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BREAKING: Condo hi-rise collapses
in Miami, "potential for devastating
loss of human life"

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Posted By: mc squared, 6/24/2021 9:53:12 AM

“It’s rubble,” NBC News reporter Sam Brock described the quadrant of the building in a Miami suburb that collapsed in the early-morning hours. Surfside mayor Charles Burkett told NBC later that the 12-story building “pancaked” as it went down. No one’s sure how many people were in the units that got destroyed, but everyone’s sure the number is higher than the one confirmed death so far: A massive search and rescue effort was underway Thursday outside Miami after a 12-story, oceanside condo building partially collapsed into a mammoth pile of rubble leaving at least one person dead, authorities said. Miami-

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Mayor Bucket ruled out a bomb. Just your ordinary building collapse.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: PChristopher 6/24/2021 10:00:56 AM (No. 825043)
Horrible. It looked like something happened in the first column bay on the inside of the 'L' and it progressively pulled the rest of it down with it. The outer point on the 'L' had nothing to brace it, so it toppled last. That boy who survived has got to be the luckiest person on the face of this planet! Dear God have mercy on those poor souls who weren't so lucky!
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Reply 2 - Posted by: voxpopuli 6/24/2021 10:15:47 AM (No. 825058)
next? BREAKING NEWS! "Biden says building collapse due to White Supremacy! TWO TRILLION NEEDED IMMEDIATELY"
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Son of Grady 6/24/2021 10:41:52 AM (No. 825079)
In a world of hundreds of cameras per block it may be telling to how many videos and images the public are allowed to see. No videos will be suspicious.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: CaptainLibra 6/24/2021 11:14:03 AM (No. 825123)
Change the headline to read "... potential for devastating law suits ..."
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Reply 5 - Posted by: earlybird 6/24/2021 11:14:28 AM (No. 825124)
Someone reported hearing an explosion. Surveillance video showed it pancaked. Did someone have a meth lab in a kitchen on one of the middle floors?
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Marzipan4 6/24/2021 11:23:35 AM (No. 825141)
Hugs and condolences to all effected. How terrifying
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Reply 7 - Posted by: DVC 6/24/2021 12:54:59 PM (No. 825237)
It would be extremely difficult to do this on purpose without a HUGE explosion, or by controlled demolition. As a structural engineering, I have watched shows on controlled building demolition (we've all seen the videos) with fascination. Taking down buildings of this type by pros took strategic sawing of many key supports with diamond concrete saws, and then demolition charges blowing the remaining columns. Clearly that is pretty unlikely to have gone on unobserved, easy to guess this is extremely unlikely. Quick structural engineer guess......sinkhole dropped out a big piece of foundation, or construction was unsafe, bad design or shoddy construction. Lots of sinkholes in Florida, and sometimes they just open up. Sometimes a bad design can slip through or possibly fraud in the construction process. Understrength concrete and shorted reinforcing bars would normally be caught by inspectors testing concrete samples and verifying rebar size and numbers prior to pours. Bribery can bypass the safety standards. I'm sure that DeSantis will be all over this, and we'll find out what happened.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: TXknitter 6/24/2021 3:51:35 PM (No. 825399)
Thanks #7, it was great to get your expertise on questions most of us have been asking the last few hours. My first thought after watching video was the movie The Towering Inferno. Do you remember the builder had cut many safety corners to save money on construction costs? I wonder.
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