MIAMI — After the deadly Surfside condo collapse, crucial pieces of evidence — including portions of columns, beams and slabs — were trucked away from the disaster site and stored in a Miami-Dade police warehouse.
The evidence is key, both for federal investigators at the National Institute of Standards and Technology seeking to understand what caused the collapse — and for attorneys for victims and defendants in a massive civil court case that will try to assign liability for an accident that claimed 98 lives at Champlain Towers South.
But now NIST and Miami-Dade County are trying to prevent experts for the attorneys from testing and sampling the materials.
