00:00Eight of our fellow New Yorkers, six adults and two children, have died as a result of the three-story
00:06building collapse here at 1321 Flatbush Avenue.
00:11Eighteen other people were injured from the collapse, 14 civilians and four firefighters.
00:17I want to take a moment to remember those we have so senselessly lost.
00:21These were our friends and our neighbors, parents and children, young families building their lives in our city, and immigrants
00:30from Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Trinidad and beyond.
00:34I want to thank all those who did not hesitate to help, those who ran towards danger when this building
00:40collapsed and in the hours afterwards.
00:42Construction workers who had only barely survived themselves turned back and dug victims out of the rubble.
00:48As I said yesterday evening, a tragedy of this magnitude demands a comprehensive and thorough investigation that includes both the
00:57construction site and the building which collapsed.
01:00That has already begun with the Department of Buildings and law enforcement leading it.
01:04This has been a very dark evening and morning for our city.
01:10We are mourning too many people who we loved, and as we grieve and as we rebuild, we will do
01:17so together as one city.
