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The thought of what happened to the 156 missing people was just unbearable. Ever since I heard the horrific news last Thursday morning of the partial collapse of a residential building in Surfside, Florida, I had only one thought: Can they rescue any survivors from the rubble? I assumed every minute, every second, would count. If anyone was still alive under that crushing debris, they must have been barely alive, barely breathing. The numbers gave me the chills: Initially, it was one dead, over 100 unaccounted for. As the days wore on, the dead toll increased. By Sunday night, it was 9 dead, with 156 still missing. In the 96 hours since the collapse, no one was rescued alive. The thought of what happened to the 156 missing people was just unbearable. It must have been unbearable to others, too, like Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett, who spoke of “progress.” “There is progress being made,” Burkett told ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday. “We’ve got waves of search-and-rescue teams that are flowing over the site, going in and going out.
