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Wall Street Journal
SURFSIDE, Fla.—The president of the Champlain South Towers condo association told residents in April their building was in desperate disrepair and urged them to pay the $15 million in assessments needed to fix structural problems, in a letter reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
The condo board president, Jean Wodnicki wrote that the concrete damage to the building would “multiply exponen-tially over the years, and indeed the observable damage such as in the garage has gotten signifi-cantly worse over the years.”
Officials said they are focusing on finding survivors, while simulta-neously preserving evidence and preparing for an investigation into the cause of a structural collapse of historic proportions. It is rare because it doesn’t appear to have been prompted by outside dynamics, like a natural disaster, and potentially reflects the failure of multiple systems within the building all at once, engineers said.
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