Miami building collapse leaves nearly 100 people missing as US rescuers search Surfside apartments
A 12-storey oceanfront apartment block in Florida has partially collapsed, killing at least one person, with dozens of rescuers combing the rubble for survivors.
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Online videos showed a large portion of the 12-storey building reduced to rubble
Emergency services sent dozens of response units to the scene, near to the local beach
Miami Beach Police Department said its officers were "assisting the Town of Surfside at a partial building collapse"
Nearly 100 people were still unaccounted for, authorities said, raising fears the death toll could climb sharply.
But officials did not know how many were in the tower when it fell about 1:30am on Thursday local time.
Joseph Waks, an Australian who has been living in the suburb of Surfside, just north of Miami Beach, for 12 years, said an Australian family lived in the building but he had not been able to locate them.
Video footage posted online showed a large portion of the building reduced to rubble, with apartments' interiors exposed.
Scores of rescue units rushed to the partially collapsed building and firefighters were seen pulling survivors from the concrete debris.
Rescue work continued all day Thursday and was expected to continue overnight.
Miami-Dade Police Director Freddy Ramirez told reporters that 99 people were unaccounted for and that 53 others whose whereabouts were initially unknown had since been located.
"Fire and rescue are in there with their search team, with their dogs. It's a very dangerous site right now. Very unstable," Director Ramirez said.
"They're in search-and-rescue mode, and they will be in that mode for a while. They are not quitting. They're going to work through the night. They are not stopping."
ABC
)Director Ramirez said the numbers of known casualties and people missing was likely to fluctuate.
"I don't want to set false expectations," he said. "This is a very tragic situation for those families and for the community."
A fire official earlier said dozens of people had been rescued.
Rescuers saved a mother and child, but the woman’s leg had to be amputated to remove her from the rubble, Frank Rollason, director of Miami-Dade Emergency Management, told the Miami Herald.
AFP: Joe Raedle
)Video also showed fire crews removing a boy from the wreckage.
Jenny Urgelles woke up to the news that her parents' building had collapsed. She called them, but both their phones went straight to voicemail, she told WSVN 7 News.
"I am holding on to hope. I'm very desperate to know what's happening," she said.
Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett warned during a news conference that the building manager told him the tower was quite full when it collapsed, and the death toll was likely to rise.
"The building is literally pancaked," Mr Burkett said.
"It looks like a bomb went off. But we're pretty sure a bomb didn't go off, so it's something else," he said.
"I've lived here my whole life and I've never seen anything like this happen."
Florida's Governor Ron DeSantis on Thursday afternoon made a state of emergency declaration, which means federal authorities can provide assistance for the families affected.
Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said she got a call from President Joe Biden, who promised to provide any federal aid that was requested.
Mr Biden approved an emergency declaration in the state of Florida and ordered federal assistance to supplement state and local response efforts.
"The President's action authorises the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to coordinate all disaster relief efforts," the White House said on Friday.
'It felt like an earthquake'
It was unclear how many people lived in the building or were inside at the time of the incident.
However, Mr DeSantis said officials were "bracing for some bad news just given the destruction that we're seeing".
AP: Wilfredo Lee
)Barry Cohen, 63, said he and his wife were asleep in the building when he heard what he thought was a crack of lightning.
The couple went onto their balcony, then opened the door to the building’s hallway to find "a pile of rubble and dust and smoke billowing around".
Santo Mejil, 50, told the Miami Herald his wife called him from the building, where she was working as an aide for an elderly woman.
"She said she heard a big explosion. It felt like an earthquake," Mr Mejil told the newspaper.
He said she later called him and said rescuers were bringing her down.
AP: Susan Stocker
)Officials said the building, built in 1981, was going through a recertification process requiring repairs and that another building was being newly constructed next door, although the cause of the collapse remained unclear.
On video footage captured from nearby, the centre of the building appeared to fall first, with a section nearest the ocean teetering and coming down seconds later as a huge dust cloud swallowed the neighbourhood.
The area is a mix of new and old apartments, houses, condominiums and hotels, with restaurants and stores serving an international combination of residents and tourists.
Reuters: Marco Bello
)The tower had a mix of seasonal and year-round residents, and while the building kept a log of guests, it did not keep track of when owners were in residence, Mr Burkett said.
A total of 22 South Americans were missing in the collapse — nine from Argentina, six from Paraguay, four from Venezuela and three from Uruguay, according to officials in those countries.
Among the Paraguayans were Sophia López Moreira, the sister of first lady Silvana Abdo, her husband Luis Pettengill, her three children and the family's assistant, the country's authorities said.
