MIAMI ALERT: Structural Damage Increasing Danger

 Screen Shot from A7 

So far the count is up to 18 found. BIDEN said he thinks he could cover the cost to Surfside

MIAMI UPDATE: Work of the IDF Front Command – Photos and Mapping

Work of the IDF Front Command:

Over the last few days, additional members of the Home Front Command have joined the IDF and Israeli Foreign Ministry delegation in Miami. Joining the delegation were rescuers, engineers and population behavior officers, who are in Miami to reinforce and assist the delegation members who arrived last week.

To assist the effort, the operational analysis team of the Intelligence Directorate’s “Unit 9900”, which specializes in visual intelligence, built a three-dimensional (3-D) model that maps the collapsed building in order to streamline the process of locating the missing persons at the site of the disaster.

3D Model can be seen here 3D Model 

The initial delegation arrived at the destruction site in the first 72 hours after the building collapsed. As of today, the Israeli delegation has 15 members at the site. The delegation is helping coordinate two main activities at the scene. The first is to assist the Miami first responders with rescue efforts, aided by the 3-D mapping of the building. The second activity of the delegation is the humanitarian effort, in which IDF officers from the Home Front Command help and support the families of missing persons in the area. The activity of the Home Front Command delegation will continue as long as needed.

At the same time, staff from the Israeli Consulate, headed by the Consul General, are working with local authorities, families and heads of the Jewish community to examine other ways in which the IDF can help, such as offering emotional support for families and for the community at large.

Lt. “N”, Commander of the Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 9900 team involved with the delegation:

“I routinely command a special team in Unit 9900 that builds 3D models for IDF operational activities. In recent days, the Unit’s members have been using advanced technological capabilities to assist the Home Front Command delegation in Miami. We analyzed the collapsed building and built a three-dimensional model of the structure. Our model will allow the Home Front Command delegation to further assist in the rescue efforts and navigate through the rubble more quickly and effectively. We are grateful for the privilege and responsibility to take part in such an important international effort.”

‘We’re Here To Save Lives, We Have Advanced Technology’

 Oh, gosh, names are beginning to appear of beautiful good Jews from the NY area.

We must all thank G–D for every minute and every clean breath of air we are allowed to inhale

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Oz Jino, commander of the Israeli Home Front rescue workers who are working at the site of the Surfside tower collapse, spoke in an interview with the Walla site about the role of his workers. “We are altogether 18 soldiers and officers from the Home Front who came to the site of the collapse. We’re here to save lives or G-d forbid to remove bodies or for any other task required. We have advanced intelligence capabilities which enable us to help the Americans to focus the rescue work. Our engineers are specialists in rescue engineering and have a lot of experience of such situations.”

Jino was asked what was visible at the site and said: “I see a building whose west facade is unscathed. Whoever looks from the west would not see that anything happened. The other side is shocking- 13 floors which collapsed one onto the other into the basement. Seven floors are above ground and six floors collapsed underground. Its a complex situation, with very few pockets of air and therefore less chances of survival.

“There is a lot of heavy engineering equipment. The Americans are here with huge forces and their elite rescue teams together with local firemen. They put together an enormous logistic effort. We are integrated into the American teams, we are helping them also by sending back to Israel information using advanced technologies. Our advantage is our ability to assess the building using top-level information systems from our base in Israel.

“At this very moment our team are working on one of the apartments, there are two groups above the apartment but we have a limited time at the site, we’ll be here until midnight. We haven’t yet extricated bodies but yesterday a body was extricated and just a few minutes ago another was extricated. We believe we will see the site more clearly in the next 24 hours.”

Jino expressed optimism that people could still be saved: “it’s raining a lot here and this allows water to seep inside which could enable people to survive, but the collapse happened in a way which made less pockets of air inside. Despite the way things look we are assuming that people trapped inside could be saved and working meticulously to find them. For us as Jews the dignity of the dead is no less important than that of the living.”

https://vinnews.com/2021/06/30/head-of-israeli-delegation-to-miami-were-here-to-save-lives-we-have-advanced-technology/

MIAMI NOTICE

The FIRST SUBSTANTIVE information, encouraging…not

The commander of the Israeli National Rescue Unit said Tuesday the collapsed bedrooms from the Champlain Towers South building are under 13 to 16 feet of concrete.

