The sister of a woman still missing in last weeks collapse of a Surfside, Florida, condo building recalled the heartbreaking moment she could no longer see the location of her siblings cellphone on the Find My Friends app.
I just kept trying to make it find her and it just kept spinning and spinning and saying no location found and it just tore my soul apart, Ashley Dean told CNN s John Berman on Wednesday as the search for her sister Cassondra Cassie Billedeau-Stratton and 144 others continued into its seventh day.
The death toll from the collapse has risen to 18 .
It just tore my soul apart.
Ashley Dean, whose sister Cassie Stratton is unaccounted for in the condo collapse, recounts the moment she could no longer see her sisters shared location on her phone. https://t.co/V4Nf9S7BNy pic.twitter.com/bQFAndDLL1
It just tore my soul apart.
Anderson Cooper 360 (@AC360) July 1, 2021
Ashley Dean, whose sister Cassie Stratton is unaccounted for in the condo collapse, recounts the moment she could no longer see her sisters shared location on her phone. https://t.co/V4Nf9S7BNy pic.twitter.com/bQFAndDLL1
Stratton, 40, had been talking on the telephone with her husband, Democratic political strategist Michael Stratton, when the Champlain Towers South building partially collapsed at around 1:30 a.m. on June 24.
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She described that the building was shaking and then the phone went dead, Michael Stratton, whod been on a business trip in Washington when the disaster struck, told Denvers KMGH-TV .
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