A Year On, Surfside Remembers 98 Victims of Condo Collapse

Search and rescue personnel work atop the rubble at the Champlain Towers South condo building, where scores of people remain missing after it partially collapsed the week before, in Surfside, Fla., on June 30, 2021. Lynne Sladky/AP Photo

SURFSIDE, Fla.—A year ago in the middle of the night, a 12-story oceanfront condo building in Surfside, Florida, came down with a thunderous roar, leaving a giant pile of rubble and claiming 98 lives—one of the deadliest structure collapses in U.S. history.

The names of each victim were read aloud during a ceremony Friday to mark the somber anniversary, attended by political figures, first responders, and family members of those who died at Champlain Towers South on June 24, 2021.