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What made these alarm bells go off inside of me was because while I was reading Friedman’s warning about these “gathering volcanic forces”, I received an urgent message about a NOTAM (Notice To Airmen) alert placing temporary flight restrictions around Gulkana-Alaska where the HAARP (short for High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program).facility is located, and which reads:
FDC 1/6022 ZAN AK..AIRSPACE
What makes this NOTAM so alarming is that the US Air Force notified the US Congress it was shutting HAARP down in 2014—was a shutdown preceded by the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declaring that HAARP was a tectonic weapon used to cause the catastrophic earthquake that destroyed Haiti—an accusation that was followed by President Chavez announcing he had cancer, and saw him dying of this disease on 5 March 2013.
With this NOTAM for HAARP being in force from 21-25 June, and based on my knowledge of what this facility is capable of, I can honestly tell you I wasn’t surprised this morning when I received another urgent message about a small seismic event that occurred in Miami-Florida—an urgent message that was followed by news reports saying that at about 1:20 a.m this early morning in Miami, witnesses reported “suddenly hearing what sounded like a tornado or earthquake”—reports that were soon followed by the news that a luxury multi-story at 8777 Collins Avenue had collapsed—and is a building one block away from where Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are leasing a condominium.
Was HAARP earthquake weapon activated (top photo NOTAM alert) to target Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner at their home in Miami-Florida (second photo), but missed and struck building one block away (bottom photo)?
In creating an INTREP about this event (and believe me, they’re already being compiled by intelligence agencies the world over), the historical context about HAARP, along with an assessment of its mysterious activities, most certainly leads to a valid theory being made that the daughter and son-in-law of President Donald Trump are being targeted for death—but most importantly for you to know, is only a theory, not a conclusion—and as such, when included in any INTREP, means only that this theory has some validity making it worthy of further investigation.
Of course, and as always, any such theory like this will be immediately appended by the word “conspiracy” by every leftist mainstream propaganda media outlet and official government statement—which makes it prescient that the Sorcha Faal sent us Sisters the following message yesterday:
“We live in a world today where you can access information from all over the world on a device that you can hold in your hand.
But, how good is that information?
If you spend any amount of time researching current events using any search application, you are already aware that entering a particular word or phrase can return multiple articles from apparently different news sources that are exactly the same.
Most of them do not even bother to change the title of the article, and even if they do, the content is the same - and therefore all of the news providers that are listed in your search results are obtaining their information from one single source.
In addition, the search engine that you are using is a very complex, scripted query generator that skews the list returned to you by parameters in the query program, which are inaccessible to you, that will exclude certain content from the search results, and prioritize the approved web sites presented in the results, and also file your identity and your query for future law enforcement use if it contains evidence of unapproved thought.
So, who exactly is making Fake News?
Is it us, who specifically state that we are a conspiracy theory site, provide our readers with articles that link to source and reference materials, and always expect our readers to make their own judgments on the material?
Or is it the establishment media, who bury inconvenient but true news, repeat stories that have been proven false, and use censorship to supress the "unapproved" feedback from their viewers?”
I have no doubt at all in my mind that New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman told the truth from his elite socialist pedestal that “volcanic forces are gathering”, which is why he warned his fellow comrades “We are living in a fool’s paradise…Enjoy it while it lasts”—a “fools paradise” that’s defined as a state of enjoyment based on false beliefs or hopes; a state of illusory happiness—and my two favorite quotes about come from famed British polymath Bertrand Russell, one of the early 20th Century's most prominent logicians who said: “Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness”, and English historian Thomas Fuller, who pointed out the truth that: “A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell”.
Finally for you to notice is that Friedman wouldn’t have sounded this warning unless he knew his side was losing this war—is a losing side becoming more desperate by the hour—and is losing because YOU continue to support us, and those like us, who keep searching for and revealing the truths being kept hidden—but whose cost to those of us dwindling few remaining in this fight are as staggering as they are crushing—which is why I’ll leave you today with the same words I imparted to you when we met last month, and are even more important for you to hear and heed right now:
In the coming months, the dimensions of this looming war are going to shift in radical and unforeseen ways—which is why we believe it is your right to know the full truth about what is happening—a truth the demonic enemies of humanity and our God are doing everything in their power to suppress—which is why our Dear Lord ordered us to band together in such times as these to protect one another—a protection we urgently need at this very moment to keep the truth flowing to you—and in aiding us, our Dear Lord has promised you: “Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”
With God,
Sister Ciara
24 June 2021
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