Jewish man describes escaping Florida tower: Building collapse took a few minutes

27 June 2021, 9:14 pm

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Gavriel Nir, whose family escaped the Florida apartment bloc collapse, June 27, 2021. (Channel 13 screenshot)

A young Jewish man describes to Israel’s Channel 13 news how he and his family escaped likely death in the collapse of the high-rise residential building where they lived in Surfside, Florida.

Gavriel Nir tells the network that the collapse occurred in three stages and took a few minutes. First, he and his family heard noise from above and saw dust falling. They then heard a boom that they thought was an earthquake and rushed out of the building. Finally, from outside, they saw the collapse, with white clouds of dust following them as they ran.

“If it wasn’t for my mom, it would have been very bad… she figured out something was not right,” Nir says.