{"id":15764,"date":"2026-11-12T14:27:30","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T14:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=15764"},"modified":"2026-11-12T14:27:30","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T14:27:30","slug":"death-toll-rises-to-8-in-brooklyn-building-collapse-as-rescuers-dig-through-rubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=15764","title":{"rendered":"Death toll rises to 8 in Brooklyn building collapse as rescuers dig through rubble"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First responders work the scene after a building collapsed in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, Thursday. AP-Yonhap<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NEW YORK \u2014 At least eight people have died after a three-story building in Brooklyn collapsed at the edge of a construction site, New York City\u2019s mayor said Thursday, as firefighters kept digging through the rubble to find others who may be trapped beneath the wreckage.<\/p>\n

The building came down Wednesday afternoon. At least 17 people have been injured, including three firefighters, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are no words for a loss of this magnitude,\u201d Mamdani posted on X. \u201cMy heart is with the families and loved ones of those we have lost, those who are injured and everyone grieving today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Firefighters early Thursday removed the bodies of four more people who died after a three-story building in Brooklyn collapsed at the edge of a construction site, bringing the death toll to six, and they kept digging through the rubble to find others who may be trapped beneath the wreckage.<\/p>\n

At least 17 people were hospitalized with injuries, including four in critical condition after the building came down Wednesday afternoon. The New York City Fire Department confirmed the additional deaths, and the other two deaths were announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Scores of firefighters and police officers wielding pickaxes and power saws clambered over the rubble pile overnight, punching holes through the ruins to pull dust-covered people from beneath piles of twisted wood and brick.<\/p>\n

Rescuers used dogs to sniff for survivors. Firefighters used orange buckets as they removed debris from the rubble piles trying to reach people who may be trapped.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis has been an incredibly challenging and fast-moving situation, with precarious wreckage to navigate and dangerous voids beneath the surface,\u201d Mayor Zohran Mamdani said at a news conference Wednesday. \u201cThis type of rescue is exactly what the FDNY trains for.\u201d<\/p>\n

Heavy rain was forecast for the city on Thursday afternoon. It wasn’t immediately known how that would affect search efforts.<\/p>\n

The cause of the collapse was under investigation, but New York City\u2019s buildings commissioner, Ahmed Tigani, noted that when the building fell, construction workers were excavating an empty lot next door for a new building.<\/p>\n

Much of the rubble from the collapsed building \u2014 a mixed-use structure with apartments sitting atop ground-floor commercial space \u2014 wound up in a huge pile inside the construction pit. Another building that shared a wall with the collapsed structure remained standing, but its wall was shorn off, exposing the rooms inside, including a bedroom and closets filled with clothing.<\/p>\n

About 250 firefighters were working the scene, Mamdani said.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday night, firefighters pulled a woman \u2014 still alive and moving \u2014 out of a hole they had dug into the rubble pile, hoisting her up on a stretcher and rushing to a waiting ambulance. Additional people were pulled from beneath the pile as the night went on.<\/p>\n

Seven of the casualties were children, authorities said, without specifying whether any were among the dead.<\/p>\n

FDNY Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore said the rescue teams were performing \u201cdangerous and perilous\u201d work. \u201cEvery move is choreographed,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

One firefighter sustained minor injuries, fire officials said.<\/p>\n

Phone and email messages seeking comment were left Wednesday with the architect, property owner and general contractor listed in city records as being associated with the construction project.<\/p>\n

One resident of the collapsed building, Anderson Velez, told the New York Post he was at work when his wife called and said she and their two kids, ages 7 and 2, were trapped in the wreckage.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe called me when the building collapsed while she was inside with rubble on top of her. She was screaming for someone to help get my son out and then the call cut off,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Velez said he later learned that his family had been pulled from the rubble alive.<\/p>\n

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