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On June 24, 2021, at approximately 1:30 a.m. EDT, Champlain Towers South, a 12-story beachfront condominium building in the Miami suburb of Surfside, Florida, United States, partially collapsed.
The residential building, Champlain Towers South, is located at 8777 Collins Avenue (Florida State Road A1A). It was built in 1981 by a group of developers, Champlain Towers South Associates, and is part of a complex along with two other buildings, one built at the same time and called Champlain Towers North, and the other built between the North and South buildings in 1994 and called Champlain Towers East. All three are L-shaped structures with 12 stories, but as of 2021 the South building contained the most units at 136. The buildings are just north of North Beach Oceanside Park, which is located in Miami Beach's North Beach neighborhood.
The project was the first new construction in Surfside following a moratorium on new development imposed by Miami-Dade County due to water and sewer infrastructure problems in Surfside during the 1970s. The developers paid the city $200,000 in 1979 to fund the replacement of the sewer system and secure approval for the construction of the condos.
The Champlain Towers South building suffered a partial pancake collapse at about 1:30 a.m. EDT on June 24, 2021. Surveillance footage indicates that a large north-central section of the building collapsed first, which isolated a section at the northeast corner of the building; it collapsed approximately nine seconds later. Of the 136 units in the building, made up of one- to four-bedroom plans ranging in size from 1,200 to 4,500 sq ft (110 to 420 m2), 55 were destroyed in the collapse.
- Reference: Wikipedia
State of Recovery Efforts
Confirmed Casualties: 98
Identified: 98
List of Victims
What we know about the victims (ABC News)
- Stacie Fang, 54
- Antonio Lozano, 83
- Gladys Lozano, 79
- Manuel LaFont, 54
- Leon Oliwkowicz, 79
- Ruth (Christina Beatriz Elvira) Oliwkowicz, 74
- Anna Ortiz, 46
- Luis Bermudez, 26
- Marcos Joseph Guara, 52
- Frank Kleiman, 55
- Michael Altman, 50
- Hilda Noriega, 92
- Lucia Guara, 10
- Emma Guara, 4
- Anaely Rodriguez, 4
- Andreas Giannitsapoulos, 21
- Magaly Elena Delgado, 80
- David Epstein, 58
- Bonnie Epstein, 56
- Claudio Bonnefoy, 85
- Maria Obias-Bonnefoy, 69
- Gino Cattarossi, 89
- Graciela Cattarossi, 86
- Graciela Cattarossi, 48
- Stella Cattarossi, 7
- Andrea Cattarossi, 56
- Gonzalo Torres, 81
- Itty Ainsworth, 66
- Tzvi Doniel Ainsworth, 68
- Nancy Kress Levin, 76
- Jay Kleiman, 52
- Francis Fernandez Plasencia, 67
- Simon Segal, 80
- Elaine Sabino, 71
- Gary Cohen, 58
- Chaim (Harry) Rosenberg, 52
- Benny Weisz, 31
- Malki Weisz, 27
- Juan Alberto Mora Jr., 32
- Juan Alberto Mora Sr., 80
- Ana Mora, 70
- Ruslan Manashirov, 36
- Gloria Machado, 71
- Sophia López Moreira, 36
- Luis Pettengill, 36;
- Luis Lopez Moreira III, 3
- Leidy Vanessa Luna Villalba, 23
- Vishai Patel, 42
- Bhavna Patel, 36
- Aishani Gia Patel, 1
- Deborah Berezdivin, 21
- Ilan Naibryf, 21
- Nicole Langesfeld, 26
- Miguel Pazos, 55
- Richard Rovirosa, 60
- Maria Teresa Rovirosa, 58
- Oresme Gil Guerra, 60
- Elena Chavez, 87
- Elena Blasser, 64
- Marina Restrepo Azen, 76
- Richard Augustine, 77
- Maria Gabriela Camou, 64
- Edgar Gonzalez, 42
- Lorenzo De Oliveira Leone, 5
- Alfredo Leone, 48
- Alexia Maria Pettengill Lopez Moreira, 9
- Anna Sophia Pettengill Lopez Moreira, 6
- Luis Sadovnic, 28
- Maria Torre, 78
- Julio Cesar Velasquez, 66
- Angela Velasquez, 60
- Theresa Velasquez, 36
- Lisa Rosenberg, 27
- Arnold Notkin, 87
- Private, 81
- Judith Spiegel, 65
- Cassondra Billedeau Stratton, 40
- Fabian Nunez, 57
- Catalina Gomez Ramirez, 45
- Andres Levine, 26
- Moises Rodan, 28
- Mercedes Fuentes Urgelles, 61
- Raymond Urgelles, 61
- Luis F. Barth Tobar, 51
Notable Figures
- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, 46th Governor of Florida
- Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Sarah Levine Cava
- Miami-Dade County Fire Chief Alan Cominsky
- Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett
- Israeli Col. Golan Vach