
'There is still hope,' rescue team leader says as search enters 7th day at Florida building collapse
CNN
Rescue teams are entering their seventh day searching the rubble of a collapsed building in Surfside, Florida -- still holding out hope they will find the 149 people still unaccounted for.
"I can tell you that none of us have lost hope," said Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Capt. Eddy Alarcon. "We'll march up to that pile and start hammering away and cutting away in hopes that we can find somebody... We're always praying for somebody to be alive, but at the very least it gives some closure to the families waiting to hear from their loved ones." The condo building, Champlain Towers South, partially collapsed in the middle of the night Thursday as many residents slept. Currently, 125 people have been accounted for and 12 have been confirmed dead.
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