Tuesday Watch ‘Ask Pilar’ June 29, 2021 T: 582-7800 www.arubatoday.com facebook.com/arubatoday instagram.com/arubatoday Page 8 Aruba’s ONLY English newspaper Crews spend 5th day atop shaky pile of collapsed concrete By TERRY SPENCER and RUSS layer upon layer of inter- BYNUM twined debris, frustrating SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — Res- efforts to reach anyone cuers searching for a fifth who may have survived in day for survivors of a Florida a pocket of space. SEARCH condo building collapse “Every time there’s an ac- used bucket brigades and tion, there’s a reaction,” heavy machinery Monday Miami-Dade Assistant Fire as they worked atop a pre- Chief Raide Jadallah said AND RESUCUE carious mound of pulver- during a news conference. ized concrete, twisted steel “It’s not an issue of we and the remnants of doz- could just attach a cou- ens of households. ple of cords to a concrete Authorities said the efforts boulder and lift it and call are still a search-and-res- it a day.” Some of the con- cue operation, but no one crete pieces are smaller, has been found alive since the size of basketballs or hours after the collapse on baseballs. Thursday. Ten people have Underscoring the danger- been confirmed killed, and ous nature of the work, he more than 150 others are noted that families who still missing in the commu- rode buses to visit the site nity of Surfside, just outside on Sunday witnessed a res- Miami. cuer tumble 25 feet down Crews work in the rubble at the Champlain Towers South Condo, Sunday, June 27, 2021, in Surf- The pancake collapse of the pile. side, Fla. the 12-story building left Continued on next page Associated Press A2 TUESDAY 29 JUNE 2021 UP FRONT Continued from Front As time goes on, he said, Workers and victims must teams will begin a process both be considered, he called "rapid delayering, said. where you take more risk "It's going to take time," he by moving larger amounts said. "It's not going to hap- of rubble, because you pen overnight. It's a 12-story recognize you're running building." up against the time factor The intense effort includes for survival." firefighters, sniffer dogs and How long a person can sur- search experts using radar vive depends on a host of and sonar devices. issues, including the avail- Early Monday, a crane ability of water, the sever- lifted a large slab of con- ity of any injuries and the crete from the debris pile, degree to which they are enabling about 30 rescuers trapped, Barbera said. in hard hats to move in and "The human dimension is carry smaller pieces of de- huge -- the uncertainty bris into red buckets, which that you could be leaving are emptied into a larger someone alive behind by bin for a crane to remove. ending too early," Barbera The work has been compli- said. "Families continue to cated by intermittent rain have hope, as do rescu- showers, but the fires that Workers search the rubble at the Champlain Towers South condo, Monday, June 28, 2021, in Surf- ers, which is why you con- hampered the initial search side, Fla. Many people were still unaccounted for after Thursday's fatal collapse. tinue to see them pushing have been extinguished. Associated Press so hard within these difficult Jimmy Patronis, Florida's conditions." chief financial officer and cident commander with like, all the rubble. How can drops of water," he said. The ultimate decision to state fire marshal, said it Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, somebody survive that?" "There are still chances. We move into the recovery was the largest deploy- told ABC's "Good Morn- Lopez told The Associated have to keep up the high phase, he said, will have to ment of such resources in ing America" that rescu- Press. hopes." Authorities on Mon- be made "with the involve- Florida history that was not ers have been able to find While most rescue teams day insisted they are not ment of the political au- due to a hurricane. He said some voids, or spaces, in- were from the area, oth- losing hope. thority because they're the the same number of peo- side the wreckage, mostly ers came from elsewhere, "We're going to continue ultimate authority over this." ple were on the ground in in the basement and the including a small group of and work ceaselessly to ex- The building collapsed just Surfside as during Hurricane parking garage. rescue workers from the haust every possible option days before a deadline for Michael, a devastating "We have over 80 rescuers Mexican group Cadena In- in our search," Miami-Dade condo owners to start mak- Category 5 hurricane that at