Building inspector was on roof of Florida condo hours before collapse

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://nypost.com/2021/06/26/surfside-inspector-was-on-roof-of-condo-
hours-before-collapse/

The Surfside town building official was on the roof of the beachfront
condo 14 hours before half of the building collapsed.

Jim McGuinness said during an emergency meeting that he was on the roof to
inspect work of replacing roof anchors, used by window cleaners to attach
their equipment, the Palm Beach Post reported.

Hours after his inspection of the roof at Champlain Towers South, at
around 1:30 a.m. Thursday, one leg of the L-shaped 12-story tower
pancaked, killing at least four people and leaving at least 159
unaccounted for. Rescuers have had little luck combing through the pile
for survivors, and no one has been found alive since Thursday morning.

“There was no inordinate amount of equipment or materials or anything on
that roof that caught my building official’s eye that would make it
alarming as to this place collapsing,” McGunniess said during the meeting
Friday afternoon.

“I have two words for the cause of this: under investigation.”

The town commission also said during the meeting that it is looking into
what may be done to ensure other high-rise buildings are safe. That likely
means inspecting buildings, including the sister tower of the one that
collapsed, which was also built in 1981.

“It would be imprudent not to take some types of steps to address that
issue with the sister building,” Mayor Charles Burkett said during the
meeting.

Some residents of the other building, Champlain Towers North, have asked
officials if their building is safe, and the town is considering moving
them out, even if it’s not convenient.

“But given we have no idea what caused this collapse — and listen, the
chances of that happening again are like lightning striking — but I don’t
know that there’s anybody in this room that would be willing to roll the
dice with all those lives and say, let’s not worry about it for a while,”
he said.

One commissioner at the meeting said the town needs to increase the
requirements for its recertification process, which now includes a series
of inspections every building must complete every 40 years. The collapsed
tower was in the midst of that proces

McGuinness agreed. “Hurricane Andrew changed the Florida building codes
forever,” he said, ABC News reported. “So this terrible tragedy, which is
a national tragedy, is going to change the building codes as they relate
to certification.”


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