Shortly before 1:30 a.m. June 24, much of Champlain Tower South collapsed.
The first reported signs of trouble that day occurred about an hour earlier. First floor condo resident Sterna Sarah Nir said she heard strange knocking noises that sounded like construction.
Nir told COLlive.com, which caters news to readers of the Jewish faith, “I was sitting in the office, going through emails and the like, and I started hearing noises.”
Her 15- and 25-year-old sons were asleep in adjacent rooms.
“I thought someone had decided to renovate their apartment in the middle of the night,” she said. “At first, I ignored it. But a few minutes later, I became upset about it and left the apartment.”
As she complained to a security guard, asking him to call the police, she saw the parking lot of the building collapse “like an abyss that has opened up beneath it.”
