On a Wednesday afternoon in Flatbush, Brooklyn, a century-old four-unit apartment house gave way and slid into a neighboring excavation, the way old structures sometimes do when the ground beneath them is disturbed. Rescuers, some of them firefighters who happened to be nearby, have been working through the rubble for the living while the city still cannot say how many people were inside or how many are still missing. The cause is under investigation, and the answers will come slowly, as they always do after a building that has stood for nearly a hundred years falls in a single moment.
Brooklyn Building Collapse Kills at Two, Injures More Than 10 as Rescuers Search Rubble
At least two people were killed, 19 people were known victims including 7 children, and more than 10 were hospitalized with critical or non-life-threatening injuries.
We do not know how many people are missing overall.
Mark
What's the basic picture here?
Mimi
A 1930 apartment building with four units, three stories, fell into a neighboring excavation site in Flatbush around 4 p.m. Wednesday. At least two are dead and more than 10 were hospitalized.
Mark
The officials gave a figure of 19 victims. What does that cover?
Mimi
Fire Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore said 19 known victims, seven of them children. She wouldn't say whether the two dead were children or adults.
Luke
And that 19 isn't a final number. Esposito said plainly they don't know how many people are missing overall.
Mark
Why does the excavation matter?
Mimi
The building fell into the construction site, and the work there was underway. But the cause is under investigation.
Luke
Right, so adjacency isn't a finding. Nothing reported so far says the digging caused it.
Mark
Anything on the rescue itself?
Mimi
A fire crew nearby arrived within a minute and helped pull out the first victims. WABC-TV reported at least four survivors came out two to two and a half hours later, including a pregnant woman.
Luke
Note that survivor detail is the station's report, not the officials' statement. And the early injury tallies changed, so expect more revisions.
Mark
How long will it go on?
Mimi
Esposito said several days to search the whole site.
Der Puls
- A 1930 apartment building in Flatbush collapsed into an active construction excavation around 4 p.m., and no one yet knows the full count of who was inside.
- Nineteen known victims, seven of them children, have been tallied, and at least two people are dead.
- Off-duty and nearby firefighters reached the scene within a minute and helped pull survivors from the debris, including a pregnant woman.
- Rescue dogs and crews are combing voids under the rubble, with the search expected to take several days.
- The injured count has shifted as the rescue continues, and the investigation into why a century-old building fell beside active digging has only just begun.
On a Wednesday afternoon in Flatbush, Brooklyn, a century-old four-unit apartment house gave way and slid into a neighboring excavation, the way old structures sometimes do when the ground beneath them is disturbed. Rescuers, some of them firefighters who happened to be nearby, have been working through the rubble for the living while the city still cannot say how many people were inside or how many are still missing. The cause is under investigation, and the answers will come slowly, as they always do after a building that has stood for nearly a hundred years falls in a single moment.
Shortly after four o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, a three-story apartment building in Flatbush, Brooklyn, collapsed into a construction site next door, where excavation was already underway. The four-unit house dated from 1930, and when it came down, it took people with it. City officials say at least two people died and more than ten were taken to hospitals with serious or less severe injuries.
A fire crew that happened to be in the neighborhood arrived within a minute and began pulling people from the wreckage. Among the survivors pulled out in the first hours was a pregnant woman. Officials now count nineteen known victims, seven of them children, though they have not said whether the dead were adults or children, and they still do not know how many people were home or how many workers were on the site.
As the sun went down, teams with search dogs moved through the ruins, passing debris out in buckets and listening for signs of life in the gaps beneath the rubble. Fire Department officials expect the full search to take several days. What they cannot yet say is how many people remain unaccounted for. The cause is under investigation, and the questions now turn to the excavation beside a building that had stood for nearly a century.
A three-story apartment building in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn collapsed at about 4 p.m. on Wednesday, tumbling into an adjoining construction site where excavation work was underway. New York City officials said at least two people were killed and more than 10 others were taken to hospitals as rescuers kept searching the rubble for anyone still trapped.
The building was a four-unit apartment house dating from 1930. John Esposito, the city's fire department chief, said the cause was under investigation. Officials did not say how many people were home when it came down, and they did not say how many workers were on the construction site at the time.
A firefighting crew that happened to be in the neighborhood reached the scene within a minute of the collapse and helped pull the first victims from the debris, authorities told reporters at an evening press conference.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the injured were taken to local hospitals with a mix of critical and non-life-threatening injuries. Fire Department Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore said the number of known victims stood at 19 people, seven of them children. She declined to say whether the two people who died were children or adults. One firefighter also suffered minor injuries.
The count of the injured shifted as the rescue went on. Before the first two survivors were pulled from the debris, the Fire Department had said four people were critically injured and six more had minor injuries. WABC-TV later reported that at least four survivors were pulled from the wreckage roughly two to two and a half hours after the collapse, among them a pregnant woman.
Local television footage showed rescue workers with search dogs moving across the ruins, passing debris out in buckets as they looked for signs of people who might be alive in voids beneath the rubble.
Esposito said it would take rescue teams several days to search the entire site for all potential victims. He was direct about the limits of what officials knew: they did not yet know how many people were missing overall.
What comes next is the slow work of clearing the site and settling the count of the missing, along with the investigation into why a 1930 building beside an active excavation fell.
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We do not know how many people are missing overall.— John Esposito, New York City fire department chief
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