— Crews searching in the rubble at the Champlain Towers South Condominium in Surfside, Florida, will shift from a rescue effort to a recovery operation, the mayor of Miami-Dade County announced at a news conference Wednesday.
Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said that eight more bodies were recovered, pushing the confirmed death total to 54.
Three of the victims identified Wednesday were engineer Simon Segal, 80, and Graciela Cattarossi, 86, and Gino Cattarossi, 89, the Miami-Dade Police Department tweeted.
“When we say recovery, people think that means a big bulldozer comes and takes all debris to a big warehouse … it’s not the reality,” Israeli Col.
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