Federal Probe Finds Surfside Collapse Started Three Weeks Before Final Breakdown

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• AP — The deadly destruction of a Florida beachfront condominium actually started weeks before it collapsed into a pile of rubble in the middle of the night, killing 98 people in 2021, but the building had been vulnerable from the start, federal investigators found in a final report issued Monday.

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• The National Institute of Standards and Technology said in the report that two connections between garage columns and the pool deck started to fail around early June.

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• Surfside condo started failing 3 weeks before total collapse, federal report says.

  according to CBS News — Latest

• The combination of a structure design that did not meet building codes and alterations made to it over its 40 years meant that the other parts of the pool deck weren’t strong enough to withstand the extra load, leading to the type of slow-motion collapse.

  according to The Guardian — US News

• According to the report, the structure failures began three weeks before the building fell when two connections between garage columns and the pool deck gave way.

  according to CBS News — Latest

• Most residents were asleep when the building in the tiny town of Surfside, Florida, a few miles north of Miami, collapsed into a huge pile of rubble at 1:22 a.m. on June 24, 2021.

  according to The Times of Israel

• Government agency NIST concludes that an undetected structural failure in 2021 created a domino effect that ultimately claimed 98 lives.

  according to Wall Street Journal

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• AP — The deadly destruction of a Florida beachfront condominium actually started weeks before it collapsed into a pile of rubble in the…

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• The National Institute of Standards and Technology said in the report that two connections between garage columns and the pool deck started…

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