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The situation grew from shocking to incomprehensible overnight at the scene of the Surfside condo collapse. As the sun set on Thursday evening, 99 people were listed as missing in the Champlain Towers South condo collapse. There was some hope that number would decline as some unaccounted-for people were discovered not to have been in the building at the time of the disaster. As the day dawned on Friday, the exact opposite proved to be the case. Four people have…

A massive Surfside building collapse occurred in the early hours of Thursday morning, the residential structure located in a Miami Beach bedroom community. Very little information is yet available on everything from the case of the calamity and the number of casualties. What is known is that the collapse accurately can be described as a major catastrophe. As Thursday dawned along the Miami Beach area, rescue workers were working frantically to remove victims from the rubble of the apartment or…

99 people are unaccounted for 12 hours after a massive Miami condo building collapse that occurred during the early hours of Thursday morning. Within a short time following the yet-to-be-explained collapse of more than half of the 12-story residential structure in the Surfside community, about a dozen people were rushed to area hospitals where one person was pronounced dead. The Mayor of Surfside, Charles Burkett, described the deadly disaster as “the building is literally pancaked.” By that he means that…

New homes constructed along the Gulf coast as well as on the Atlantic shores of Florida, the Carolinas, and elsewhere, are being built “taller” to provide more resilient protection against storm surge. As a consequence, a significantly increasing number of people are having residential elevators installed in their homes. There is a noticeable downside to the marked increase in residential elevator installations. Unlike their commercial counterparts, residential elevators are subject to little or no regulation. As a consequence, there is…

In what is being described as a “freak” construction accident, a worker was trapped in a cement truck bucket on Wednesday, June 16, 2016. The worker suffered life-threatening injuries and was rushed to a nearby hospital. The construction accident occurred in Lakewood Township, New Jersey. The worker suffered severe injuries to his legs and feet. As of the day following the accident, not specific information is yet available as to how the unusual incident occurred in the first instance. An…