“This building collapsed very, very badly, if I can use this word, because it collapsed into itself. And the bedrooms that we are looking for, because the people [slept] in the bedrooms are under four or five meters of concrete,” Col. Golan Vach, commander of the Israeli National Rescue Unit, told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Tuesday.

Vach said his team is comprised of 15 people who are mostly engineers and search and rescue experts. He said his team found new spaces in the rubble to search Monday and Tuesday.

“So there is still hope,” Vach said. “Until one week, I have a solid hope that we will find someone. After one week, it’s minor.”

He said he had never seen a collapse like the one at Champlain Towers South.

“This is the most difficult site I have ever worked but I still have hope,” Vach said noting there are “major dangers and issues that we must consider when we enter rescuers into this site.”

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This is the THIRD LARGEST Building (demolition) in the entire US (Oklahoma and NY being the other two).

Over THREE MILLION Pounds Of Concrete Removed From Condo Collapse Site

Interview with Col. Zach

Amazing Moving Video of Miami Tragedy Area

SCREENSHOT ABOVE of MUST SEE VIDEO AT 

https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/featured/1986630/ywn-exclusive-update-on-rescue-efforts-from-hatzalah-of-south-florida.html

Miami Interviews: Rabbi Sholom Lipsker Shlit”a, Bal Harbour Mayor ...PLUS PLUS

 He should be well ad meah v’esrim

As the Rabbi said, this was a very close-knit philanthropic community

The Paraguay First Lady is searching for her sister who may be in the rubble

Jewish community unifies to help families harmed by collapse disaster

Gabriel Groisman, Mayor of Bal Harbour: Families begged that the Israelis come to help

FORGIVE MY IGNORANCE, BUT I hope one takes this observation of mine with the sincere compassion it is made. I would think that rescue and search should work closer to the debris found at the bottom of the building, which happens to be a higher mound. Because, I would imagine that there would be more victims found there. The first ten or so floors would I am guessing are to be found there. The upper floors would fall farther away. 

I don’t know who is managing this “search” but it may be that the Israeli Team that has extensive experience would be allowed to forward their opinion about where and how to look. It seems, from varying comments, that there is a strong feeling of “we will take care of our citizens and we know what we’re doing.” However, when  you look at the videos of the area, and the men working, they’re not close enough to the building itself. 

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Here is a thinking man, a smart man, coming to an independent opinion:

Binyamina Davens for Miami Victims and Families

 

Warning Signs MIAMI UPDATE

Sudden stoppage of NJ building's Shabbat elevator sparks lawsuit

Elevator was essential for elderly and disabled observant residents to leave their apartments on Shabbat and holidays.

Eleven Jewish residents of The Colony, a 32-floor full-service cooperative apartment building in Fort Lee, New Jersey are suing the building, its board members and its management company alleging religious discrimination.

They are also arguing that some of the residents’ rights have been violated under the reasonable accommodation clause due to handicap with regard to the building.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/308613

Belgium to remove military protecting Jews even amidst rising antisemitism

Belgian government reducing military presence in Jewish neighborhoods and institutions across the country

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/belgium-to-remove-military-protecting-jews-even-amidst-rising-antisemitism-671830

Someone 911’d a Miami Condo?

From one video captured of the actual demolition of the back half of the Condo, one can see flashes of light before, during and slightly after the building “pancaked down”. I wonder who lived in one of those that 55 apartments? Was this a warning to the Governor?

Witness Report:

A GAPING HOLE OF RUBBLE'

Witness Barry Cohen thought the sound of the building collapsing was "lightning" as he and his wife were asleep. The couple went onto their balcony, then opened the door to the building's hallway to find “a pile of rubble and dust and smoke billowing around.”. . . “I couldn’t walk out past my doorway,” said Cohen, the former vice mayor of Surfside.

“A gaping hole of rubble.”

“This was not an act of God,” Surfside Town Commissioner Eliana Salzhauer told USA Today. “This was not a natural disaster. Buildings don’t just fall.””

Even though we believing Jews know everything that happens in this world is known by HaShem, there is always someone on the ground responsible!

I saw somewhere that someone called this a “CRUSH” .... sound familiar?

ANOTHER SIGN ON THE HORIZON

Biden Admin. walks back recognition of Golan Heights!

Undoing everything Trump did for ISRAEL is their main goal.