Rescuers search around the clock for survivors of Florida building collapse
FRANCISCO ALVARADO PROSPECTS for recovering survivors from a Florida high-rise have diminished with each passing hour, two full days after the 12-story condominium mysteriously collapsed while many residents slept. Even so, search-and-rescue teams worked around the clock through an unstable mountain of debris looking for signs of life from any of the 159 people still unaccounted for, while smouldering fires filled the air with smoke. The death toll of four was certain to rise with one floor of the high-rise stacked atop another like pancakes. Aided by dogs, cameras, sonar and heavy equipment, rescuers looked for any spaces that may…