Ann Marie did not hear the collapse of the Brooklyn building behind her house on Wednesday nite due to the loud noise of her radio, but she quickly noticed the bright lights of fire department trucks racing to the area.
Workers were still looking for bodies when she went outside to the ruins. The interior of multiple apartment buildings was revealed when one of the building’s walls tore off, and the debris fell onto the adjacent construction site.
The disaster claimed the lives of at least eight of her neighbors, including two children and six adults.
According to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the disaster claimed the lives of at least eight of her neighbors, including two children and six adults. According to the news, five of the victims were locals.”I’m really scared right now,” Marie said. “Now that I’m seeing exactly this side of the building, you can imagine the fright of those people, what happened to them.”
Mamdani claimed to have visited survivors in the hospital on Thursday afternoon. Four firefighters were among the eighteen injured. There is one critically ill person.Mamdani continued, “I want to take a moment to remember those we have so senselessly lost.”
Eight Victims Identified After Collapse
The victims were identified as Nicole Daniela Salvada Rodriguez, 9, Juan Daniel Salvada Guzman, 31, Kevin Santiago Reyes Gonzalez, 10, Barry Mamadou, 23, and Ndiaye Mamadou, 31, by a senior New York Police Department officer later on Thursday, CBS said. They lived in the collapsed building.
The other three victims were not local residents. Edgar Sapon, 26, lived in Hell’s Kitchen, Jose Luis Caguana Cosquillo, 26, lived in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood, and Gabriel Siguencia, 22, lived in the Bronx.
According to Mamdani, the New York City Fire Department arrived on the site within a minute of the emergency call.
Residents Recall Fear After Building Collapse
Last night, Patricia Starek noticed the helicopters close to her house while she waited for her son to return from school. At first, the influx of emergency personnel evoked thoughts of the terrorist attacks in New York in 2001.
Brooklyn Community Mourns Collapse Victims
Joyette Kerr had been praying with family members who were missing loved ones at the location since midnight.
She comforted the wife of a young construction worker who perished when the building collapsed on him at the church across the street. His body was found by rescuers, according to Kerr.
Pregnant Woman Rescued as Neighbours Mourn
“His wife was very hysterical,” Kerr, who has lived in the area since her adolescence, remarked. “She couldn’t take the pain.”
She claimed that another man had been feverishly visiting every hospital in the area in an attempt to locate his two nephews, but he was still unsuccessful.
Another six-month-pregnant woman was seen on camera being pulled from the debris.
Longtime Flatbush resident Starek said she was going to the neighborhood YMCA, where several family members were gathered, to see if she could help. Many others in the neighborhood were also doing the same.
