Despite warning, town deemed condo building in 'good shape'

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Despite an engineer’s warning of major structural problems, a town building official told board members their high-rise condominium in Surfside, Florida, was in “very good shape” almost three years before it collapsed.

The board meeting minutes say that Prieto told them in 2018 the Morabito engineering report had collected the necessary information and “it appears the building is in very good shape.”A day later, Prieto told the then-town manager of Surfside he thought the meeting was a success and credited Champlain Towers with getting a good early start on the recertification process.

Prieto no longer works at Surfside and efforts to locate him Monday for comment were not immediately successful. Prieto previously told the Miami Herald he didn’t remember getting the Morabito report and declined to comment on the November 2018 board meeting. “Failure to replace the waterproofing in the near future will cause the extent of the concrete deterioration to expand exponentially,” said the report, which also cited “abundant cracking” in concrete columns and beams.While numerous theories have emerged, no definitive cause has been identified in Thursday’s collapse of the 12-story Champlain Towers South building that left at leastOne problem that surfaced back in 2019 involved work at another building adjacent to Champlain Towers South.

Champlain Towers South resident Steven Rosenthal, who lived on the seventh floor and escaped the collapse, said in a negligence lawsuit filed Sunday by his attorney Robert McKee that there were ample signs of danger.

 

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It was not a thorough review perhaps a convenient one. The presence of.the water in the garage may have never been questioned. This.may save many other lives in the future. Nothing comes from vacuum. We must ask the ugly question always. That water was the harsh truth.

Let's compare the way these workers are working vs. Other countries with people who volunteer to save people from falling buildings. There are people trapped inside and these so called 'heros' are standing around a shit ton

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