On June 24, 2021, at approximately 1:20 a.m., a 12-story residential condominium known as Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida, suffered a catastrophic partial collapse. The incident resulted in 98 people losing their lives and injured 11 others, marking it as one of the deadliest structural failures in U.S. history. The building, constructed in 1981, housed 136 units, and the collapse primarily affected the eastern wing, leaving a pile of debris where dozens of residents were trapped. Re

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