Apartment building near Miami partially collapses, emergency crews at scene

[Nyte_Byrd]

Apartment building near Miami partially collapses, emergency crews at scene

Surfside police told Fox News it is unclear how many people were inside the building at the time, but a firefighter on the scene could be heard saying there are multiple casualties.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/surfside-flo ... s-at-scene
 

[flaokie]

"The building is one block away from where Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are leasing a condominium, according to The Wall Street Journal."

Now we know who caused this disaster.
 
 

[NCGal63]

Right now Fox is reporting 51 people unaccounted for.
This is unreal, as a person who works for a general contractor - this is a contractor's nightmare. 
I sure hope the contractors where not trying to cut corners and put people's lives at risk.
 

[Canis Minor]

While there's a lot of coverage on this tragedy, no one seems to have any idea *why* this building collapsed. This is just plain awful. 
 

[ironhorsedriver]

Been reading some reports that they are leaning toward a sink hole. Pictures of the building don't show enough debris above ground. Also, pictures of the columns that still stand, show a dramatic drop from ground level,

[Canis Minor]

Been reading some reports that they are leaning toward a sink hole. Pictures of the building don't show enough debris above ground. Also, pictures of the columns that still stand, show a dramatic drop from ground level,

 

A possible sink hole makes a great deal of sense. So far I haven't heard any other hypotheses regarding the cause of this disaster. 

[NCGal63]

Been reading some reports that they are leaning toward a sink hole. Pictures of the building don't show enough debris above ground. Also, pictures of the columns that still stand, show a dramatic drop from ground level,


 

A possible sink hole makes a great deal of sense. So far I haven't heard any other hypotheses regarding the cause of this disaster. 

 

From the aerial photos I can see where they are coming to that conclusion.  I can't see how anyone could have survived this.  According to the news, 99 people are now unaccounted for. So sad.
 

[NCGal63]

https://www.local10.com/news/local/2021 ... the-worst/

If any of you are interested in keeping up with the tragedy - Channel 10 in Miami is covering it.
This is so sad. It is now up to 159 missing and 4 deaths 

[Walt]

I read that a south Florida structural engineer who’s been doing inspection in south Florida buildings for 20 years, and he said it could have been caused by steel rebar having rusted, which can expand 7 times its mass, thus splitting the concrete into pieces, setting off the sequence. The building is right on the beach, exposed to salt air, salt water 24/7 for 40 years.

If the above proves to be the case -- what will that do to real estate prices for similar beach front concrete units? Maybe nothing. This could be an anomaly.
 

[AuntieLynn11]

I am also inclined to believe it was the salt. Why do you think they keep re-re-re-re-re-re-re-painting the Golden Gate Bridge. It's the salt, dummy...