{"id":1990,"date":"2021-07-12T19:04:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T19:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakerlog.lssu.edu\/summer2021\/?p=1990"},"modified":"2021-07-13T18:42:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T18:42:21","slug":"laker-alumnus-one-of-the-many-first-responders-supporting-surfside-condo-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakerlog.lssu.edu\/summer2021\/laker-alumnus-one-of-the-many-first-responders-supporting-surfside-condo-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Laker Alumnus One of the Many First Responders Supporting Surfside Condo Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Graham, Rescue Officer with USAR Task Force 6, was one of many heroic individuals who has provided support in the Surfside relief and recovery efforts.<\/p>\n<p>On June 24, 2021, at approximately 1:25 a.m. EDT, Champlain Towers South, a 12-story beachfront condominium in the Miami suburb of Surfside, Florida, United States, partially collapsed. As of July 12, 2021, a total of 94 people are confirmed to have died, with 11 injured and up to 22 unaccounted for, making it one of the deadliest unintentional building collapses in American history.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The members of the USAR teams work and train very hard for these situations,&#8221; said Graham. &#8220;It was very taxing physically and emotionally but we will continue relentlessly till all are found.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Paul attended LSSU from the Spring of 1996 through the Spring of 1997. He is shown in the middle row, second from the left, in the <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/GovRonDeSantis\/photos\/a.4187528271305201\/4277035355687825\">photo above<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Graham, Rescue Officer with USAR Task Force 6, was one of many heroic individuals who has provided support in the Surfside relief and recovery efforts. On June 24, 2021, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":1991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakerlog.lssu.edu\/summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakerlog.lssu.edu\/summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakerlog.lssu.edu\/summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakerlog.lssu.edu\/summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakerlog.lssu.edu\/summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakerlog.lssu.edu\/summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakerlog.lssu.edu\/summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakerlog.lssu.edu\/summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakerlog.lssu.edu\/summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakerlog.lssu.edu\/summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}