Firefighters dig through rubble after NYC building collapse kills 1 and traps people in wreckage
NEW YORK — Firefighters dug through the rubble of a three-story building in Brooklyn on Wednesday after it collapsed at the edge of a construction site, killing at least one person and trapping others beneath the wreckage. Firefighters were called to the scene in the borough's Flatbush section around 4 p.m. News helicopter footage showed dozens of firefighters scouring the debris, with a group…
New York - Firefighters were called to a three-story building collapse in Brooklyn's Flatbush neighborhood on Wednesday afternoon. The structure, situated near an excavated construction site, crumbled, resulting in at least one fatality and several injuries. News footage captured dozens of firefighters sifting through the debris, utilizing tools to clear a section of the wreckage.
Four individuals were rushed to the hospital in critical condition, while six others sustained minor injuries. The aerial images revealed firefighters extracting one person from the rubble using a stretcher. The building that collapsed had been perched precariously at the edge of a construction site where a one-story building had been demolished for a new development project. The fallen building had filled the excavation site with debris.
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