SURFSIDE, FL (AP) – A football game may have saved the life of Patricia Avilez.
Avilez’s son-in-law lives in an apartment located on the wing of a 12-story apartment building on the beach that collapsed in a town near Miami in early Thursday, killing at least one person.
When the brother-in-law is not there, Avilez regularly stops by to pick up the mail and make sure everything in the apartment is in order.
“Last night I thought, ‘Let me go there to sleep at night,'” she said. “I watched the football match, changed my mind and stayed at home.”
She said she woke up at 5:30 a.m. Thursday and headed for the apartment. Along the way, she heard on the radio about the collapse.
“And then I came here and he’s gone,” she said. “It’s all a disaster.”
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