4 More Victims Identified In Florida Condo Collapse

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People visit a makeshift memorial for the victims of the building collapse, near the site of the accident in Surfside, Fla., on Sunday.





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Surfside Official Told Residents Their Building Was Safe, Despite Engineer’s Warning

«I wasn’t there for that, Burkett said, noting that he was not mayor at the time. He said he asked Surfside officials to find «every piece of correspondence related to that building and put it on our website.

Mayor Burkett also said the owner of the Champlain Towers North, which is largely identical to the building that collapsed and was built by the same developer at the same time, is bringing in an engineering firm on Tuesday to do a «top to bottom study, using X-rays and ground-penetrating radar. An earlier «cursory review did not find anything immediately wrong, he said earlier.

Some residents have voluntarily evacuated that building, but there is no mandatory evacuation in place.