It is burning deep in the ruins, and the firefighters have not found the hearth.
Rescue workers are fighting against the clock and are still hoping that it is possible to find survivors after the accident. They use infrared cameras, water and foam to put out the flames.
– Extremely difficult
– We are facing incredible difficulties with this fire. It is extremely difficult to find the source, says mayor Daniella Levine Cava in Miami-Dade.
She told a press conference on Saturday that no more had been found in the building masses after the twelve-storey apartment block collapsed.
– The numbers are the same as yesterday. We have control of 127. 159 have still not been accounted for, and four have been confirmed dead, she says.
Warned already in 2018
A crane removes debris from the almost 10 meter high mound. Dozens of rescue workers use construction machinery, shovels, buckets and their hands to dig out buildings, and also drones and microphones to search for survivors.
On Saturday, it became known that an expert warned of structural damage to the building just north of Miami Beach already in 2018. The exact cause of the collapse is so far not known.
The local authorities have announced that they will carry out security checks of all buildings approaching the same age as the collapsed apartment block, around 40 years.
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