Surfside Building Victim Rescue Concludes But Missing Woman Missing Without Trace

Estelle Hedaya talked "even with the walls", took dance classes and, after traveling the world, dreamed of living next to the beach.

"I had told the universe that I wanted to live in Miami and boom, here I am living my dreams," he wrote on the blog where he recounted his adventures, according to The Washington Post newspaper

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Hedaya, 54, a native of New York, had moved six years ago to a building a few feet from the ocean, from where she planned new expeditions with her friends, the same building in Surfside that almost a month ago suddenly collapsed in the middle. of the night killing almost a hundred people.

So far 96 bodies have been recovered from the rubble, which have already been completely removed by rescue teams, but there is still one missing person about whom nothing is known: Hedaya. 

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July 11, 202100: 28

Following the June 24 landslide,

"the worst unnatural disaster in Florida history,"

according to Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, rescue efforts were intense and continuous.

More than 200 experts from multiple countries worked 24 hours a day, barely resting and eating, to find survivors in the rubble.

[An end to the search for survivors in Surfside is announced.

Now they will focus on recovering the bodies]

But with the passing of the hours, and then the days, and then the weeks,

the chances of finding living people plummeted.

On July 7, the search for survivors changed to one for body recovery.

Family members continued to meet in a center set up by the authorities a few blocks away to inform them of the bad news.

Now the center has closed, but, in the case of Hedaya, her relatives have not even received that bitter relief yet of being able to bury their loved one and close an important stage in the mourning process.

Hedaya was a devout Jewess and her mother said that, unable to observe Shiva and carry out the sacred traditions for burial, she felt that her daughter was not resting because "she is not where she should be," reported the aforementioned newspaper.

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Now what remains of the Champlain Towers South building is a concrete slab surrounded by orange cones, from which some cables and a mutilated column emerge.

Rescue teams have examined 26 million pounds of concrete and debris, and are now searching among those that moved off-site for debris.

The cause of the collapse is still unknown.

"We continue to look with tremendous care and diligence and work closely with religious leaders as we have since the beginning of this process," "the mayor said Wednesday.

But, he added,

"in landslides like this it is unfortunately very difficult to recover all the remains."

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Hedaya's co-workers say they miss the rumble of her heavy New York accent through the halls of Continental Buying Group, a jewelry company where within six years she became COO.

"I hate him, it's all too quiet now,"

said Joe Murphy, president of the company, according to The Washington Post.

Rescue personnel work through the rubble at the Champlain Towers South condominium, Friday, June 25, 2021, in Surfside.AP Photo / Gerald Herbert

Her relatives know that it is unrealistic, they told the newspaper, but they like to think that perhaps, somehow, Hedaya managed to get out on time, or she was not there that night, and that she is on a beach drinking tequila, laughing and enjoying herself. life as he knew how to do it.