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Colapso de Surfside: Nombran y buscan a sus seres queridos desaparecidos

Liane Morejon, Reporter

Glenna Milberg, Reporter

Michelle Solomon, Podcast Reporter/Digital Producer

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This June 1, 2021 photo provided by Liz Segel shows Estelle Hedaya at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Ikey Hedaya is still waiting for closure almost a month after the Surfside condo collapse. He has given his DNA, talks frequently with the medical examiner and even reluctantly visited the collapse site to see for himself what is being done to find his big sister. Fifty-four-year-old Estelle Hedaya appears to be the only missing victim yet to be identified after the June 24 collapse. (Liz Segel via AP)
Theresa Velasquez, 36, started off as a local nightclub deejay in Miami Beach, and eventually grew into a globally touring deejay/producer eventually starting her own label, Audio4Play. Performing music and touring as a deejay inspired her to learn about the business side of the industry and she went on to earn a music business degree from New York University. She was currently senior vice president of strategic partnerships for Live Nation in Los Angeles. She had arrived in Surfside the night before the collapse to visit her parents Angela Maria and Julio Cesar Velasquez.
Angela Maria Velasquez, 60, a shop owner in the Weston Town Center, her husband, Julio Cesar Velasquez, 67, and her daughter, Theresa Velasquez, 36, were in apartment 304 when the Champlain Towers collapsed. Angela and Theresa were recovered on Thursday, July 8 while Julio's was recovered the next day.
Dr. Brad Cohen, 51, founded Aventura Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine in North Miami Beach. He started out getting a degree in computer science from Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., and then pursued a medical degree in Cincinnati. He was affiliated with Aventura Hospital, Mount Sinai, North Shore Medical Center. His brother, Dr. Gary Cohen, was staying with him in an apartment on the 11th floor and had come to town to visit the brothers' ailing father in Boynton Beach. They both perished in the collapse.
Linda March had moved from Manhattan to Surfside after a tough battle with COVID-19. She had lived in Miami before and thought the nice weather would be good for her health. She rented Penthouse 4 on the top floor of the 12-story condo building.
Anastasia Gromova, 24, came to Surfside from Canada with her friend, Michelle Pazos, to visit Michelle's father in Apartment 412, and have a vacation before she was to leave for Japan. She met her friend when they were juniors at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Anastasia had been accepted to a program to teach English in Japan.
Michelle Anna Pazos, 23, was visiting her father Miguel Ángel Pazos who lived in Apt. 412. She and a friend had come for a vacation from Montreal, Canada, where she lived.
Miguel Ángel Pazos, 55 lived in Apt 412. Born in Cuba, Pazos’ body was recovered on Thursday, July 8.
Luis Fernando Barth Tobar, 51, his wife Catalina Gomez Ramirez, 45, and their 14-year old daughter, Valeria, came from Medellín, Colombia to stay in a friend’s apartment at Champlain Towers South. They were in South Florida to get the COVID-19 vaccine and to visit family. Luis and Catalina were recovered on Thursday, July 10, and Valaria, 14, on Friday, July 11. Luis was well-known in Colombia. An attorney, he had run a technology and innovation district in Medellín. Catalina was also an attorney.
Maria Gabriela Camou Font and her husband of four decades Miguel Leonardo Kaufman were scheduled to return to Montevideo, Uruguay, but stayed a little longer to have more time with their family.
Mihai Radulescu, 83, and Maria Popa Radulescu, 80, lived in Apartment 404. Friends described them as a beautiful couple and full of life. Mihai would have turned 84 on July 31.
Moises Rodan, 28, was in Apartment 403 when the Champlain Towers South collapsed. A native of Caracas, Venezuela, he had graduated just a month before from the University of Florida, where he received a bachelor's degree in computer engineering in May.
40-year-old Cassondra Billedeau Stratton was on the phone with her husband, Colorado political strategist Michael Stratton, when the Champlain Towers South collapsed. She was standing on a fourth-floor balcony at the building when her husband said she described seeing an outdoor swimming pool one level below her cave in. Her husband described her as a "bright and kind soul with an adventurous spirit." He said his wife split her time between Florida and Colorado. She was identified as recovered on July 10, 2021.
Raymond and Mercedes "Mercy" Urgelles, both 61, lived in Apt. 211 of the Champlain Towers South. Mercedes was director of Pharmacy Services at Coral Gables Hospital. The couple had lived in the building for about seven years, family members said.
