Surfside collapse: Miami launches audit of several buildings at risk
Search continues in the rubble of the collapsed Surfside building in Miami.
AP - Mark Humphrey
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Nine days after the sudden collapse of a building in Florida, the death toll is now 22 dead and still 126 missing.
A tragedy that prompted the authorities to launch a vast operation to audit buildings in the city and another building was evacuated on Friday.
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With our correspondent in New York,
Loubna Anaki
The evacuation was ordered in a rush after electrical and structural issues at the north Miami Beach apartment building were made public.
In fact, authorities have learned that an engineer inspected the 156-apartment building several months ago and reported the risks.
The inhabitants were therefore evacuated as a precaution, especially because of the approach of Hurricane Isla.
A week after
the collapse in Surfside
, authorities are unwilling to take any chances.
A vast audit operation has been launched in the city.
You should know that in Florida, buildings must be recertified once past 40 years, then every 10 years to verify that they are up to standards.
The audit will allow to know if this rule is respected.
While the questions surrounding the tragedy remain largely unanswered for the moment, some see it as a new red flag on the state of infrastructure in the country.
The
USA Today
newspaper in
particular believes it is time to take this problem seriously and suggests that Joe Biden's infrastructure plan is more necessary than ever.
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