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The IDF Rescue Unit Found Most of the Surfside Disaster Victims
(Palm Beach Post) Wendy Rhodes - Lt.-Col. Golan Vach, commander of the Israel Defense Forces National Rescue Unit, said he personally found 20 victims from the Surfside, Florida, condo collapse and that his team recovered 81, 84% of the nearly 100 victims. He knew where to look because he studied photographs of the missing, learned about their possessions, learned about their habits, and even knew in which room each likely would have been during the collapse. While U.S. authorities said there were 159 missing, his team met with the families and determined there were 98. Using expertise developed from responder missions in wars and catastrophic events in Israel and around the world, the team developed a 3-dimensional computer model to determine where each room was located both before and after the collapse. That way, rescuers could search with purpose.