Video shows wall crumbling inside Brooklyn apartment as building collapses killing 8
A three-story building in Flatbush, Brooklyn, collapsed on Wednesday, killing eight people and injuring nearly 20, including three firefighters. Newly released footage shot inside a third-floor apartment captures the moment the unit gave way.
Newly released video shot inside a third-floor apartment captures the moment a three-story building in Flatbush, Brooklyn, began to give way, a collapse that killed eight people and injured nearly 20 others on Wednesday. Among the injured are three firefighters.
The footage shows the living room wall crumbling as the unit collapses. Anderson Velez, his wife and their two children were inside the apartment at the time. The video offers a rare, close view of the seconds before the structure failed, which had been a residential building in a densely built neighborhood.
Rescue crews searched the rubble for hours before confirming the deaths. The search was slow and painstaking, carried out through debris that had buried multiple floors. Mayor Zohran Mamdani publicly expressed grief over the loss of life on X, writing about the toll the collapse has taken on the community.
Excavation work was underway at an adjacent construction site on Bedford Avenue when the building came down. Buildings Commissioner Ahmed Tigani confirmed that the excavation was taking place at the time of the collapse. He also confirmed a gap between what has been approved for the site and what the developer is now seeking. The approved plan calls for a three-story building. Current plans seek nine stories, and that expanded proposal has not been approved.
The owner of the neighboring property is under scrutiny for past construction violations. The contractor on the adjacent site was reportedly served with a city stop-work order in March, which the contractor is said to have ignored. It remains unclear whether that earlier order bears on the collapse.
The official cause of the collapse has not yet been established. Investigators are expected to examine the excavation work, the construction activity next door and the history of violations at the sites involved. Until that review is complete, the connection between the adjacent work and the failure of the building remains unconfirmed.
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