When searchers used heavy equipment to move the broken concrete and steel mounds, 14 more bodies were found.

On Friday, the death toll caused by the collapse of a high-rise apartment building in the Miami area jumped to 78. The mayor called the figure “heartbreaking” because rescuers worked so hard to find victims among the rubble.

The Mayor of Miami-Dade, Daniella Levine Cava, said at a media conference that the rescue of victims was “immediately moving forward” in order to get those who spent two weeks waiting for news. Family closed.

“This is a shocking and heartbreaking number, and it has a very deep impact on all of us,” Levine Cava said of the latest death toll. Another 62 people are missing.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Paraguay said in a radio report that the sister of the Paraguayan first lady was among the dead. According to reports, several Latin American citizens were in the building when the building collapsed. No one has been alive since the first hour after the building collapsed on June 24.

“We know that the front-line team will be affected in the long-term,” Levin Kava said. “In the first two weeks, they paid a lot.”

Rescue workers and emergency support teams from Florida and several other states worked 24 hours a day in shifts 24 hours a day for 16 days, under intense heat and dangerous conditions, doing physically and emotionally heavy work.

Exhausted members of the search and rescue team observed a moment of silence at the collapsed Champlain Tower South Building in Surfside, Florida [Miami-Dade Fire Rescue/via Reuters]

Alan Kominsky, director of the Miami-Dade Fire Department, said that taking care of the mental health and well-being of first responders is a top priority. He said that it is vital that first responders communicate with each other. “For us, conversation is very important,” he said.

To this end, Levin Kava said that officials have added peer support staff at the fire station.

After the authorities said they had concluded that there was “no chance of life” in the rubble of the Surfside Champlain Tann apartment complex, the arduous search for survivors turned to restoration work this week.

Investigators at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have been looking for clues to the collapse of the building.

“NIST has made significant progress in marking and transporting forensic evidence,” Levin Kava said.

“They have now collected more than 200 pieces of evidence, and they recently deployed scientists from the Physical Measurement Laboratory in Washington to assist in the analysis.”

Attention was focused on an engineering report in 2018 that warned Structural defects.

Federal investigators have shipped more than 200 collapsed Champlain Tanan apartments to Washington, DC for forensic analysis [Shannon Stapleton/Reuters]

After the workers briefly rekindled the hope of finding survivors tear down The rest of the building was allowed to enter the new debris area on July 4. The voids where some survivors might be trapped do exist, mainly in basements and parking lots.

The grim thing is that rescuers are now focusing on Find the remains Not survivors.

State and local officials have pledged to provide financial assistance to the families of the victims and residents of the building who have survived but lost all their properties. At the same time, the authorities are launching a grand jury investigation into the collapse. The family filed at least six lawsuits.