{"id":4297,"date":"2026-11-12T19:03:59","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T14:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4297"},"modified":"2026-11-12T19:03:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T14:03:59","slug":"eight-dead-after-brooklyn-apartment-building-collapses-ny-mayor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4297","title":{"rendered":"Eight dead after Brooklyn apartment building collapses, NY mayor says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eight people were killed when an apartment building in Brooklyn collapsed into a neighbouring construction site on Wednesday, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At least 17 people, including 3 firefighters, were injured, Mamdani said \u200bon Thursday, as rescue operations continued.<\/p>\n

The city\u2019s fire department earlier told Reuters that four people \u200bwere in critical condition after the three-story building in the Flatbush area of \u2060Brooklyn collapsed at about 4 p.m. (2100 GMT) on Wednesday and tumbled into the adjoining construction \u200bsite where excavation work was underway.<\/p>\n

New York television station WABC-TV<\/em> reported that at least four survivors were \u200bpulled from the wreckage about 2 to 2 1\/2 hours after the collapse, including a pregnant woman.<\/p>\n

The number of people who were at home when the 1930-era building collapsed was not immediately known, officials said. They did \u200bnot say how many workers were on the construction site at the time.<\/p>\n

City Fire Department Commissioner \u200bLillian Bonsignore said seven children were among those affected by the collapse. She declined to say whether any of \u200cthe \u2060dead were children or adults.<\/p>\n

<\/a>UNCLEAR HOW MANY MISSING<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Mamdani said the city\u2019s Department of Buildings and law enforcement officials were investigating the cause of the collapse.<\/p>\n

A firefighting crew that happened to be in the neighbourhood was on the scene within a minute of the collapse and helped pull the first \u200bvictims from the debris, authorities \u200btold reporters at \u2060an evening press conference on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Local television news footage showed rescue workers with search dogs combing through the building\u2019s ruins, removing debris in buckets to \u200blook for any signs of people who may have been trapped in \u200bvoids beneath \u2060the debris.<\/p>\n

John Esposito, the city\u2019s fire department chief, said it would take rescue teams several days for the entire site to be \u201csearched for all potential victims,\u201d adding, \u201cWe do not know how many people are \u2060missing overall.\u201d<\/p>\n

About \u200b250 fire and emergency medical services personnel were deployed to \u200bthe scene, the fire department said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eight people were killed when an apartment building in Brooklyn collapsed into a neighbouring construction site on Wednesday, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said. At least 17 people, including 3 firefighters, were injured, Mamdani said \u200bon Thursday, as rescue operations continued. The city\u2019s fire department earlier told Reuters that four people \u200bwere in critical condition after the three-story building in the Flatbush area of \u2060Brooklyn collapsed at about 4 p.m. (2100 GMT) on Wednesday and tumbled into the adjoining construction \u200bsite where excavation work was underway. New York television…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}