Bodycam video shows moment when police responded to Surfside building collapse 

The screams will have been from in the surviving half.. i imagine those in the collapsed suffered rapid deaths. So tragic and heart breaking to hear it.

@@somewherehere424 No. There were people in the actual rubble crying out, that didn't die instantly, including the mother of the teenage boy who was rescued, but the mother later died from her injuries, and others who the rescuers couldn't get to. Witnesses said there were people crying out for several hours in the rubble, but couldn't be rescued in time.

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@@nuitNo.6 thank-you for actually Thoroughly reading through it :)

@@Ninyt32 Thank you for getting triggered.

and the police were no help

It would have been very hard to help in the dark plus trying to get to somebody you can hear, walking on debris that might crush someone underneath or you yourself get trapped. Until daylight I bet not many were rescued under the debris.

@@priceandpride yeah you would have been out there lifting cars with your bare hands. They needed you.

@@priceandpride your ignorance and hate are appalling. Have better character than that.

@@priceandpride yeah i bet you'd be digging through those rubble, SUPERMAN

I was a little surprised he didn't say "mass casualty event" but he probably couldn't bring himself to think/say it. Even weeks later so many people were still hoping someone was alive in there and that all those nearly-100 people were not really dead.

@@denverdubois5835 it wasn't nearly 100. The official death toll is that 162 people lost their lives in the collapse.

@@whocares269 The death toll is 98 rn actually

@@m1zxry_tt832 my bad, my illiterate self was reading reports from 28th June over July :s Its a miracle if the final count remains under 100 souls lost! Some news sites are out of bounds for eu people but as far as I can tell, the 162 figure I was holding in my mind had duplicate missing reports and as of the end of July (which I promise Ive always known comes after June...) they've recovered 98 from the collapse site and a further 22 people are still unaccounted for. Is that right? If I've still not got the numbers please correct me, it's sad that I can find videos of the collapse easier than I can find info about our fellow humans- gotta love msm logic 😒

@@whocares269 The 22 were incidents of family believing someone they knew was in the building but they were ok. so as of right now the recovery of bodies is done as everyone is now accounted for.

And dark! The dust really shows how scary, confusing, and difficult it must have been for the first responders. My heart sank when he went into the dark garage because so many arrived not even know the full pending danger of the situation. 😢

blessed7fold: Exactly. This is not something that they most likely are not trained for. This happened so suddenly. Not like a hurricane that gives plenty of warning. (BTW, I'm a retired urban cop.)

@@debstrzelecki2485 Plus they didn't know if it was an intentional explosion, gas explosion, or what.

@@xeldinn86 Exactly. So much crazy going on. As a cop, my first thought would be an explosion of some kind.

Anyone would have that reaction. This is NOT something we plan for. It’s a disaster - they are forced to process this so much more quickly, I know I would have buckled under the pressure myself.

@@kamaniaray Excellent way of putting it. Definitely have to process and prioritize so much within a few seconds. Multi vehicle PI accidents during rush hour come to mind. Especially those when there are people who were involved running away.

Hopefully they were wearing masks. I'm sure they had some due to the pandemic.

And asbestos probably

I thought of that too. Scary for their future.

Surely though in a country as developed as America they'll get free first class healthcare......... Oh wait...

@@jasonhaynes2952 it’s Florida so they probably didn’t have masks

You live in New York City? ...oh.

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yet the copers walk away? you can literaly hear one of the folks screaming for help tell the guy shes not ok and he walks away without responding ...you can hear at i think 3:55 wow wtf from a person in distress responding too the guy walking away after she says she needed help and shes not ok.....

@@northwestalternativemedia2125 , I so agree, it’s like they were more interested in getting into the lighted ,air conditioned adjacent building, than looking for who was screaming !! They could have at least shown the fireman where someone needed rescue

I think those comments were blocked by RU-vid. They been doing that for a while now

@@MrMJmusicLover Pity they can't do it with the conspiracy nonsense.

The training kicks in first. Prayers come afterwards. (I'm a retired cop.)

