Tag: Building collapses
208 years for Mexican expert over quake-collapsed school
MEXICO CITY — A judge sentenced a Mexican building expert to 208 years in prison Wednesday for signing off on defective remodeling work blamed...
Recovery effort at collapsed building could end soon
SURFSIDE, Fla. — The recovery efforts for a South Florida condo building that collapsed last month might be coming to an end soon.
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Searchers recover personal possessions from collapse rubble
SURFSIDE, Fla. — When the body of 4-year-old Emma Guara was pulled from the rubble of last month's Florida condominium collapse, she was wearing...
Death toll in Florida condo building collapse rises to 95
SURFSIDE, Fla. — The death toll in the Miami-area condominium building collapse climbed to 95 on Tuesday as crews worked for a 20th day...
Condo collapse victim fought at failed Bay of Pigs invasion
Sixty years before Juan Mora’s Florida condo building came crashing down, killing him and at least 89 others, he was among hundreds of Cuban...
Officials across Florida rethink condo inspection polices
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Across Florida, people living in the thousands of condominiums rising above the state’s 1,350 miles of coastline wonder if the building...
Israeli search team heads home weeks after condo collapse
SURFSIDE, Fla. — An Israeli search and rescue team that arrived in South Florida shortly after the Champlain Towers South collapsed last month was...
Search at collapse site revives memories of past tragedies
SURFSIDE, Fla. — The mangled concrete and twisted rebar from the collapsed high-rise near Miami triggered flashbacks for retired Oklahoma City Fire Chief Greg...
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...
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...