Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said search teams extricated the remains of a 12th victim on Tuesday, leaving 149 people listed as unaccounted for.

Miami-Dade County State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said she would convene a special grand jury, apart from any potential criminal investigation, to examine building safety and 'what steps we can take to safeguard our residents' from similar disasters in the future. 'The way I look at it, as an old Navy guy, is that when somebody is missing in the military, you're missing until you're found, and we don't stop the search,' Florida Governor Ron DeSantis told a news briefing on Tuesday. Officials said they still harbor hope of finding survivors. Vach, whose team arrived in Miami on Sunday to join the rescue effort, said crews were working in the space between collapsed balconies and had discovered some tunnels large enough for a person, though most of the debris is 'very, very tight.' 'Unfortunately, they are not alive,' he said. In an interview with CNN on Wednesday morning, Colonel Golan Vach, commander of the Israeli National Rescue Unit, said he had just finished a 12-hour shift and that workers 'found some more people,' though he did not say how many. Nobody has been pulled alive from the mounds of pulverized concrete, splintered lumber and twisted metal since the early hours of the disaster. But 149 others were still missing and believed trapped in the rubble. Twelve people have been confirmed killed in the disaster, which could rank as one of the deadliest accidental structural failures in U.S. Main Photo: An El Al airplane carrying members of an Israel Defense Forces rescue team is given a “water salute” upon departing Miami on July 11, 2021.Rescue crews found more bodies overnight in the shattered ruins of a collapsed Miami-area condominium tower, the leader of an Israeli search team said on Wednesday, after days of scant progress in discovering the fate of dozens of people still missing. The salute involved the Fire Rescue team showering the plane with its hoses. On Sunday, as the final members of the Israeli team departed, their El Al airplane was given a “water salute” by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue. They then walked down a street flanked by other rescue workers while people sang “Ani Maamin” (“I Believe”), a traditional Jewish song affirming faith in redemption from difficult times. The team received medals and gifted the officials with an Israeli flag in return. The seven-person team from the Israel Defense Forces’ Home Front Command, which arrived in Surfside three days after Champlain Towers collapsed last month, received thanks from Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava and other local officials in a ceremony Saturday, according to The Times of Israel.

(JTA) – The Israeli military team that assisted in the search and rescue operation at the collapsed building in Surfside, Florida left on July 10 after received salutes and awards for their work.

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