​@@debstrzelecki2485Even though I was never a first responder I understand about emergency rescue situations, and I wasn't referring to God in the religious aspect of summoning Him there to "save the souls" of the victims as people stood around and prayed. I meant it in the sense that He might work a miracle. Foolish concept, I know, bc of course God wouldn't lift the tower back to how it was before. In truth, I worded my comment to mimic what someone who first walked up to the scene might say, be they first responder or civilian, and mixed with the actual words we heard at the beginning of the video.

@@debstrzelecki2485 How about actual rescuing instead of relying on "thoughts and prayers" ????

Yea 911 was 100 times more worse than this. RIP to the 90 some people who lost their life and the 3,000 some people on 911. These days we'll never forget

@@SharkWhisper00 yeah of course. This is pretty sad and worse. It was warned already

I'm sure you would have been one of the 1st 1 down there digging through the rubble There was nothing they could do

@@cliffwilleford9970 Yes Me & many other neighbors and people from around here who wanted and tried to help . YOU clearly would have not been the first one offering help to these poor people.

They were not covered up, the building had known structural issues. I do suspect however the building may not have been built properly. Everyone involved in the construction is likely dead or retired.

@@gailgrove They followed Laws and Construction-Safety rules used at the time. What they DID NOT follow over that 40 year period.. was proper maintenance and repairs.

I think that group is referred to as the owners who objected to the high assessment and voted out 2019 board.

@@gailgrove well there had to have been signs of how serious this was. I wonder should that building been declared unsafe ??

@@SoundJudgment I agree, however I've seen buildings and bridges with damage far worse this still standing. "To code" doesn't mean exceptionally well built, it is a minimum.

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2:56 you can see cracking

Have you been inside a condo building. They’re nice looking inside, it’s homes

Yes, I think that was her also--or the people with the boy that they pulled out alive. I don't fault the young officer--he was in shock. It takes a few moments to comprehend something this massive and terrible, especially when 99.9% of the calls you ever get are routine traffic accidents, domestic squabbles, public drunkenness, burglaries and the like.

I think so too.

No don’t think so. If you read accounts of people who tried to exit from the garage it sounds like it was likely the family of 4 on I think 11th floor and another husband and wife and an older neighbor 88yo who reached the garage level by the stairs. The two mothers (with a daughter and with a son) who survived the collapse were partially buried in rubble on the other side of the building. There was also a young woman trapped between two beds who was on the north side of the building in the collapsed underground garage portion on that other side too. They could hear and talk to her but couldn’t reach her in time during those first 11 hours after collapse. From all published accounts those were the only people that lived apart from those rescued off balconies on the uncollapsed Collins Avenue west side of the building.

@@GoSvideoEye When he asked her if you ok, she said No and here is my baby….Unfortunately nobody else could talk anymore🥺

They have training for disasters. There were plenty of dispatch calls too. The police look real stupid here.

They actually did not follow the plans as written. That said, the building did stand for 40 years so in my mind something happened in the last month or two or even a year or so before the collapse that caused it. Hopefully we'll find out sooner rather than later.

@@KayInMaine And please do not forget... the decades of decay of the supporting-concrete slabs and rebar from rain and salt-water intrusion. PLUS... the addition of marble-flooring and granite counter-tops and surfaces in many of the units. THIS BUILDING WAS NOT CONSTRUCTED to deal with all that added weight brought in and placed over time.

@@SoundJudgment totally agree. I'm not negating that fact.

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@@SoundJudgment 40 years is nothing for a building, tho. They didn't use enough rebar, for starters. You can see in the garage where it fell, but not all the way. It's stripped outwards. Each side only has a few bars of rebar. They SHOULD be loaded with them. At least, that engineer guy who has videos up here was showing how they would have been constructed. The whole side on each side should have several...

what would you have them do?

Are we watching the same video?

They need to remain calm and survey the area, rushing in blind when visibility is so bad is not going to serve any good

There could've been a bomber for all they know they aren't a bomb squad to make a accurate enough assumption therefore they did the best they could

?!? They are trying to stay calm so they can act effectively and carefully and not make any stupid mistakes. You have zero understanding of what it takes to respond to a major disaster.

