Family Receives 16 Calls From Landline Belonging to Grandparents Inside Champlain Towers Condo
By Fox News // June 27, 2021
Arnie and Myriam Notkin lived on the third floor
SURFSIDE, FLORIDA (FOX NEWS) – Clinging to a sliver of hope in the Surfside condo tower collapse, one family says it has received 16 calls from a landline belonging to their grandparents, who are among the 156 unaccounted for as rescuers continue to search the rubble.
Arnie and Myriam Notkin lived on the third floor in the south wing of the 12-story building that inexplicably collapsed early Thursday morning.
In the days since, their grandson, Jake Samuelson, said his mother has been receiving calls from the Notkins’ landline phone that they kept next to their bed.
“We are trying to rationalize what is happening here. We are trying to get answers,” Samuelson told WPLG.
Samuelson said his grandparents’ number has appeared on the caller ID of his mother’s phone 16 times since Thursday, according to WPLG. The first call reportedly came at 9:50 p.m. EDT on Thursday, nearly 20 hours after the building crashed to the ground.
When Samuelson’s family returned from the reunification center on Friday morning, they were startled to find 15 more calls from the Notkins on the caller ID, WPLG reported.
But the calls were met with no human voices on the other end — only static, Samuelson told the outlet.
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