Interactive Aerial Tour: Champlain Towers South Condominiums
On June 24, 2021, at approximately 1:30 a.m. EDT, Champlain Towers South, a 12-story beachfront condominium building in the Miami suburb of Surfside, Florida, partially collapsed. At least 11 people died, and 11 others were injured, as a result of the collapse. About 35 people were rescued from the uncollapsed portion of the building, two people have been rescued from the rubble, and 150 people remain missing as rescue operations continue.
The Champlain Towers South building suffered a partial pancake collapse at about 1:30 a.m. EDT on June 24, 2021. Surveillance footage indicates that a large north-central section of the building collapsed first, which isolated a section at the northeast corner of the building; it collapsed approximately nine seconds later. 55 of the 136 units in the building were destroyed.