According to CNN, at 1:30 a.m. local time on Thursday, the Miami Waterfront Apartment suddenly collapsed, at least three people died and 99 people were missing!
From the scene taken at the collapse site, we can see that the collapse of this building is very serious, and there is basically no structure that can support the living space. There is no danger of missing people! On other structures of the apartment building that has not yet collapsed, some air conditioners, residents' furniture and some household appliances that seem to fall off the roof!
The one that left the deepest impression on everyone was the 12-story building. There seemed to be no obvious framework structure, and there were thin floor slabs between the upper and lower floors. Is this the real reason for the collapse?
How serious is the collapse of the Miami building?
The collapsed building is located in the Champlaentan Apartment in the seaside town of Seffside, about 6 miles north of Miami Beach, Florida, in 1981, with 136 units. The collapsed part is the Northeast Corridor, which contains about 55 units.
This collapse incident should have suffered heavy casualties, because there were several serious problems during the collapse:
1. It collapsed at 1:30 am local time. At this time, most residents were already asleep. According to witnesses, the collapse speed was very fast. A burst of blue smoke floated by and the building collapsed.
0. According to videos from nearby surveillance videos, the collapse process was very strange. It started to collapse from the center of the building, and then the northeast corridor near the coastline began to shaky, but a few seconds later, the collapsed smoke rose up, blocking the view, and the surveillance video could not see the scene clearly!
Except for residents who went out and did not go home, they had already rested at 1:30 and had no time to react in their sleep. Even if they woke up, they would be slow to react because they had just woken up, so it was difficult to escape at this time!
Another important reason is that there is no time to escape, because from the collapse of the center to the collapse of the Northeast Corridor, it only takes a few seconds to get Superman and Spider-Man to crawl out of the window.
. Judging from the published pictures, it is basically a pile of rubble, with floor slabs stacked layer by layer, just like the scene after a landslide. Despite this, we still hope to leave a lot of living space inside and try our best to save more lives!
Florida Fire Chief and Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis said that rescue will not stop because night comes, and rescue workers will work all night!
In a video released by local TV stations, rescuers rescued a mother and child, but the woman's legs were pressed by the floor and she had to be amputated to rescue her from the rubble. This is a heartbreaking picture!
Miami -Raide Jadallah of the Dyde Fire and Rescue Center said that 35 people have been rescued, and the rescue center is setting up a support structure to prevent the sudden collapse of the part that has not yet collapsed! He said that the records of this building were almost full of people, but many people came for vacation, and the records were not real-time, so the authorities have not yet figured out how many people were buried under the rubble! What exactly did
collapse?
Surfside City Commissioner Eliana Salzhauser said the building is over 40 years old, and the county stipulates that houses that reach 40 years must be re-certified, and the building has just passed 40 years, and records show that it is being re-certified! The woman said at least one construction inspector arrived at the site to investigate on Wednesday (before the collapse), but was not sure what conclusions were drawn!
"Floor Thin" is the real reason?
According to witnesses, the roof of this apartment building was under construction before it collapsed, but it is not possible to determine whether the construction is related to the collapse, nor is it sure the nature of the construction, and it is still under investigation!
Some witnesses expressed dissatisfaction with the quality of the building, because there seems to be no structure that can bear loads from the exposed floor slabs and structures. For example, the floor slabs are very thin and the frame structure is not even the same as the concrete grayish white, and it does not look like a high-strength concrete structure at all, but a loose block structure!
Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett described this building as "simply pancake". I wonder if the mayor described the collapse of the building very thoroughly, or the quality of the building is too poor, but the floor slab is very appropriate to describe it as pancake! Because from the exposed floor slabs, the floor slabs are really thin compared to the building!
63-year-old Barry Cohen, a resident of this apartment building, said that he and his wife were sleeping in the southeast corner that had not yet collapsed. Suddenly, the sound of thunder was sensational, accompanied by a huge vibration. He thought the earthquake was happening! I quickly got up and opened the door but saw that the end of the corridor had disappeared!
He was unable to go downstairs, and the firefighters who arrived finally took them to the ground with a climbing ladder. Mr. Cohen told the CNN reporter that he found that the swimming pool was cracked a few years ago. He had worried about whether it would affect nearby buildings, but now everything is too late!
The authorities have not yet entered a substantive investigation into the cause of the collapse of the building, and residents are also very suspicious of the quality of the old buildings they live in, because the standards in buildings in the 1980s were not as strict as they are now. Judging from the location of the collapse of the building, it seems that the cement label of is very low!
The real problem is that building safety inspectors arrived before the collapse on Wednesday, which means that the authorities have some understanding of the movements of the building, but why wasn’t the evacuation early? This is a question, and it may be left to the Florida authorities to investigate before the answer can be given!
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