One dead, 10 injured after Brooklyn building collapse
A three-story building partially collapsed in Flatbush on November 11, sending crews to search rubble and assess nearby structures. Officials have not established the cause.
A three-story building partially collapsed in Brooklyn’s Flatbush neighborhood on November 11, killing at least one person and injuring 10, according to ABC News and Fox News. The collapse sent emergency crews to a site near Bedford Avenue, where people were reported trapped and the search continued.
- The first 911 call came in at 4:01 p.m., ABC News reported, citing the FDNY.
- ABC News reported 10 injured people, including two in critical condition; Fox News also reported 10 injured, with four critical and six with minor injuries. The difference in critical-injury counts remains unresolved.
- The FDNY told Fox News that searches for others possibly trapped were continuing; the number of people still unaccounted for was not established.
Rescue crews searched the Bedford Avenue site
ABC News reported, citing an FDNY dispatch, that the three-story building collapsed into an open excavation where workers were present. A wall of an adjacent three-story building was also shorn off, exposing apartments. The Daily Mirror placed the building at 2625 Bedford Avenue, between Newkirk and Flatbush avenues.
The FDNY confirmed one death to Fox News. ABC News reported that the NYPD said the person was pronounced dead at the scene. The Mirror reported at least two people had been rescued and crews were trying to reach a trapped person who was communicating with first responders. It reported two people critically injured and five others injured, including that trapped person; those figures differ from later reports of 10 injured, and the reports do not reconcile the counts.
The Mirror reported that crews used drones and flashlights as daylight faded. The FDNY said rescue operations were underway, while Department of Buildings inspectors were assisting with recovery and checking the structural stability of nearby buildings, ABC News reported. ABC News also reported that the FDNY was trying to count workers at the job site after several construction workers had been taken to hospital for treatment.
What it means for nearby residents and workers
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Flatbush Avenue was closed from Clarendon Road to Bedford Avenue and urged people to avoid the area, Fox News reported. The outlet also reported that the NYPD warned of traffic delays and street closures. Permit records described the excavation site as a planned nine-story mixed-use development, with a grocery store and medical center on the ground floor and apartments above, ABC News reported.
The FDNY said the cause of the collapse was unclear, Fox News reported. Authorities had not established how many people remained trapped or unaccounted for as the rescue response continued.
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What this story rests on
3 sources from 3 organisations: 1 broadcaster, 2 news outlets.
- 1At least 1 dead, multiple injured after building collapses in Brooklyn, New York: FDNYABC News · abcnews.comNews outlet
- 2One dead, several pulled from rubble after NYC building collapse; search underway for others feared trappedFox News Digital · foxnews.comBroadcaster
- 3Building collapses in New York with people 'trapped' as horrifying images emergeDaily Mirror · mirror.co.ukNews outlet
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