Andres Levine was in Apartment 403 when the Surfside condo building collapsed. He emigrated from Venezuela to Miami seven years ago and was planning on getting married in August. He was in the same apartment as high school friend Moises Rodan, who was also killed in the collapse.
Judy Spiegel, 65, was in Apartment 603 when the South tower collapsed. Her husband, Kevin, was not inside the condo they purchased almost five years before the tragedy. He had flown to California for work after they spent Father's Day together. Judy Spiegel's legacy lives on, in many places, family and friends say, especially in Chattanooga, Tenn., where the couple lived for ten years. Judy was the creator of the hospital’s now annual fundraiser gala, the Believe Bash, which supports the Children’s Hospital.
Arnie Notkin, 87, and Myriam Caspi Notkin, 81, met more than 40 years after she emigrated from Cuba. She was a widow with three daughters when they married and the couple had been together 20 years. Myriam had worked as a banker and real estate agent and Arnie was a physical education teacher for many years in Miami Beach and was known as someone who “always had a story to tell.” The couple lived in Apartment 302.
Argentinian Fabian Nunez had come to Surfside with his husband and daughter. The couple wanted to get COVID-19 shots and were staying in a friend's apartment on the eighth floor.
Margarita “Maggie” Vazquez Bello lived in Apt. 411. Soon after the collapse, her family said she had a home in Pinecrest, but stayed at the Champlain Towers in the summer months.
Sophia Lopez Moreira, the sister of Paraguay's first lady, her husband Luis Pettengill and their three children, Luis, 3, Anna Sophia, 6, and Alexia Maria, 9, all perished in the collapse at Surfside.
Alfredo Leone, 48, and his son, Lorenzo, 5, did not survive when their fifth floor apartment collapsed at the Champlain Towers South. Their bodies were recovered on Thursday, July 8. Leone's wife and Lorenzo's mother, Raquel, was visiting her mother in Colorado when the tragedy struck.
His wife and 16-year-old daughter survived the collapse from their ninth floor condo with injuries after they fell to the fifth floor. But Edgar Gonzalez ended up being lost in the collapse. The 42-year-old's body was recovered from the rubble on Thursday, July 8.
University of Miami law graduate, and her husband, Luis Sadovnic, lived in apartment 804 of the Surfside condominium complex. Andrew Dawson, the law school’s vice dean for academic affairs, taught Langesfeld for two semesters in 2018. “She was really bright, but she was also just a bright presence in the classroom because she brought joy to it.”
Benny Weisz, 31, and his wife, Malky, 27, arrived in Surfside from Lakewood, N.J., the night of the building collapse to visit Malky's father Harold "Harry" Rosenberg. The couple had been married for five years. Benny worked in finance and Malky worked as an auditor in an accounting firm.
Harold "Harry" Rosenberg lost his wife to cancer and his parents to COVID-19 in New York. So, he came to Surfside for a fresh start, friends say. His daughter, Malky Weisz, 27. and her husband, Benny Weisz, 31, were visiting from New Jersey when the building collapsed.
The Foreign Ministry of Paraguay reports 6 Paraguayan nationals are missing in the collapse, according to ABC News. They named 3 individuals: Luis Pettengill, Sophia López-Moreira, and Leidy Luna Villalba, 23, (pictured) and three children. Leidy, 23, was working as a nanny for the family. Being in Surfside was the first time she had ever left Paraguay. Her body was recovered on Wednesday, July 7.
Ilan Naibryf, who was born in Argentina, was in his fourth year at University of Chicago, where he was pursuing a degree in physics with a minor in molecular engineering. Naibryf had been visiting Surfside with his girlfriend, Deborah Berezdivin, a graduate student at George Washington University. He followed her to Surfside to support her during the funeral of family friend who had died from COVID-19.
Bhavna Patel, 36, and Vishal Patel, 42, moved into Champlain Towers South two years ago. Their niece Sarina Patel told CNN that Bhavna Patel was four months pregnant. The couple's one-year-old daughter, Aishani, was also inside the apartment when the building collapsed.
Ruslan Manashirov, 26, and Nicole Doran-Manashirov, lived in unit 703. They moved into the building in April two months before the collapse. Ruslan was a neurologist and Nicole was a physician's assistant.
Dr. Gary Cohen, a physician in Tuscaloosa, Ala., was staying with his brother, Dr. Brad Cohen, on the 11th floor of the Champlain Towers Condo when it collapsed. When faced with the possibility of losing both her sons, their mother, Debra, said: "They are irreplaceable."
Graciela Cattarossi, 48, Estella, 7, Graciela Cattarossi, 86, and Gino Cattarossi, 89, Apt. 501, all died in the Surfside collapse. Another daughter, Andrea, was visiting her family and was in the apartment when the Champlain Tower South collapsed.
Andrea Cattarossi was 56 years old. She was visiting her sister, Graciela, and her parents when the Surfside Champlain Towers collapsed. Andrea was an architect in Pilar, Argentina, and was the mother of 3.
