MIAMI — A multi-story apartment block in Florida partially collapsed during Thursday’s early hours, sparking a major emergency response.
Online videos showed a large portion of the 12-story building in the town of Surfside — just north of Miami Beach –reduced to rubble, with the apartments’ interiors exposed.
It was unclear how many people lived in the building or who had been inside at the time, but local news station NBC 6 South Florida reported that firefighters pulled one boy from the rubble alive.
Emergency services sent dozens of response units to the scene, near to the local beach.
Miami Beach Police Department said its officers were “assisting the Tow…
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