{"id":19214,"date":"2026-11-13T08:39:24","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T08:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=19214"},"modified":"2026-11-13T08:39:25","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T08:39:25","slug":"eight-dead-after-brooklyn-apartment-building-collapses-ny-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=19214","title":{"rendered":"Eight dead after Brooklyn apartment building collapses: NY mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Apartment building collapses into adjoining construction site<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>\u00a0Excavation work underway at construction site, says fire chief.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Official says rescuers may need several days to search site.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NEW YORK: Eight people were killed when an apartment building in Brooklyn collapsed into a neighboring construction site on Wednesday, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least 17 people, including 3 firefighters were injured, Mamdani said on Thursday, as rescue operations continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The city&#8217;s fire department earlier told <em>Reuters<\/em> that four people were in critical condition after the three-story building in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn collapsed at about 4pm (2100 GMT) on Wednesday and tumbled into the adjoining construction site where excavation work was underway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New York television station WABC-TV reported that at least four survivors were pulled from the wreckage about 2 to 2 1\/2 hours after the collapse, including a pregnant woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The number of people who were at home when the 1930-era building collapsed was not immediately known, officials said. They did not say how many workers were on the construction site at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">City Fire Department Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore said seven children were among those affected by the collapse. She declined to say whether any of the dead were children or adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Unclear how many missing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mamdani said the city&#8217;s Department of Buildings and law enforcement officials were investigating the cause of the collapse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A firefighting crew that happened to be in the neighborhood was on the scene within a minute of the collapse and helped pull the first victims from the debris, authorities told reporters at an evening press conference on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Local television news footage showed rescue workers with search dogs combing through the building&#8217;s ruins, removing debris in buckets to look for any signs of people who may have been trapped in voids beneath the debris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John Esposito, the city&#8217;s fire department chief, said it would take rescue teams several days for the entire site to be &#8220;searched for all potential victims,&#8221; adding, &#8220;We do not know how many people are missing overall.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About 250 fire and emergency medical services personnel were deployed to the scene, the fire department said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Eight people were killed when an apartment building in Brooklyn collapsed into a neighboring construction site on Wednesday, New York City Mayor Zohran..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/10-2.png",800,927,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/10-2-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/10-2-259x300.png",259,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/10-2-768x890.png",768,890,true],"large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/10-2.png",800,927,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/10-2.png",800,927,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/10-2.png",800,927,false]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?cat=7\" rel=\"category\">World<\/a>","tag_info":"World","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19216,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19214\/revisions\/19216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}