Brooklyn building collapse kills at least one and traps others in wreckage
Three-story building was at the edge of a construction site where another edifice had been demolished Firefighters dug through the rubble of a three-story…
Three-story building was at the edge of a construction site where another edifice had been demolished Firefighters dug through the rubble of a three-story building in Brooklyn on Wednesday after it collapsed at the edge of a construction site, killing at least one person and trapping others beneath the wreckage.
Firefighters were called to the scene in the borough’s Flatbush section at about 4pm. The Guardian reported the story.
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