SURFSIDE, Fla. — Kinfolk of the missing called the scene of the Florida condo building collapse Sunday as saviors impeded delving through the mound of rubble and grasping to hope that someone could hitherto is still alive somewhere under the broken concrete and changed metal.

The death toll rose by precisely four parties, to a total of nine confirmed dead. But after roughly four full dates of search-and-rescue efforts, more than 150 added people were still missing in Surfside. No one has been attracted alive from the batch since Thursday, hours after the collapse.

Some kinfolks had hoped their trip would allow them to exclaim contents to loved ones perhaps submerge deep inside the pile.

Buses created several groups of relatives to a sit where they could view the collection and the savers at work. As relatives returned to a nearby hotel, several paused to embrace as they get off the bus. Others ambled gradually with arms around one another back to the inn entrance.

“We are just waiting for answers. That’s what we want, ” said Dianne Ohayon, whose parents, Myriam and Arnie Notkin were in the building. “It’s hard to go through these long days and we haven’t gotten any answers yet.”

Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai, who inspected with own family members, resulted a humanitarian delegation to Surfside that included various Israeli professionals in search-and-rescue operations. He said the experts have told him of cases where survivors search for and after 100 hours or more.

“So don’t lose hope, that’s what I would say. But you have everyone understanding the longer it makes, the prospects of finding someone alive goes down, ” he said.

“If you watch the scene, you know it’s almost impossible to find someone alive, ” Shai added. “But you never know. Sometimes miracles happen, you know? We Jews believe in miracles.”

Rescuers sought to reassure lineages that they only doing as much as possible to find missing loved ones, but the crews said they needed to work carefully for the best chance of unveiling survivors.

Some relatives ought to have forestalled with the speed of rescue efforts.

“My daughter is 26 year olds, in excellent state. She could make it out of there, ” one father told savers during a weekend meeting with family members. A video of the satisfy was posted by Instagram user Abigail Pereira.

“It’s not enough, ” continued the mother, who was among relatives who pushed authorities to bring in experts from other countries to help. “Imagine if your children were in there.”

Scores of rescue workers remained on the massive batch of rubble Sunday, sought for survivors but so far finding exclusively bodies and human remains.

In a meeting with families Saturday evening, beings murmured and wept as Miami-Dade Assistant Fire Chief Raide Jadallah explained why he could not answer their reiterated questions about how many preys they had found.

“It’s not undoubtedly that we’re finding victims, OK? We’re finding human remains, ” Jadallah said, according to the video posted on Instagram.

He memo the flannel-cake explosion of the 12 -story building, which had crumbled into a rubble mound that could be measured in feet. Those ailments have exasperated gangs looking for survivors, he said.

Every time gangs find remains, they empty the area and remove the remains. They working in collaboration with a rabbi to ensure any religious communions are done properly, Jadallah said.

If gangs find any “artifacts, ” such as records, videos or coin, they turn them over to police, officials said.

Alan Cominsky, chief of the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department, said they are maintaining out hope of finding someone alive, but they must be slow and methodical.

“The debris orbit is scattered throughout, and it’s compact, excessively compact, ” he said.

Debris must be stabilized and shored up as they go.

“If there is a vacant cavity, we want to make sure we’re given all possibilities of a survivor. That’s why we can’t just go in and move things erratically, because that’s going to have the worst outcome possible, ” he said.

In gratifies with permissions, own family members repeatedly propagandized rescuers to do more. One asked why they could not surgically remove the largest segments of plaster with cranes, to try to uncover bigger vacants where survivors might be found.

“There’s not monstrous slice that we can easily surgically remove, ” replied Maggie Castro, of the shoot extricate agency.

“They’re not large-scale pieces. Portions are disintegrated, and they’re being held together by the rebar that’s part of the construction. So if we try to lift that portion, even as carefully, those pieces that are crumbling can fall off the sides and disturb the pile, ” Castro said.

She said they try to cut rebar in strategic situates and remove big sections, but that they have to remove them in a way that nothing will fall onto the pile.

“We are doing layer by blanket, ” Castro said. “It doesn’t stop. It’s all day. All night.”

Rescuers are also among exerting a microwave radar device developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab and the Department of Homeland Security that “sees” through up to 8 inches of solid concrete, according to Adrian Garulay, CEO of Spec Ops Group, which sells them. The suitcase-sized device can identify human breathing and heartbeats and was being deployed Sunday by a seven-member search-and-rescue team from Mexico’s Jewish community.

Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said six to eight units are actively probing the batch at any given point in time, with hundreds of team representatives on standby ready to rotate in. She said units have worked around the clock since Thursday, and there was no absence of personnel.

Teams are also working with designers and sonar to make sure the rescuers are safe.

Crews wasted Saturday night digging a excavation that elongates 125 hoofs long, 20 hoofs across and 40 paws deep, which, she said, allowed them to find more bodies and human remains.

Earl Tilton, who runs a search-and-rescue consulting firm in North Carolina, said scurrying into the rubble without careful planning and execution would disable or kill saviors and the people they are trying to save, said Tilton, who runs Lodestar Professional Services in Hendersonville, North Carolina.

“I understand the families’ concerns on this. If it was my family member, I would want everyone in there attracting rubble apart as fast as humanly possible, ” Tilton said. “But moving the wrong part of debris at the wrong duration could cause it to fall on them and crush them.”

During past urban recoveries, saviors have found survivors as long as a week past the initial calamity, Tilton said.

Authorities are picking DNA samples from family members to aid in identification. Late Saturday, four of the victims were identified as Stacie Dawn Fang, 54; Antonio Lozano, 83; Gladys Lozano, 79; and Manuel LaFont, 54.

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