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Photos: Death toll rises at collapsed condo in Florida

Pallbearers bring caskets to the hearse after the funeral at St. Joseph Catholic Church.
Pallbearers roll two of three caskets to the hearse after the funeral for Anaely Rodriguez, her husband Marcus Guara and their daughters Lucia Guara and Emma Guara at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Miami Beach, Fla. The family died in the partially collapsed 13-story Champlain Towers South condo in Surfside, Fla.
(Joe Raedle / Getty Images)
By ROBERT ST. JOHN | Senior Photo Editor, TIMES WIRE SERVICES

Officials overseeing the search at the site of the Florida condominium collapse sounded increasingly somber Tuesday about the prospects for finding anyone alive, saying they have detected no new signs of life in the rubble as the death toll climbed to 36.

Crews in yellow helmets and blue jumpsuits searched the debris for a 13th day while wind and rain from the outer bands of Tropical Storm Elsa, which later strengthened into a hurricane, complicated their efforts. Video released by the Miami-Dade County Fire Rescue Department showed workers lugging pickaxes and power saws through piles of concrete rubble barbed with snapped steel rebar. Other searchers could be seen digging with gloved hands through pulverized concrete and dumping shovels of debris into large buckets.

Search and rescue workers continued to look for open spaces where people might be found alive nearly two weeks after the disaster struck at the Champlain Towers South building in Surfside.

Pallbearers bring one of three caskets to the hearse after the funeral at St. Joseph Catholic Church.
Pallbearers bring out a casket after the funeral at St. Joseph Catholic Church for Anaely Rodriguez, her husband, Marcus Guara, and their daughters Lucia Guara and Emma Guara.
(Joe Raedle / Getty Images)
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Rescue workers use a tarp for recovered remains at the site of the collapsed Champlain Towers South condo building.
Rescue workers use a tarp for recovered remains at the site of the collapsed Champlain Towers South condo building in Surfside, Fla., on Monday.
(Lynne Sladky / Associated Press)
Smoke rises from detonations and a building begins to crumble.
The damaged remaining structure at the Champlain Towers South condo building in Surfside, Fla., collapses in a controlled demolition July 4.
(Lynne Sladky / Associated Press)
A man covers his face as a cloud of dust rises as the rest of the Champlain South tower is demolished.
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People watch as the rest of the Champlain South tower is demolished by a controlled explosion in Surfside, Fla.
(Chandan Khanna / AFP / Getty Images )
Biden leans his forehead against the forehead of an emotional woman.
President Biden comforts a grieving woman near a wall of photos dubbed the Surfside Wall of Hope and Memorial near the condo disaster site.
(Chandan Khanna / AFP / Getty Images)
Biden's vehicle passes between lines of law enforcement officers.
President Biden looks out the side window of his vehicle during his July 1 visit.
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A woman, standing with others along a street with palm trees, hugs her daughter.
A woman hugs her daughter as she looks for President Biden near the memorial photo wall.
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Rescuers in helmets are seen amid twisted wreckage.
Search-and-rescue teams look for possible survivors in the wreckage of the Champlain Towers South building.
(Chandan Khanna / AFP / Getty Images)
A man positions a photo pinned with others to a wall covered with flowers.
Leo Soto, whose high school friend Nicole Langesfeld and her husband, Luis Sadovnic, are missing, adjusts pictures at the makeshift memorial photo wall he started.
(Gerald Herbert / Associated Press)
Rescuers in helmets stand atop rubble near a crane.
Search-and-rescue personnel work atop the rubble on June 30, less than a week after the partial collapse of the building.
(Gerald Herbert / Associated Press)
Women and girls in masks stand and pray inside a church.
Parishioners pray during Mass at the St. Joseph Catholic Church on June 30 in Surfside, Fla. The church is serving as a place of spiritual respite for members of the Surfside-Miami Beach community.
(Joe Raedle / Getty Images)
People in helmets gather atop rubble.
About two dozen among the rescue crew gather atop the wreckage on June 30.
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A massive pile of rubble is seen amid other beachfront buildings.
The beachfront condo building, which sits among a string of mid-rise and high-rise condos — some decades old and others brand new — collapsed in the early hours of June 24.
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A firefighter carries a person. A gaping, broken wall is seen in the background.
Firefighters rescue a survivor from the rubble of the Champlain Towers South condos soon after the disaster occurred.
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Shredded walls and wires hang beside a bunk bed and an office chair.
Wreckage hangs from the partially collapsed building in Surfside, north of Miami Beach.
(Chandan Khanna / AFP )
On the sand, with waves lapping in the background, a woman holds another woman, who leans into her shoulder.
People console each other near the site of the building collapse.
(Wilfredo Lee / Associated Press)
Two men stand together, one looking at his cellphone and another sobbing.
A man reacts as he waits for information on the condo collapse, with dozens of people unaccounted for.
(Wilfredo Lee / Associated Press)
Multiple stories are shown with bent balconies, shredded walls and flooring hanging in midair.
Part of the condo building remained standing after the early-morning collapse.
(Wilfredo Lee / Associated Press)
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Children and adults stand on the sand, some recording with cellphones. One man points as his family gazes upward.
People were drawn to the sand outside Champlain Towers South after the tragedy.
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A drone flies near damaged balconies.
A drone inspects damage on the partially collapsed building in Surfside, Fla.
(Wilfredo Lee / Associated Press)
Rubble hangs from several flows of exposed residences.
After the wing of the building collapsed, people were trapped in the wreckage where it “literally pancaked,” said Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett.
(Chandan Khanna / AFP )
Standing outside the building, a woman holds a picture of another woman.
Luz Marina holds a picture of her aunt Marina Azen, who she said was missing.
(Joe Raedle / Getty Images)

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A woman and man hug each other.
Family members and residents of the Champlain Towers South greet each other outside the Town of Surfside Community Center.
(Chandan Khanna / AFP )

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Robert St. John |Senior Photo Editor

Robert St. John joined the Los Angeles Times in 1998 as a photo assignment editor for the California section. He came to The Times after four years at the Detroit Free Press, where he was deputy director of photography.

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