Miami Archives

Recovery workers vow not to let up in Florida condo collapse

Jul 9, 2021

Rescue workers now focused on finding remains instead of survivors in the rubble of a Florida condominium collapse vowed Thursday to keep up their search for victims until they cleared all the debris at the site.

By Terry Spencer

Haitian Catholics in Miami react to assassination of president

Jul 9, 2021

An apparent sense of quiet and shock in Haiti following the assassination of that country’s embattled president July 7 was mirrored in Florida’s Little Haiti neighborhood.

By Tom Tracy

Families, rescuers hold vigil near collapsed building

Jul 8, 2021

Family members and rescue workers held a vigil Wednesday night near the site of a collapsed Florida condo building shortly after officials announced that they had given up hope of finding any survivors.

By Associated Press

Sisters in Florida condo collapse buried in same coffin

Jul 7, 2021

The bodies of two young sisters pulled from the rubble of a Florida condo building — so tiny that the 4 and 10-year-olds were placed in the same casket — were buried alongside their parents Tuesday

By Terry Spencer and Kelli Kennedy

A week after building collapse, Miami clergy still comforting families

Jul 2, 2021

Father Juan Sosa on Wednesday spent time with the relative of a missing family in the collapse of the Champlain Towers condominium in Surfside, Florida. She was in tears. The family was supposed to celebrate one of the children’s birthdays until the collapse last week.

By John Lavenburg

Youth at Florida Catholic parish help lead prayers, vigil following tragedy

Jun 30, 2021

After girding themselves with eucharistic adoration, rosary, songs and reflections, the teens, young adults and parish community of St. Joseph stepped out into the night air to solemnly walk to Surfside’s new ground zero.

By Tom Tracy

Makeshift memorial near collapsed condo tower is reflection of humanity

Jun 29, 2021

Surfside’s informal Wall of Remembrance memorial sprung up following the tragic partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South condo building near Miami Beach.

By Tom Tracy

Miami Catholic parish says 10 of its families still missing after collapse

Jun 28, 2021

It is an understatement to say the people and staff of St. Joseph Parish will be living the crisis of the Surfside condominium collapse in a most intimate way for some time to come.

By Tom Tracy