Jay Kleiman had come from Puerto Rico to stay with his mother, Nancy Kress Levin, and to attend the funeral of a friend who died from coronavirus. His brother, Frankie, lived down the hall from their mother. They were in Apt. 712 when the Surfside condo collapsed. Jay, a musician, had just released his third album three months before the tragedy.
Family members said that Francis Fernandez Plasencia, 67, was visiting friends in Apt. 411 when the collapse happened. The day of the tragedy, her family sent a picture of the mother of 3 asking for it to be posted in the online gallery and on television. "Please help us by showing her picture; this will give us a small glimmer of hope. "
Manuel "Manny" LaFont, 54, owned apartment 801. He coached his son's baseball team, the Astros, at North Shore Park, just a mile away from the Surfside condo. A friend on Facebook posted that LaFont was "the life of the party."
Tzvi Ainsworth, 68, and Ingrid 66, were among the bodies recovered from Champlain Towers South on July 5. According to the Jewish News, the couple had 7 children and lived in Australia for nearly 20 years. Family said they moved to South Florida to be closer to their children and grandchildren.
Claudio Bonnefoy, 85 and Maria Obias-Bonnefoy, 69, lived on the 10th floor of Champlain Towers South. Maria and Claudio Bonnefoy had worked in Washington, D.C., where Maria was was the Senior Budget Officer for the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, while Claudio was legal counsel.
Marcus Joseph Guara, his wife, Ana, and daughters, 11-year-old Lucia and 4-year-old Emma, died when Champlain Towers South collapsed. Friends say they were dedicated parishioners of St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Miami Beach.
21-year-old Andreas Giannitsopoulous was visiting his father’s best friend, Manny LaFont, when the building collapsed. Giannitsopoulous from Houston, Texas, was studying Economics at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn.
Frankie Kleiman, 55, was identified on Monday, June 28. Kleiman was in Apartment 702. A newlywed, he had was married to Anna Ortiz whose body has been recovered.
Luis Bermudez, 26, and his mother Ana Ortiz, 46, were in an apartment on the seventh floor when the building collapsed. "My Luiyo. You gave me everything," wrote his father, who is also named Luis Bermudez, on Facebook.
Stacie Dawn Fang was the first victim to be recovered from the rubble. Her son, 15, (not pictured) was pulled from the collapse and survived.
Leon Oliwkowicz, 80, and Christina Beatriz Elvia (Oliwkowicz), 74, lived in apartment 704 in the beachfront condo. The couple was originally from Venezuela.
Gladys, 79, and Antonio Lozano, 83, would have celebrated their 59th wedding anniversary in July.
Bonnie and David Epstein lived in apartment 901. Friends say they were snowbirds from the northeast who were enjoying early retirement. Bonnie was 56, David was 58. Their only son, Jonathan, lives in New York.
Simon Segal, 80, lived in apartment 1203, and spent his career as a structural engineer, even consulting for the state of Florida. In a tragic irony, he died in the Champlain Towers building collapse.
Michael David Altman, 50, was in Apartment 1101 when the Champlain Towers South collapsed. Family had written to Local 10 soon after the tragedy to say they had checked hospitals and filed a missing persons report.
Hilda Noriega, the 92-year-old mother of North Bay Village Police Chief Carlos Noriega, was pulled from the rubble in Surfside on Tuesday, June 29. She lived in apartment 602 for more than two decades.
Elaine Sabino, 71, was in Penthouse 10, when the Champlain Towers South collapsed on June 24. The US Airways Jet Blue flight attendant's sister, who lives in Daytona Beach, described Elaine as vivacious with a bigger-than-life personality.
Richard Augustine, 77, was in Penthouse 10 when the Champlain Towers collapsed. The Chicago native had just returned home from a trip to California to see his son and went back to his Surfside condo to repack to visit his daughter in Chicago. He was supposed to have left the day the tower collapsed earlier that morning.
Juan Alberto Mora and wife, Ana, were reported missing in the collapse at Surfside. Juan and Ana were both recovered on Wednesday, July 7. They lived in Apartment 1011, which faced the Atlantic Ocean.
Beatriz "Betty" Rodriguez Guerra, 52, and Oresme Gil Guerra, 60, lived on the 9th floor, according to friends, who say the couple had only lived in the building for a few months. The couple had been married for almost 4 years. Both their bodies were recovered on Thursday, July 8.
Richard "Ricky" Rovirosa, 60, and Maria Teresa Rovirosa, 58, perished in the collapse at the Champlain Towers condominium. Maria's body was recovered on Wednesday, July 7, while Richard was recovered on Thursday, July 8. A friend of Maria's said, "She would take what she had and give it to everybody."
Magaly Delgado, 80, lived in the Champlain Towers South for about 10 years before the collapse of the Surfside building. She lived on the ninth floor of the condo.

