Florida officials ask feds for more rescue workers amid hurricane worries

Facing the possibility of a busy hurricane season, Florida officials have reportedly asked the federal government for additional rescue workers to assist at the site of the deadly condo building collapse.

Every Florida Urban Search and Rescue Task Force is currently deployed in Surfside, where the Champlain Towers South condo tower partially collapsed a week ago, the Miami Herald reported. Division of Emergency Management Director Kevin Guthrie and Miami-Dade Fire Chief Alan Cominsky have requested that FEMA send a search-and-rescue team to free up some crews to handle possible storms in the coming days, according to the paper.“The thought process that both the chief and I thought about today was we have all eight Urban Search and Rescue teams engaged in this fight from Florida, so we talked about doing a relief,” Guthrie said. “So we have all the resources we need, but we’re going to bring in another team to, if you will, back-fill those resources.”