Ex-maintenance manager had concerns before Florida condo collapse

A former maintenance manager for the Florida condo tower that collapsed last week said he had raised concerns about ocean water regularly inundating the parking garage — and that the flooding struck him as “just not normal.”

William Espinosa, who oversaw the maintenance staff of the Champlain Towers South Condo in Surfside, recalled having to often use pumps to get rid of potentially corrosive seawater seeping into the underground parking garage, news station WFOR reported. “Any time that we had high tides away from the ordinary, any King Tide or anything like that, we would have a lot of saltwater come in through the bottom of the foundation,” Espinosa told the outlet.