Liz Segel

This June 1, 2021 photo provided by Liz Segel shows Estelle Hedaya at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Ikey Hedaya is still waiting for closure almost a month after the Surfside condo collapse. He has given his DNA, talks frequently with the medical examiner and even reluctantly visited the collapse site to see for himself what is being done to find his big sister. Fifty-four-year-old Estelle Hedaya appears to be the only missing victim yet to be identified after the June 24 collapse. (Liz Segel via AP)

SURFSIDE, Fla. – El jueves 24 de junio, alrededor de 55 de las 135 unidades en Champlain Towers South colapsaron alrededor de la 1:30 a.m. aquí están las historias de las víctimas que permanecen desaparecidos.

Bhavna, Aishani y Vishal Patel: La familia Patel vivió en la unidad 311.

Margarita “Maggie” Vázquez Bello, Apt. 411: Su familia dice que vive en Pinecrest, pero se queda en las Torres Champlain en los meses de verano. Están “desesperadamente aferrados a la esperanza de encontrarla”.

Edgar González, 45: Según miembros de la familia, la esposa y la hija de González están hospitalizadas en el Ryder Trauma Center de Jackson Memorial, pero no pueden comunicarse con él. Los tres estaban en la misma unidad cuando ocurrió el colapso. No está claro cómo se separó la familia.

Miembros de The Shul en Surfside: el rabino Sholom D. Lipskar de The Shul en Surfside dice que varios miembros de la sinagoga están desaparecidos. “Hay muy pocas palabras que puedan consolar a alguien porque estás lidiando con una tragedia horrible e inimaginable que ocurrió en medio de la noche”, apuntó Lipskar.

· Nancy Kress Levin

· Jay Kleinman

· Arie Lieb

· Yisroel Tzvi Yosef

· Tzvi Doniel

Fabián, Andrés y su hija Sofía, apto. 803: La dueña de un apartamento originaria de Argentina le dijo a Glenna Milberg de Local 10 que tenía amigos dentro de su unidad. Ese dueño no ha podido contactar a la familia.

