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SURFSIDE, Florida — An engineer found evidence of major structural damage beneath the pool deck and “concrete deterioration” in the underground parking garage of a Florida 12-story condominium in a 2018 report, three years before it collapsed without warning this week as most residents slept.
Search-and-rescue teams were working around the clock on Saturday in Surfside, a shore town near Miami, through an unstable mountain of debris looking for the 159 people still unaccounted for, though the prospects of recovering further survivors appeared to be growing dimmer by the hour.
The death toll, now at four, was certain to rise, with each floor…
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