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Casualties continue to rise after Brooklyn building collapses

NPR | By NPR Staff

Published November 12, 2026 at 12:15 PM CST

A view of the site where a building collapsed in Brooklyn, New York on Wednesday.

The New York City Fire Department reported Thursday that more victims had been found after a three-story residential building in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn collapsed a day earlier.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani said six people had been declared dead at the scene. Two others died in a hospital. 18 other people were injured in the building collapse.

Search efforts are continuing with more than 250 firefighters and emergency workers deployed to the site, according to city officials.

First responders rescue a person after a building collapsed in Brooklyn, New York on Wednesday.

First responders navigate a collapsed building in Brooklyn, New York on Wednesday.

A construction worker embraces a child at the scene of a partial building collapse on Wednesday.

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Onlookers watch as emergency personnel respond to the scene of a partial building collapse on Wednesday in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during a press conference after a building collapsed in Brooklyn on Wednesday.

New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams consoles a man after his pregnant wife was rescued from the rubble at the scene of a partial building collapse on Wednesday.

Members of the New York City Fire Department work at the scene one day after a building collapsed in Brooklyn.

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A resident from a building watches as cleanup begins at the scene of a partial building collapse on Thursday in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.

A drone flies over the site of a building that collapsed the previous day in Brooklyn, New York on Thursday.

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An excavator cleans up debris at the scene of a partial building collapse on Thursday in Flatbush, Brooklyn.

Members of the New York City Fire Department walk on the roof of a building next to the one that collapsed on Wednesday in Brooklyn.