At least one person is dead after a condominium near Miami collapsed early Thursday morning.
Locals said it sounded like an earthquake.
The sea-view side of a beachfront condo tower collapsed in the town of Surfside north of Miami Beach.
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A wing of a 12-story beachfront condo building has collapsed in a town outside Miami, killing at least one person while trapping residents in rubble and twisted metal. A fire official says 35 people were pulled from the collapsed building. https://t.co/qUbbChjkj5
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 24, 2021
The building is 12 stories tall and there are 130 units in the building.
40 or 50 units may have been affected by the collapse.
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It looks like a bomb went off.
“It looks like a bomb went off.”
Charles Burkett, mayor of Surfside, Florida, joins us to talk about the partial collapse of a condo building near Miami Beach and the rescue efforts underway. “This is a catastrophic failure of that building,” Burkett says. pic.twitter.com/4xlVuj80bm
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) June 24, 2021