They have to figure out what's happening before they send rescue into a situation, at night, in a pile of rubble, that could explode from natural gas at any second, after a building collapsed!!

@@tman1129 Yes but they're very rude to people in a situation where they should be trying to at least reassure them that help is on the way. Basically they either ignore people or they order them about.

I understand they can't just run right in there but when he heard that first woman screaming for help and couldn't get to her, he just walked away not trying to talk to her or anything, he couldn't offer to yell even a "we can't reach you right now but help is on the way"? He's seemingly unphased by people's dying screams right next to him..

Everyone on this response string seems to be of no use, too. All of you would be running away.

Can you imagine the shock of arriving on such a disaster and you’re supposed to be the help people are waiting for? Overwhelming devastation all around you, and the need to evacuate everyone who is still alive. Thinking fueled by adrenaline while knowing the rest of the building could collapse and kill you? After 9/11 such a scenario is imaginable. I’d be scared spitless.

What can they do?

I know, who do you even call in this situation?

that company is going out of business

Very heartbreaking and chilling to think those screams were from victims who later perished. I hope a memorial will be in their honor. 98 lives lost, deserves to never be forgotten.

Those were the ones trapped in the garage that got out

I know right that was what I was thinking bc I heard that too😔

@@angelpaige2143 all the repairs was supposed to b done 2019/2020 but covid happened

Sometimes the owner of the building try to cut corners and expenses by sacrificing safety. Look up the Sampoong department store collapse that happened in South Korea. Whenever a building collapse like this there is always corruption involved.

Whenever you see big cracks and damage in the foundation, always trust your instincts and move out. Never trust the building manager.

Yep, I understand how you feel! I've found some bad-ass condos here in FL, much cheaper than houses, but Im too paranoid and end up backing out, both times.

After this collapse I feel that all the buildings built on that strip are in danger of the same fate. I don’t have confidence that the land it’s built on is stable.

it's 1 building out of millions, you'll be fine.

The collapse was so large, he couldn't tell exactly what was happening.

@J MHow was he a coward, he was doing what he was supposed to. Had he just arrived and started digging because bare hands can lift tons of concrete and break right through it . He actually called for the resources that was needed to start doing the work properly. When you arrived first onscene you are supposed to do a 360 of the incident and call for what you need. Not tunnel vision . Ol keyboard warrior, over here.

Police don’t get training in dealing with Bldg collapses which is why some of the comments are negative like he’s not doing anything etc. He did what he could as the first officer in scene by just giving first hand info of what happened. Aside from removing surface victims there’s not much more he can do

@J M okay libtard

@@silentwishs u can’t just show up and start digging for people u need to access the situation first, plus like taking fruit off the bottem off the pile at the store. If u move something from a very large pile it can create a huge collapse causing people under the pile to be crushed further

The screams and echos are chilling.... But those we hear probably lived. Saddest thing is the silence. Poor, poor souls.

Bear in mind....I'd guess that most of the people in the collapse were already dead or dying, and wouldn't have been easily audible even if they were conscious, buried as they were under layers and layers of concrete. The screams we are hearing are perhaps from the boy who, with his mother, was pulled from the rubble shortly after this, or perhaps from the two other women, mother and daughter, who were in one of the apartments which was torn in half. They fell with the collapse into the standing part of the building and survived. The other people calling for help are survivors trapped in the same remaining part of the building, who were unable to escape due to blocked stairways. Firefighters rescued them from their balconies as the night wore on.

More likely from the several residents who had led people out to escape the building. Family from 11th floor joined by another couple and older neighbor. Believe the older woman referred to as injured was the 88-year old residents carried over some of the debris and out to the beach.

Christine California, well said my friend.

@@denverdubois5835 so many bits and pieces of different account stories about this disaster. I can see multiple different documentaries being made telling their side of the story.

And it will happen again somewhere else 💔