After Surfside Tower Collapse, Condo Residents Wonder If They Need To Worry

CBS Miami

July 19, 2021

Salomon Gold expects to celebrate his 90th birthday next month in his Champlain Towers North condo in Surfside, where for decades he has enjoyed views of the turquoise blue waves of the Atlantic lapping on the beach.

“You know how much they charge in the hotel next door for a night? One thousand dollars,” said Gold, wearing a driver’s cap over bespectacled eyes and sporting a thick, white mustache on his balcony, his wife Cila at his side. “I have it here for free.”

Since the partial collapse last month of the twin Champlain Towers South killed at least 100 people just down the block, some residents in Gold’s building have chosen to evacuate. Not him.

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