SURFSIDE, Fla. – Engineers were evaluating options Friday for demolishing the remaining portion of a condo building that partially collapsed outside Miami last week, leaving 22 people dead and 126 unaccounted for.
Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said she signed an emergency order to demolish the remaining portion of Champlain Towers South, once engineers have signed off on the project, given the structure’s imminent threat to public health and safety.
There is no specific start date for the demolition,which would likely take “weeks,” Levine Cava said in a Friday evening news briefing. Engineers are meeting regularly to determine what the demolition process would look like, and officials’ top priority remains search and rescue, she said.
“We’re
