"We have hope because that's what our search-and-rescue team tells us, that they have hope," Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava told a news conference. But the number of people unaccounted for remained constant throughout the day, meaning rescuers had not found any bodies or survivors. Below ground, rescuers who entered through the parking garage risked their own lives searching for survivors, occasionally being hit by falling debris, officials said. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue chief Andy Alvarez recalled that his team once pulled a girl out of earthquake debris in Haiti eight days into the rescue effort. "Either the building is settling into the soil or maybe there is some compromise with the structure, a compromise within the building.

Source: The Edge Markets June 26, 2021 01:52 UTC