29 Jun 2021

Aguero family tell of miraculous escape from Miami building

From First Up, 5:12 am on 29 June 2021

To the US now where a New Jersey family, who used the Champlain towers in Miami as a vacation home have spoken for the first time about their miraculous escape. Albert Aguero's family bought the apartment three years ago as a holiday home and have visited three times in the past 18 months. He says he, his wife and two teenaged children were awakened by a 'loud thunderous sound' outside their 11th floor apartment on Thursday morning, and it was Then that they realised it would be a race against time to get out. Ella Stewart reports.