Surfside Building Collapse

Jorge Pérez built Related Group into one of the leading condominium and apartment developers in the region, reshaping the South Florida skyline. Now his two oldest sons have taken over the day-to-day running of the company after the Surfside collapse.

The HistoryMiami museum took down items on the Surfside memorial wall, that honored the victims of the Champlain Towers South collapse, to care for them and preserve them as the peak of hurricane season looms.

On Aug. 30, HistoryMiami will take items along a tennis court fence that serves as a memorial to the victims of the Champlain Towers South Collapse to preserve and care for them until they find a permanent home.

No matter what, if any, role rising seas played in the collapse, there is no escaping the rising risks to Surfside and other coastal communities up and down the Florida coast.

She was a 54-year-old woman, her family said.

Members of an obscure Miami-Dade County board are pushing to work through the backlog in the wake of the Surfside condo collapse.

She is calling for the Florida Legislature to create a statewide task force to prevent such disasters.

Search teams have worked day and night to clear the land of building parts and debris. Now a Miami-Dade County circuit judge is hearing arguments about what should happen to the oceanfront property.

WLRN has spent the past few weeks in Surfside speaking to folks who lost loved ones in the catastrophe, people who rushed to help in the aftermath or who’ve played a role in helping the community grieve.

Police and forensic specialists continue working to identify human remains.

Robert Nordlund of Association Reserves says condo boards should expect that buildings deteriorate. He says always low monthly assessments could mean the board isn't budgeting for building needs.

A few people are still classified as missing, or “potentially unaccounted for.”