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Gov. Tom Wolf recently deployed a task force to help with search-and-rescue efforts for victims of the Surfside building collapse in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

PA-Task Force 1 is one of 28 teams that form the National Urban Search and Rescue Response System and is sponsored by the Philadelphia Fire Department, according to a press release from the Governor's Office. The task force is dealing with the building collapse and has demolished the still-standing portion of the building.

“Seventy members of Pennsylvania-Task Force 1 will leave tonight to assist with search-and-rescue efforts at the site of last week’s deadly building collapse in Florida,” Wolf wrote in a June 30 Twitter post. “It will be dangerous work. But the ability to bring closure to families and friends of the victims of this collapse is a tremendous blessing. Thank you to the men and women of PA-TF1."

Multiple states across the nation are assisting with the search-and-rescue efforts at Surfside as Hurricane Elsa is predicted to make landfall later this week, according to The Washington Post.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue officials said that there were 136 apartment units in the complex, 55 of which were destroyed when the building suddenly collapsed on June 24, ABC News reported.

The death toll, as of July 6, is 36 and expected to rise, according to NPR News. However, the number of missing is not confirmed because of inconsistent information. There are thought to be 109 people unaccounted for.

Public documents released last week said the waterproofing below the pool deck and entrance drive was failing and causing “major structural damage to the concrete structural slab below these areas,” according to a report from engineering firm Morabito Consultants.