Tag: Structural failures
Awaiting news, families of condo victims bond together
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — At the Seaview Hotel in Surfside, a vast and once impersonal ballroom has become a refuge — a shared space...
Review prompted by building collapse closes Miami courthouse
MIAMI — The Miami-Dade County Courthouse will begin undergoing repairs immediately after a review, prompted by the deadly collapse of a nearby condominium building,...
For Biden, politics are often framed by the personal
WILMINGTON, Del. — When grieving with those who lost loved ones in a building collapse, President Joe Biden invoked the car crash that claimed...
Bill aims to spend billions to fix nation’s aging dams
BOSTON — Lawmakers in Congress on Friday introduced a bill that would pump tens of billions of dollars into fixing and upgrading the country’s...
DeSantis parts with Trump in response to Surfside tragedy
SURFSIDE, Fla. — When the coronavirus ravaged Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis defiantly bucked mask mandates. He later cracked down on protesters advocating racial justice,...
Families, rescuers hold vigil near collapsed building
SURFSIDE, Fla. — Family members and rescue workers held a vigil Wednesday night near the site of a collapsed Florida condo building shortly after...
Tropical storm kills 1 in Florida, hurts 10 at Georgia base
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Tropical Storm Elsa carved a destructive and soaking path up the East Coast after killing at least one person in Florida...
Crane collapse in Philadelphia kills a man, injures another
PHILADELPHIA — A massive construction drill toppled over and crushed a man to death Tuesday night in Philadelphia, police said.
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Building collapse lawsuits seek to get answers, assign blame
Even as the search continues over a week later for signs of life in the mangled debris of the fallen Champlain Towers South, the...
Storm threat hangs over renewed search at Florida condo site
SURFSIDE, Fla. — A ramped-up rescue effort at the collapsed South Florida condo building faced new threats from the weather as a tropical storm...