“It was the Wild West — whatever you could get away with if you were making a buck.”Turner, who previously specialized in repairing older buildings, said he’s seen very dangerous damage in Florida buildings. Steven Rogers lives at the Chalfonte condominiums in Boca Raton, where neither the city nor Palm Beach County requires building recertification. Rogers said he called engineers again after the Surfside collapse and told them he wants an inspection policy that’s more stringent than Miami-Dade’s. We have to do the right things now.”How the state will act could depend a lot on what's learned about the Surfside collapse, Republican Gov. "Is it something that buildings of that age that would have implications beyond that, whether southern Florida or the entire state of Florida?

Source: ABC News July 11, 2021 12:22 UTC