[WPOZZZ]

Happened about 30 minutes ago, so most people were sleeping.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/06/24/surfside-building-collapse-miami-dade/

By Tim Elfrink
June 23, 2021 at 9:38 p.m. HST

A large condo building along the beachfront in Surfside, Fla., partially collapsed early on Thursday morning, prompting a mass search-and-rescue response from local authorities.

More than 80 units from Miami-Dade Fire Rescue rushed to the scene in the city just north of Miami Beach after 2 a.m., the agency said on Twitter, joining first responders from multiple other agencies.

It was not immediately clear whether anyone lived in the affected section of the building or was injured in the collapse. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said its Technical Rescue Team had responded to the scene. The team is “specially trained in the treatment and removal of victims trapped in complex or confined spaces,” according to the agency.

Photos from the scene suggest that a full section collapsed in the tower, which appears to be at least 12 stories high, leaving a massive pile of concrete rubble and balconies sheared in half.

One nearby hotel guest shot video after the collapse, just as first responders began to arrive at the scene.

“We were right there on the second floor,” the man shooting the video says. “The building, one of these huge buildings, gone, right here beside us. The craziest thing I’ve ever heard in my life.”