Hopes of finding survivors in Miami building collapse flagging

Despite a huge deployment of human and material resources, rescue workers have yet to pull any survivors from the debris after a 12-storey apartment building collapsed in Florida. Colonel Golan Vach, who heads a 15-person search-and-rescue team from Israel that has joined others in Florida, said he feels the emotional weight. ‘Sometimes we cry. It’s natural’, he said. More than two dozen of the missing were Jewish and had links to Israel. ’There are minor chances’, said Vach. ‘I would not say there are no chances’ Search for Miami collapse survivors continues as death toll rises to 12 Miami condo collapse prompts questions over role of climate change Miami calls for inspections of older buildings over six stories after collapse