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Authorities announced on Friday that an additional four victims were recovered, including the 7-year-old daughter of a Miami firefighter. President Joe Biden visited the collapse site on Thursday and met with families, promising federal support for search and rescue efforts.

In a briefing on Friday evening, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava also announced that two additional victims had been found, bringing the total of confirmed deaths to 22.

President Joe Biden and his wife, first lady Jill Biden, travelled to Florida on Thursday to comfort families affected by the recent condo collapse.

A Massachusetts company is sending a robot to Surfide, Florida to help with search and rescue efforts after a deadly building collapse.

A specialized robot developed in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, is now in Surfside, Florida, helping rescue teams search for any signs of life in the massive pile of rubble following a large apartment building collapse. “We overnighted a system down there to have at the ready,” said Tom Frost, Vice President of Teledyne FLIR’s ground robot business. The 5-lb. robot is...

Kevin Guthrie, director at Florida Division of Emergency Management, spoke Friday morning about an emergency declaration to assist in efforts in Surfside, Florida.

The stunning images coming out of south Florida were shocking to even the most veteran of building experts. “This is more than getting struck by lightning,” said John Lojek, commissioner of Inspectional Services for the city of Newton. “This is getting struck by lightning several times in a row.” More than half of a 12-story building in Surfside, Florida, collapsed…

As first responders in Florida sifted through the rubble of a deadly condo collapse, Massachusetts crews demonstrated what goes into the recovery effort. The partial collapse of a 12-story building in Surfside, near Miami, left at least one person dead and scores unaccounted for. The Massachusetts Task Force Urban Search and Rescue team, a FEMA group based in Beverly, gave…

An entire wing of a beachfront condo building came down, sparking a frantic search for nearly 100 people unaccounted for.

A soccer game may have saved Patricia Avilez’s life.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made brief comments about the building collapse in Surfside, Fla., before a press conference on Thursday.

A boy is rescued by firefighters from the rubble of a partial collapse of a condo building in Surfside. (Video credit: ReliableNewsMedia)

Two people were rushed to trauma centers in critical condition Saturday and nine more were reported injured when a rented residential balcony collapsed onto a Malibu beach.

Cellphone footage shows the moment a building demolition in Izmir, Turkey, went horribly wrong, crashing into the apartment building next door.

A residential building that was due for repairs has collapsed in central India, killing at least 10 people.

Rescue efforts ended at a two-story restaurant in a northern Chinese village that collapsed during a local resident’s 80th birthday celebration, leaving 29 people dead.

Seventeen people have been killed in China after a two-story restaurant collapsed.

A building under renovation collapsed in Northeast D.C. on Wednesday and a home security camera caught the whole thing. One person was hit by falling debris and was taken to a hospital with injuries that were not considered to be life-threatening, the D.C. fire department said. All workers were accounted for. Video from resident Andy Feliciotti shows the moment...

Five people were evacuated from their homes in Boston’s South End after a vacant brownstone building partially collapsed Wednesday night. Hours after the initial collapse, another part of the building appeared to break loose, and city inspectors issued two violations to the building’s owners. Crews responded Wednesday night at 23 Upton Street, a 5-story brick building that was posted...