Topic:Disasters, Accidents and Emergency Incidents
One person has died and others have been injured after a building collapsed in Brooklyn.
Firefighters are searching through the rubble for others.
The building that collapsed was next to another building that had been torn down for construction.
Firefighters are digging through the rubble of a three-storey building in New York 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 Flatbush, Brooklyn at about 4pm Wednesday, local time.
News helicopter footage showed dozens of firefighters scouring the debris, with a group homing in on one area and appearing to use a saw to cut through the wreckage.
One person had died and four others were rushed to a hospital in critical condition, according to the New York City Fire Department.
Six additional people have been taken to hospital with minor injuries.
The aerial videos showed firefighters digging at least one person out of the rubble and removing them on a stretcher.
The building that collapsed had been perched at the edge of a site where another one-storey building had been torn down for a construction project.
The site was being excavated, and the building that fell down filled the construction pit with bricks and wood.
