Brooklyn building collapse Flatbush New York, Digi Mart USA News (Flatbush section, Brooklyn borough, New York): At least one person is dead and ten others are injured after a building in New York collapsed, leaving several people trapped beneath the wreckage.
Emergency crews rushed to the Flatbush section of the Brooklyn borough at about 4 p.m. local time after the three-storey building at the edge of a construction site caved in.
Aerial footage showed numerous firefighters searching the debris, with some using a saw to cut through the ruins and digging a person free before taking them away on a stretcher.
The New York City Fire Department has since confirmed that one person has died and four others were rushed to hospital in critical condition. The building sat at the edge of a lot where another single-storey building had been demolished for a construction project, and the site was being excavated when the structure fell, filling the nearby site with bricks and wood.
A neighboring building that shared a wall with the collapsed structure did not topple, but the wall was detached, exposing the bedrooms inside. Rescuers used sniffer dogs to search for survivors and later relied on flashlights to continue scouring the area after sundown.
