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Microwizard thanks for pointing out that time, that was from a Miami Herald article and I will remove that reference to the time. Regarding accuracy, that is why I have grouped corroborating quotes together. I do think there is quite a lot to be learned from witness statements to the press...

There has been a lot of telephone game and paraphrasing of witness statements both in the media and on this thread - but because they were on the spot what they saw and experienced is extremely important and needs to be accurately documented. The most accurate news stories I read were from the...

jbourne8 no, it is too large to be a planter at that distance. It is the column.

jbourne8 your mention of column labeled 39/40 in the garage resulted in being able to reinterpret this as an uninterrupted view of the fallen pool deck, but the column is further back in the image. I did lighten and color enhance an image (not remembering now if it’s one I pulled from the forum...

Auri, those are three beams that were above the garage level columns that were just to the east of the garage entrance, see photo below. I can only assume that when that last part of the building came down, the columns were reduced to rubble and only the beams were left, but we have no way of...

Optical98, the most important thing the photos you found show is that at some point the entire ceiling of the entry driveway fell down, falling onto a vehicle parked there. This had to happen after residents were able to safely exit out of the front door after the pool deck and part of the...

Another photo to explain the area near the pool has looked like this for some time…this is an image taken prior to the 4th when the rest of the building was brought down. Again photo quality not the greatest.

Video still from the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue behind-the-scenes look from yesterday. I wonder what will be left to analyze as it does appear that the area of interest regards the collapse has/is being addressed with heavy machinery and cleared. The picture quality of the video unfortunately was...

My apologies for joining your forum when I am not an engineer (my name is a clue to my professional interest); I wanted to post this information regarding the location of a video of rescue efforts right after the collapse. The first photo is from this video. I have enhanced the photo. The...