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Cassondra Stratton, Woman With Colorado Ties, Still Not Found As Search Continues At Site Of Miami-Area Condo Building Collapse

June 25, 2021 / 11:59 PM MDT / CBS Colorado

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DENVER (CBS4) - There's still no word on the status of Cassondra Stratton, a woman with Colorado ties who is among the missing after a condo building collapse in Florida. Four people have been confirmed dead and as of Friday evening 159 were missing. The rubble from the destruction is still considered too unstable to venture too far into it.

(credit: Mike Stratton)

As of Friday evening, she is the only missing person CBS4 has heard of who has ties to Colorado.

Mike Stratton, a prominent Colorado political strategist, has flown out to the Miami area.

This aerial view, shows search and rescue personnel working on site after the partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, north of Miami Beach, on June 24, 2021. - The multi-story apartment block in Florida partially collapsed early June 24, sparking a major emergency response. Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett told NBCs Today show: My police chief has told me that we transported two people to the hospital this morning at least and one has died. We treated ten people on the site. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP) (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

He released a statement on Friday thanking all "...the brave men and women working around the clock in unimaginable conditions to bring her and others home."

(credit: Mike Stratton)

Mike Stratton's full statement lies below:

Thank you to everyone who has reached out and is keeping Cassie in their thoughts and prayers, but most of all to the brave men and women working around the clock in unimaginable conditions to bring her and others home. Our family is forever grateful. Cassie is a wife, mother and true friend to so many. She brings a vivacious love of life to everything she does -- whether as an actress, model or Pilates instructor. Thank you again for your continued prayers.

Mike Stratton is a senior policy advisor with the law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck.