Casualties continue to rise after Brooklyn building collapses
By NPR Staff (NPR)
Nov. 12, 2026 8:12 p.m.
A view of the site where a building collapsed in Brooklyn, New York on Wednesday.
Yuki Iwamura
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 image: First responders navigate a collapsed building in Brooklyn, New York on Wednesday. Second image: A construction worker embraces a child at the scene of a partial building collapse on Wednesday.
First image: Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images. Second image: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images.
First image: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during a press conference after a building collapsed in Brooklyn on Wednesday. Second image: 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.
First image: Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images. Second image: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images.
First image: 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. Second image: A drone flies over the site of a building that collapsed the previous day in Brooklyn, New York on Thursday. Third image: An excavator cleans up debris at the scene of a partial building collapse on Thursday in Flatbush, Brooklyn.
First and third images: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images. Second image: Yuki Iwamura.
