated the rights of an individual, but worse than that, a deceased individual and a family that is grieving,” he said.

Officials: Hacker stole identities of multiple victims killed in Surfside condo collapse

Disturbing reports are emerging of a hacker taking advantage of those who were killed in the partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium building in Surfside.

www.local10.com

How horrible!!

Some people are so evil.

 

[Mel70]

No, it's the camera angle.

I thought it had to be something I just couldn't see it. I really tried too. Smh.

 

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[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Last I heard, they were still waiting to officially identify 2 people (but I think 1 was identified today) with possibly 1 still missing.

Found this link pretty interesting. They go floor by floor and say who was there, where they were when the collapse occurred, etc. Lots of empty units (and a few obviously rescued alive)!

Where victims were in Champlain Towers South before horror collapse

DailyMail.com has compiled floorplans of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida, showing where many victims lay sleeping in their homes when the tower fell.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

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[kdg411]

We believe there are two victims not yet identified.

Surfside condo collapse: Montreal woman came for vacation with friend who was visiting father

Two best friends from college take a trip to Surfside from Montreal to visit one of the girls' parents. Anastasia Gromova is the latest victim to be identified in the tragic collapse of the Champlain Towers South.

www.local10.com

 

[kdg411]

Estelle Hedaya still unidentified

 

[kdg411]

Linda March still unidentified

 

[kdg411]

The 97th victim was identified as 58-year-old Linda March. The county said it believes there is still one victim not yet identified.

Surfside victims will not be asked to donate their real estate for the public good, judge says | CNN

As the search winds down and the survivors of the Surfside condo building collapse begin to pick up the pieces of their lives, a judge said Wednesday they and the families of the deceased will not be asked to donate their property.

www.cnn.com

*(If anyone is following, Linda March was renting the penthouse & had just moved to FL from NY. The images first released that showed bunkbeds on the top floor was her unit.

IIRC, the last to be identified is another woman who had recently moved from NY to FL named Estelle.)

 

[kdg411]

Surfside collapse response dog Teddy now unable to walk, needs help

“I’m scared of him not being able to walk again,” owner Sophia Barrett said of the 6-year-old dog, who may have a herniated disc and torn knee ligaments after three weeks of non-stop caregiving.…

nypost.com

 

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The agonizing wait for the family of the presumed last missing Surfside victim | CNN

One day before the somber one-month anniversary of the Surfside condo collapse, the family of Estelle Hedaya told CNN she is the final victim that authorities have yet to find and identify.

www.cnn.com

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Is she not yet identified, or is she still missing? "Have yet to find" and "not yet identified" are both used in the article. The searching seems complete so I assume she's been located and not identified, or else they're in for some trouble. But just about every article or tweet I've seen use terms for both missing and unidentified.

https://www.wnct.com/news/national/brother-of-miami-condo-victim-heartbroken-but-not-hopeless/

 

[kdg411]

Is she not yet identified, or is she still missing? "Have yet to find" and "not yet identified" are both used in the article. The searching seems complete so I assume she's been located and not identified, or else they're in for some trouble. But just about every article or tweet I've seen use terms for both missing and unidentified.

https://www.wnct.com/news/national/brother-of-miami-condo-victim-heartbroken-but-not-hopeless/

Her remains 'may' have been recovered however the coroner is having a difficult time extracting dna from them.

 

[Guess Who]

Her remains 'may' have been recovered however the coroner is having a difficult time extracting dna from them.

That's how I see it.

 

[kdg411]

More pics from the site

 

[Guess Who]

98th and final missing person recovered, identified in Florida partial building collapse

The dangerous, nearly nonstop multi-agency search led to an incremental rise in a death toll that officials would first share with victims' families and then with the press twice a day for almost three weeks.

www.nbcnews.com