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Building collapse in Brooklyn kills at least one, injures 10

Reuters
Building collapse in Brooklyn kills at least one, injures 10

NEW YORK, Nov 11 (Reuters) - The ‌collapse of a three-story apartment building in Brooklyn killed at least one person ​and ‌injured at least 10 others on Wednesday, the ‌New York City Fire Department said.

Dozens of firefighters and a search dog could be seen combing ‌through the rubble, removing debris by the bucketful, at the four-unit building built in 1930. Drone footage from local television station WABC showed a stove, a ⁠toilet and a door amid debris that had fallen ‌into a pit at an ⁠adjacent construction site. Construction workers were among the ​injured, according to local media reports.

Two and a half hours after the collapse, a person ​was pulled alive from the rubble, put on ​a stretcher ‌and taken away in an ambulance, WABC footage showed.

"I'm ​very happy, I'm very happy," a man ⁠who believed the person was his ‌six-month-pregnant wife ​told a WABC reporter.

Later, as ​flashlight beams bounced off strips of reflective tape on rescuers' dark coats, another person could be seen being pulled alive from the rubble.

The Fire ‌Department said it received a call about the full collapse of a building just after 4 p.m. ‌Eastern ​time (2100 GMT) on Wednesday.

The Fire Department had said four people were critically injured and six more sustained minor injuries before two people were rescued.

(Reporting by Maria ‌Tsvetkova; editing by Donna Bryson and Chris Reese)