00:01At least two people were killed and 17 others injured, including seven children, when a three-story mixed-use building
00:10collapsed in Brooklyn on Wednesday.
00:12Fire Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore said 19 people were affected, including four in critical condition, 12 in stable condition, and a
00:22firefighter with minor injuries.
00:24She warned that the casualty toll could rise as search and rescue operations continued.
00:30The building in Brooklyn's Flatbush neighborhood collapsed into an adjacent construction site shortly after 4 p.m. local time, prompting
00:38a major search and rescue operation.
00:41I know that things always change, but many of these buildings are 100 years old.
00:45You cannot build the kind of high-rises that you want on weak foundation.
00:49And so I just hope that and pray that there are no more deaths, that those who are injured, they're
00:53not gravely injured, and they can find a way to kind of like,
00:55I don't know how you recover from this, but trying to find a way to kind of like move on
00:59with their lives.
01:01Firefighters used ladders, power saws, and search dogs to comb through the debris, rescuing several survivors, including a woman who
01:09had been trapped for hours.
01:11The city's Department of Buildings was investigating the collapse and assessing the structural safety of nearby buildings.
01:18The cause of the incident remained unknown.
01:23Firefighters used in an Nauntlet.
