Colorado woman reportedly missing in Miami building collapse
DENVER — A Colorado woman is one of more than 150 people considered missing after a condo building partially collapsed just north of Miami Beach Thursday.
Cassondra Stratton is one of the more than 150 people rescuers are continuing to search for.
She’s married to Michael Stratton, a Durango native who spent decades working with Democrats in Colorado, including the campaigns of Sen. Michael Bennet and former Gov. John Hickenlooper.
Denver7It’s really extraordinary,” he said. “They’ve been 24/7 rescuing people, and now they’re 24/7 trying to get to people who may still be alive under all that debris and rubble that exists from the building collapse.”
Michael Stratton describes his wife as “vivacious, full of life, always optimistic.”
“There was a phrase that everybody had, which was ‘everybody loves Cassie,'” he said.
The couple spent much of their quarantine during the height of COVID-19 in the condo, which they’ve owned for four years. He said they always felt safe there.
“[It] was a great place for us to escape COVID from and we were together 24/7 for a long time,” Michael Stratton said.
Eleven people were injured and at least three are dead.
At this time, It’s not clear how many people were inside when the building fell around 1:30 a.m. Thursday.