Deborah Berezdivin e Ilan Naibryf: Figura como uno de los miembros de Shul of Bal Harbour desaparecidos. Los familiares dijeron que Ilan Naibryf, su novio, también está desaparecido.

Cassondra Stratton: Una mujer angustiada declaró a Local 10 News que la amiga de su hija está desaparecida y que el esposo de ella está volando desde Colorado.

Sophia López: López viajó aquí desde Uruguay con sus hijas. Su familia no ha podido ponerse en contacto con ella.

La familia Pettengill: Luis Alberto Pettengill y Sophia María Margarita Pettengill y sus hijos Anna Sophia, de 6 años, Alexia María, de 9, y Luis Vincente, de amigos dicen que son de Paraguay y no se han comunicado con ellos desde el colapso.

Ray and Mercy Urgelles, Apt. 211: Mercy Urgelles es la directora de farmacia del Hospital Coral Gables, según sus amigos. Ella y su esposo, Ray. Ambos siguen en paradero desconocido.

Brad Cohen: Soraya Cohen dijo que su esposo estaba en el undécimo piso cuando el edificio se derrumbó. Ella tiene esperanzas de que el médico sea encontrado con vida después de que ella cree que posiblemente podría haberse quedado atrás para ayudar a la gente.

Magally Delgado: Magally Ramsey describe a su madre, Magally Delgado, como una mujer fuerte de 80 años que vivía en un apartamento en el noveno piso. Su hija condujo inmediatamente a Surfside desde Orlando, cuando se enteró de que era el edificio en el que vivía su madre el que se había derrumbado.

Linda March, Ph. 4: Local 10 emitió un vídeo de la zona expuesta del derrumbe del condominio de Surfside. Ese vídeo mostraba unas literas blancas y una silla de escritorio. Momentos después, se contactó con la reportera de Local 10 News Glenna Milberg y se le dijo que el apartamento del ático pertenece a Linda March, una abogada que se mudó de Nueva York a Surfside. La amiga dijo que han estado enviando mensajes de texto a March, pero no han recibido respuesta.

Bennie y Malky Weiss y Harry Rosenberg: Amigos dicen que Harry Rosenberg estaba visitando a su hija Malky Weiss en Champlain Towers. Rosenberg y Malky y su marido Benny están desaparecidos en este momento.

Alfredo y Lorenzo Leone, Apto. 512: Un amigo cercano de la familia Leone narró que la esposa de Alfredo y la madre de Lorenzo no estaban en casa en el momento del derrumbe, pero que los otros dos están desaparecidos.

Oresme Gil Guerra y Betty Guerra: Según sus amigos, la pareja reside en el piso 9, pero no se ha sabido de ellos desde el derrumbe del edificio.

Julio César Velásquez, Ángela María Velásquez y Theresa Velásquez, Apto. 304: Una amiga de Theresa Velásquez, de 36 años, escribió al Local 10 para decir que estaba visitando a sus padres desde donde vivía en Los Ángeles. Sus padres, Julio César Velásquez, de 67 años, y Ángela María Velásquez, de 60, vivían en Champlain Towers South en el Apartamento 304 y no se ha sabido nada de todos desde el colapso.

Nicole y Ruslan Manashirov, Apt. 703: Los amigos dicen que la pareja se mudó a Apt. 703 de Champlain Tower South hace dos meses después de que se casaron. Dijeron que Ruslan no se presentó al trabajo el jueves y que nadie ha podido comunicarse con ninguno de ellos.

Judy Spiegel, 65, Apto. 603: La hija de Judy Spiegel, Rachel, habló con su madre alrededor de las 9:30 p.m. del miércoles. No ha sabido nada de ella desde entonces.

Simon Segal: La sobrina de Simon Segal envió una foto de su tío que vive en el piso 11 de las Torres Champlain y dice que la familia espera que el envío de su foto ayude a encontrarlo.

Rosi Maza-Saez: Sus seres queridos dicen que ella no vivía en el edificio, pero se estaba quedando durante la noche cuando ocurrió el colapso.

