Search and rescue personnel work atop the rubble at the Champlain Towers South condo building. The 12-story tower came down with a thunderous roar and left a giant pile of rubble in one of the deadliest collapses in U.S. history. Photo: Lynne Sladky/AP.
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It was an event too horrifying to imagine, even as the world watched footage of a 12-story condominium building becoming a pile of rubble in the South Florida oceanfront town of Surfside. There were people in there, sleeping, watching TV, talking on the phone. But when Champlain Towers South partially collapsed on June 24, 2021, at 1:15 a.m., 98 of them died.
