SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — A soccer game may have saved Patricia Avilez’s life.
Avilez’s brother-in-law lives in a condo located in the wing of a 12-story beachfront condo building that collapsed in Surfside, a town outside Miami early Thursday, killing at least one person.
When the brother-in-law isn’t there, Avilez routinely stops by to pick up the mail and make sure everything in the condo is in order.
“Last night I was thinking, “Let me go over there to sleep overnight,” she said. “I was looking at the soccer game and I changed my mind and I stayed home.”
She said she woke up at 5:30 a.m. Thursday and headed over to the apartment. On the way, she heard on the radio about the collapse.
“And then I came here and it’s gone,” she said. “Everything is disaster.”
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