Phone Of Missing Champlain Towers Grandparents Keeps Calling Family Members

SURFSIDE, FL. (THECOUNT) — Jake Samuelson, the grandson of Arnie and Myriam Notkin, (who are believed to have went down in Thursday’s Champlain Towers South collapse,) says his mother’s house phone has been receiving calls from the Notkin’s landline phone that he said rested next to their bed.

Samuelson says, there is no human sound on the other end of the line, only static.

The family has received a total of 16 calls with the first one coming in the evening after the condo collapse at 9:50 p.m. Thursday.

Samuelson said when the first call came in, the family had a mix of emotions.

“We were all sitting there in the living room, my whole family, Diane, my mother, and we were just shocked and we kind of thought nothing of it because we answered, and it was static,” Samuelson said.

On Friday morning, when the family went to the reunification center, there were more calls – 15 more to be exact, according to Local10.

Every call after has been gut-wrenching because they don’t know if it’s actually the Notkins or something else.

“We are trying to rationalize what is happening here, we are trying to get answers,” Samuelson said about his grandparents. Arnie is known as a beloved physical education teacher and Myriam is a banker and real estate agent.

Samuelson said the family did not receive any calls on Saturday – the last one was Friday night.

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