Surfside condo collapse

The **Surfside condo collapse** occured on June 24, 2021 at approximately 1:22 a.m., when Champlain Towers South, a 12-story beachfront condominium in the Miami suburb of Surfside, Florida, United States, partially collapsed, causing the deaths of 98 people. Four people were rescued from the rubble, but one died of injuries shortly after arriving at the hospital. Eleven others were injured. Approximately thirty-five were rescued the same day from the un-collapsed portion of the building, which was demolished ten days later.

## Background

In the early hours of June 24, The pool deck of Champlain Towers South suddenly suffered a partial collapse at about 1:14 a.m, followed by the progressive collapse of the central section and eastern wing of the building at 1:22 a.m.. The collapse of the building lasted less than 12 seconds. Surveillance video footage indicates that a large north-central section of the building abruptly collapsed first. This isolated and destabilized part of the northeast corner of the building, which also collapsed approximately nine seconds later. Of the 136 units in the building, at least half were destroyed.

Among the dead were the sister of Silvana López Moreira, the first lady of Paraguay, alongside her husband and three children.

## Victims

* Aishani Gia Patel, 1
* Emma Carina Guara, 3
* Luis Pettengill Moreia, 3
* Lorenzo Leone, 5
* Anna "Annita" Pettengill Moreia, 6
* Sofia Nunez Galfrascoli, 6
* Stella Cattarossi, 7
* Alexia Pettengill Moreia, 9
* Lucia Carolina Guara, 11
* Valeria Barth, 14
* Andreas Giannitsopoulos, 21
* Ilan Naibryf, 21
* Deborah Berezdivin, 21
* Leidy Vanessa Villalba, 23
* Anastasia Gromova, 24
* Michelle Anna Pazos, 24
* Nicole Langesfeld, 26
* Andres Levine, 26
* Luis Andres Bermudez, 26
* Lisa "Malki" Weisz, 27
* Luis Sadovnic, 28
* Moises Rodan, 28
* Yisrael "Benny" Weisz, 32
* Juan Alberto Mora, 32
* Sophia Lopez Moreia, 36
* Luis Pettengill, 36
* Ruslan Manashirov, 36
* Theresa Velasquez, 36
* Bhavna Patel, 38
* Cassondra Billedeau Stratton, 40
* Vishal Patel, 42
* Anaely "Ana" Rodriguez, 42
* Nicole Manashirov, 43
* Catalina Gómez Ramirez, 44
* Edgar Gonzalez, 44
* Andrés Galfrascoli, 44
* Ana Isabel Ortiz, 46
* Alfredo Leone, 48
* Graciela Maria Cattarossi, 48
* Michael Altman, 50
* Brad Cohen, 51
* Luis Fernando Barth, 51
* Beatriz "Betty" Guerra, 52
* Harold Rosenberg, 52
* Jay Kleiman, 52
* Marcus Guara, 52
* Estelle Hedaya, 54
* Manuel LaFont, 54
* Stacie Fang, 54
* Miguel Angel Pazos, 55
* Frank "Frankie" Kleiman, 55
* Fabian Nunez, 55
* Bonnie Goldstein, 56
* Andrea Cattarossi, 56
* Maria Teresa Rovirosa, 58
* Linda March, 58
* David Epstein, 58
* Gary Cohen, 58
* Richard Rovirosa, 60
* Angela Velasquez, 60
* Oresme Gil Guerra, 60
* Mercedes Urgellés, 61
* Raymond Urgellés, 61
* Maria Camou Font, 64
* Elena Blasser, 64
* Julio Velasquez, 65
* Miguel Leonardo Kaufman, 65
* Judy Spiegel, 65
* Ingrid "Itty" Ainsworth, 66
* Francis Plasencia, 67
* Margarita "Maggie" Bello, 68
* Margarita Vazquez-Bello, 68
* Tzvi Ainsworth, 68
* Maricoy "Maria" Bonnefoy, 69
* Ana Maria Mora, 69
* Rosa María Sáez, 70
* Edith Sabino, 71
* Gloria Machado, 71
* Christina Elvira, 74
* Richard Augustine, 77
* Marina Restrepo Azen, 76
* Nancy Levin, 76
* Maria Popa, 79
* Juan Mora Sr., 80
* Simon Segal, 80
* Myriam Caspi Notkin, 80
* Gladys Lozano, 80
* Leon Oliwkowicz, 80
* Magaly Delgado, 80
* Guzman Gonzalo Torre, 81
* Mihai Radulescu, 82
* Antonio Lozano, 82
* Graciela Cattarossi, 86
* Arnold "Arnie" Notkin, 87
* Elena Chavez, 87
* Gino Cattarossi, 89
* Hilda Noriega, 92