Interior Footage Caught The Collapse Of The Condo Building In Florida – Multiple Casualties Reported (Videos)

One person has died and at least eight are injured after the partial collapse of a residential building near Miami, Florida.

Search and rescue efforts are continuing, with firefighters searching what remains of the building.

The collapse happened just before 1:30 a.m. Thursday at the Champlain Towers South condo on Collins Avenue in Surfside, north of Miami.

An aerial-platform is used by firefighters to rescue individuals that are trapped on their balconies.

Video below:

Firefighters are seen pulling a boy from the rubble.

An interview with a resident who lives on the first floor of the condo that’s partially collapsed:

Here’s the moment when the building collapsed in Surfside, Florida:

Interior footage caught the collapse of building:

Pairing the witness interview with the interior footage, you can see how in the first few seconds it goes from dry to leaking water with some furniture having shifted (notice the mattresses leaning on the left?); which must have been the first collapse he speaks of.

Images below:

Sounds to me like it was entirely a massive structural failure of sorts, from the various witness statements.

Surfside, FL, Mayor Charles W. Burkett on the overnight 12-story condo collapse:

“The problem is the building has literally pancaked … It’s heartbreaking because it doesn’t mean, to me, that we’re going to be successful, as successful as we want to be, to find people alive.”

More from Surfside, FL, Mayor Charles W. Burkett:

“There’s no reason for this building to go down like that unless someone literally pulls out the supports from underneath, or they get washed out or there’s a sinkhole …”

“It’s less likely than a lightning strike. It just doesn’t happen. You don’t see buildings falling down in America, and here we had a building literally falling down.”

— Surfside, FL, Mayor Charles W. Burkett on overnight condo collapse

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