a time that are breach- ternational. Mayor Daniella Levine ing steep payments toward hit 12 counties in 2018. ing the walls that col- The group was using a suit- Cava said Monday. more than $9 million in re- "They're working around lapsed, in a frantic effort case-size device that uses Deciding to transition from pairs that had been recom- the clock," Patronis said. to try to rescue those that microwave radar to "see" search-and-rescue work mended nearly three years "They're working 12 hours at are still viable and to get to through concrete slabs and to a recovery operation is earlier, in a report that a time, midnight to noon to those voids that we typical- pick up heartbeats and agonizing, said Dr. Joseph warned of "major structural midnight." ly know exist in these build- other sounds up to 40 feet A. Barbera, a professor at damage." Andy Alvarez, a deputy in- ings," Alvarez said. inside and under the rub- George Washington Univer- A federal team of scientists "We have been able to tun- ble. But as of Monday, the sity. That decision is fraught and engineers who exam- nel through the building," group had not detected with considerations, he ine structural failures are Alvarez added. "This is a any heartbeats or sounds, said, that only those on the conducting a preliminary ARUBA frantic search to seek that said Ricardo Aizenman. ground can make. investigation at the site and CLEAN hope, that miracle, to see "We are still working all the Barbera coauthored a will determine whether to who we can bring out of way, and we are hopeful study examining disasters launch a full probe of what this building alive." for a miracle," he said, add- where some people sur- caused the building to Others who have seen ing that the best window vived under rubble for pro- come down. The National the wreckage up close for rescue is in the first 72 longed periods of time. He Institute of Standards and were daunted by the task hours. has also advised teams on Technology also investi- ahead. Alfredo Lopez, who After that time, hydration where to look for potential gated disasters such as the lived with his wife in a sixth- becomes the biggest chal- survivors and when to con- collapse of the twin tow- floor corner apartment and lenge, he said. He added clude "that the probabil- ers on 9/11, Hurricane Ma- narrowly escaped, said he that the on-and-off rain ity of continued survival is ria's devastation in Puerto finds it hard to believe any- happening since the col- very, very small." Rico and a Rhode Island one is alive in the rubble. lapse could actually help "It's an incredibly difficult nightclub fire that killed 100 IS MORE "If you saw what I saw: as a source of water. decision, and I've never people. Previous investiga- nothingness. And then, you "People can live up to 15, had to make that decision," tions have taken years to DUSHI go over there and you see, 16 days with only water, Barbera said. complete.q A3 U.S. NEWS TUESDAY 29 JUNE 2021 Juul to pay $40M in N. Carolina teen vaping suit settlement By GARY D. ROBERTSON of personal injury lawsuits DURHAM N.C. (AP) — Elec- from customers and fami- tronic cigarette giant Juul lies of young people who Labs Inc. will pay $40 million said they were hurt or ad- to North Carolina and take dicted by the company's more action to prevent un- products. Those have been derage use and sales, ac- consolidated in a Califor- cording to a landmark le- nia federal case. gal settlement announced Juul already had taken a Monday after years of ac- legal beating this spring in cusations that the compa- the North Carolina case. ny had fueled an explosion Superior Court Judge Or- in teen vaping. lando Hudson declared A state judge accepted in May that the company the first-of-its-kind agree- had destroyed documents ment with a state. North and ignored court orders, Carolina Attorney General leading to possible massive Josh Stein had sued Juul, monetary sanctions. accusing it of employing Teen vaping dropped sig- unfair and deceptive prac- nificantly last year, accord- tices that targeted young ing to the federal Centers people to use its vaping for Disease Control and Juul attorney Andrew McGann, right, and Andy Penry, left, an attorney for the state, converse be- products, which deliver ad- fore a hearing regarding the state's case against the e-cigarette company at the Durham County Prevention. In a national dictive nicotine. The lawsuit Courthouse in downtown Durham, N.C. on Monday, June 28, 2021. survey, just under 20% of had been scheduled for Associated Press high school students said trial next month.