The grandson received 16 calls from the phone of a couple who lived in a collapsed building in Florida

Arnie and Miriam Notkin went missing after the collapse of an apartment building in Surfside, Florida. But after that, their family received calls from a landline phone that stood next to the couple's bed in the collapsed apartment. Writes about it NY Daily News.

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However, the only thing their puzzled relatives hear when they pick up the phone is static.

“We were all sitting in the living room, my whole family, Diana, my mother, and we were just shocked. We responded and there was interference,” said the missing couple’s grandson, Jake Samuelson.

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In two days, the family received 16 calls from this number, the first call came on Thursday, June 24, shortly after the collapse of the house. The partial collapse of the 12-storey building occurred at 01:30 on June 24.

The first call came on Thursday night, followed by 15 more calls on Friday, June 25th.

The family turned to a detective for help, but have not yet received an answer.

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"We're trying to rationalize what's going on here, we're trying to get answers," Samuelson said.

The couple lived in apartment number 302. And Arnie did not walk well, writes Miami Herald.

Search and rescue operations are still ongoing. As of June 29, 150 people are reported missing, more than 30 people have survived, and at least 11 have died, with "human remains" found. A state of emergency has been declared in Miami.

As ForumDaily wrote earlier:

• June 24 in Miami-Dade County (Florida) partially a 12-storey building collapsed.
• According to a 2020 study by Shimon Wdowinski, Professor of the Department of Earth and Environment, the building, built in 1981, has plunged into the ground at an alarming rate since the 1990s.
• On the list of the missing listed as a Russian-speaking resident of Brooklynwho moved into the building with his wife.

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