Gonzalo y María Torres: Gonzalo y María Torres vivían en el apartamento 912. Miembros de la Iglesia Católica San José en Miami Beach, el cuerpo de Gonzalo Torres, de 81 años, fue recuperado el 2 de julio. María sigue desaparecida.

Richard Augustine y Elaine Sabino: Ambos estaban en PH10 cuando ocurrió el colapso.

Nicole Langesfeld y Louis Sadovnic, Apto. 804: Nicole, de 26 años, vivía en el apartamento 804 de champlain Towers South con su esposo Louis. Los Langesfeld dicen que creen en los milagros, y que las oraciones continuas de la comunidad son críticas. “Estoy orando todos los días”, dijo Pablo Langesfeld, el padre de Nicole. “. . . Queremos un milagro. Queremos Louis de vuelta. Queremos a Nicole de vuelta”.

Ricky and Maituca Rovirosa

Myriam Caspi Notkin and Arnie Notkin

Juan Alberto Mora and Ana Mora

Ciudadanos de cuatro países extranjeros: Actualmente hay ciudadanos de al menos cuatro países extranjeros -Uruguay, Venezuela, Chile, Colombia, Argentina y Paraguay- con paradero desconocido en el derrumbe del edificio Surfside. El Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Paraguay informa que hay 6 ciudadanos paraguayos desaparecidos en el derrumbe, según ABC News. Nombraron a 3 personas: Luis Pettengill, Sophia López-Moreira, y Lady Luna Villalba y hay 3 menores no identificados.

Recuperados:

· Gonzalo Torres’: 81 años; recuperado 07/02/2021

· Claudio Bonnefoy: 81 años; recuperado 07/02/2021

· Maria Obias-Bonnefoy: 69 años; recuperada 07/02/2021

· Graciela Cattarossi: 48 años; recuperada 07/02/2021

· Estella Cattarossi: 7 años; recuperada 07/02/2021

· Magaly Elena Delgado, 80 años; recuperada 06/30/2021

· Bonnie Epstein: 56 años; recuperada 06/30/2021

· Lucia Guara: 10 años; recuperada 06/30/2021

· Emma Guara: 4 años; recuperada 06/30/2021

· Anaely Rodriguez, 42 años; recuperada 6/30/2021

· Andreas Giannitsopoulos, 21 años; recuperado 6/30/2021

· Hilda Noriega, 92 años; recuperada 6/29/2021

· Michael David Altman; 50 años; recuperado 6/28/2021

· Frank Kleiman: 55 años; recuperado 6/28/2021

· Marcus Joseph Guara: 52 años; recuperado 6/26/2021

·Leon Oliwkowicz: 80 años; recuperado 6/26/2021

· Luis Bermudez: 26 años; recuperado 6/26/2021

· Anna Ortiz: 46 años; recuperada 6/26/2021

· Christina Beatriz Elvira: 74 años; recuperada 6/27/2021

· Stacie Dawn Fang: 54 años; recuperada 6/24/2021

· Antonio Lozano, 83 años; recuperado 6/24/2021

· Gladys Lozano, 79 años; recuperada 6/25/2021

· Manuel “Manny” LaFont, 54 años; recuperado 6/25/2021

Se ha establecido una línea directa de reunificación familiar al 305-614-1819 , y las personas también pueden abrir un Informe de persona desaparecida en línea.

Si vives en Champlain Towers en 8777 Collins Ave., te recomendamos que llenes este Formulario de verificación de bienestar como parte de los esfuerzos para garantizar que todos los inquilinos del edificio estén ubicados.

Un Centro de Asistencia Familiar está abierto en el Centro Recreativo de Surfside en 9301 Collins Ave. para las personas que no pueden ubicar a sus familiares que viven en el edificio.

Para obtener más información sobre los recursos del condado, haz clic aquí.

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Liane Morejon is an Emmy-winning reporter who joined the Local 10 News family in January 2010. Born and raised in Coral Gables, Liane has a unique perspective on covering news in her own backyard.

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Glenna Milberg joined Local 10 News in September 1999 to report on South Florida's top stories and community issues. She also serves as co-host on Local 10's public affairs broadcast, "This Week in South Florida."

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