Engineer Warned of 'Major Structural Damage' at Florida Condo Complex

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57. A story about one of the occupants struck me as illuminating.

This must have happened before the first building section fell, along with a garage collapse.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/06/26/collins-ave-miami-condo-collapse/

From her fourth-floor balcony, Cassondra Stratton felt a tremor and saw the swimming pool cave in. She immediately called her husband, Michael, in Denver, 2,000 miles away.

Michael listened as Cassondra, who had been riding out the pandemic at their apartment on the beach in Surfside, described a sudden shaking.

“And then the phone went dead,” he said.

“She screamed bloody murder and that was it,” said Stratton’s sister, Ashley Dean.

Also, the first call went out to firefighters at 1:20, citing a 'garage collapse'. By the time they arrived, the building sections had collapsed.