A three-story apartment building in Brooklyn gave way Wednesday afternoon, killing two people and sending more than ten others to hospitals. The collapse happened around 4 p.m. Eastern time, according to the New York City Fire Department, which dispatched dozens of firefighters and a search dog to the scene.
The 1930 structure contained four units. Drone footage reviewed by Reuters shows debris — including a stove, a toilet, and a door — tumbling into an excavation pit at a neighboring construction site. Some of the injured are reported to be construction workers who were on site when the building fell.
Rescuers pulled a person alive from the wreckage roughly two and a half hours after the collapse. That individual, described by a bystander as a six-month-pregnant woman, was stretchered into an ambulance. A second survivor was extracted later.
Before those rescues, the fire department had counted four people in critical condition and six with minor injuries. Crews are still removing rubble by hand, bucket by bucket, as the search continues into the evening.
