Death toll in Florida building collapse rises to 12 with 149 missing

SURFSIDE: Another body was recovered from the ruins of a Florida condominium tower on Tuesday , the mayor said, raising the death toll in the collapse to at least 12 with 149 people still listed as missing.

Florida emergency management director Kevin Guthrie said local authorities on Tuesday had asked the federal government to send additional urban search and rescue teams to the scene in the town of Surfside.Authorities say they still have hope that survivors might yet be found in the pile of concrete and twisted metal left when nearly half of the 12-storey, 136-unit tower caved in.

Fire officials have spoken of detecting faint sounds from inside the rubble pile and finding voids deep in the debris large enough to possibly sustain life.But Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Chief Alan Cominsky said search-and-rescue personnel faced an enormous task while working 12-hour shifts in the heat. "But at the same time we are going to require within probably three weeks, all of these buildings in the recertification process to come up with an updated report," Gelber told CNN.

Levin Cava said she had spoken on Tuesday with State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle. A grand jury has yet to be impanelled, she said, but when it is,"we will be fully on board".

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