BREAKING: NYC Mayor Mamdani: 8 dead, 18 injured in Brooklyn building collapse

These were our friends and our neighbors, parents and children. young families building their lives in our city, and immigrants from Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Trinidad, and beyond. Let us continue to hold close those who. have been plunged into unimaginable grief, and pray for a full and rapid recovery. for every New Yorker injured. I want to thank all those who did not. hesitate to help. Those who ran towards danger when. this building collapsed. and in the hours afterwards,

construction workers who had only. barely survived themselves turned back. and dug victims out of the rubble. People are a lot because of their heroism. yesterday. Firefighters arrived on the scene. in less than one minute. after the 911 call first came in. 250 firefighters and EMS personnel. worked tirelessly throughout the evening, the morning and are continuing. now searching for survivors, rescuing people from the rubble.

and tending to the injured. Just because we expect this courage. from the FDNY does not make it any less. extraordinary. And I want to thank those who selflessly. responded from afar, including the New Rochelle Fire Department, and the Red Cross immediately opened.

a reception center for impacted. and displaced residents at the Flatbush. YMCA at 1401 Flatbush Avenue. The city and the Red Cross are continuing. to provide expanded services from the YMCA, including temporary housing for displaced residents, assistance with social services. and mental health support. This response has included agencies across. SOMETHING ACROSS THE WHOLE OF GOVERNMENT. AGENCIES ON SITE INCLUDE THE FDNY, NYPD, NISOM, DEP, DSNY, OCME,

DOB, HBD, NEW YORK STATE DISHES AS. WELL. AS OUR PARTNERS FROM THE Brooklyn District. Attorney's Office. Conditions will grow more challenging today. with the rain, but operations will continue. As I said yesterday evening, a tragedy of this magnitude. demands a comprehensive and thorough investigation. that includes. both the construction site and the building which. collapsed. That has already begun with the Department. of Buildings and law enforcement leading it.

We will find out what happened, and we WE WILL SHARE THAT INFORMATION. WITH NEW YORKERS. THERE ARE FIVE MAIN ENTITIES. INVOLVED WITH THIS CONSTRUCTION. SITE WHO ARE ASSOCIATED WITH APPROXIMATELY 100. OTHER SITES. ACROSS THE SITES OF THE CITY, OUR DEPARTMENT OF BUILDINGS IS. COMMENCING SWEAPS OF THOSE SITES TODAY. AS WE SEARCH FOR SURVIVORS AND CLEAR THE SCENE, THERE WILL BE A CONTINUED IMPACT ON. NEARBY RESIDENTS. Vacate orders are in place on 1323,

1325 and 1327 Flatbush Avenues. Residents of other buildings further south. on Flatbush Avenue who were temporarily. displaced have been allowed to. reoccupy their homes. The MTA has diverted the following bus routes, B41, B49, B103, B8 and BM2. Flatbush Avenue remains closed. between Clarendon Road.

outside New York City. Please call 212-639-9675. Again, that's 212-639-9675. This has been a very dark evening and morning. for our city. We are mourning too many people who we loved. And as we grieve and as we rebuild,

we will do so together as one city. Thank you, and I will now pass it over. to our fire. commissioner. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. As you all know, yesterday evening, we had a major technical response here. after a three-story multiple dwelling. collapsed into adjacent construction site. Overnight, our members recovered four. deceased. victims bringing the total to six.

dead here on the scene. Two more of those victims succumbed to. their injuries at the hospital. Our firefighters and EMS members have been. on the scene since 4 p .m. yesterday, we have been rotating them. through working diligently and methodically. throughout the night. They have been digging through the debris. and searching for any survivors. Our firefighters and rescue medics worked. hand-in-hand in that pit, finding people,

freeing them from the rubble, starting lifesaving medical care right away. and transferring the patients to an awaiting EMS. unit for continued medical treatment. and transport to an emergency room. The work done here over the last 20 hours has. been incredibly. WE SEE THAT WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF A RAINSTORM, BUT THAT WILL NOT STOP OUR OPERATIONS HERE. IT WILL DEFINITELY HINDER OUR EFFORTS,

BUT THIS TYPE OF an emergency is something. our members train extensively extensively for. and we will be here until we are 100 % sure. there are no more people trapped. To be clear, we have not shifted from. rescue to recovery. We are still in the search and rescue phase. We have moved into a general debris removal, and we are using grapplers to move big. equip big chunks of the debris.

so we can search beneath them. We have also activated our incident. management team, which is a specialized unit that helps manage. large-scale emergencies. throughout the country. The IMT was organized by the FDNY. in a direct response to September 11th. to help us manage prolonged responses. They will be on scene throughout the entire. OPERATION TO MAINTAIN THE EFFORTS HERE. WE GREATLY APPRECIATE AND SUPPORT. THE COLLABORATION WE HAVE HAD WITH.

ALL THE OTHER AGENCIES INVOLVED. IN THIS PARTICULAR incident. This is a devastating tragedy for New York, and our prayers are with those who are. recovering in the hospital and those who have died. Our prayers are with those who are recovering. The FDNY mourns with those families, and we promise with everything we have, we will not stop working until everyone is rescued. or recovered.

Yes, so on the first question, it is still too early to declare that. What I will say is the partnership. from the district attorney as well AS WELL. AS ACROSS CITY GOVERNMENT IS TO EXPLORE. EVERY POSSIBLE EVENTUALITY OF WHAT THE. INVESTIGATION WILL YIELD. TO YOUR SECOND QUESTION, THE DEPARTMENT OF BUILDINGS. HAS. IDENTIFIED FIVE DIFFERENT entities associated. with the construction site. Those five entities are associated. with a hundred other sites across the city.

The Department of Buildings is commencing. sweeps of those sites to ensure that. if there is anything New Yorkers need. to be worried about, we are on the scene and doing something about.

we are lucky in new york city to have. the greatest fire department the world. has ever seen and so as long as the fire. department determined something is. a rescue operation I have full belief. that they are exploring every possible. outcome of that I don't know. if you want to add anything we we always. assume that there are more people there. until we can access the ground so. until we've removed some of the bigger. um bigger debris and are able to. search beneath them this will remain a rescue.

operation and i'll just i just want to add one. MORE THING WHICH IS THAT WHEN I WAS IN THE. HOSPITAL MEETING WITH THESE FAMILIES WHO. HAVE BEEN DEVASTATED BY THIS COLLAPSE, ONE OF THE FAMILY MEMBERS PULLED ME ASIDE AND. TOLD ME HOW MUCH SHE appreciated the work. of the fdny that they were there. within one minute of the 9-1-1 call coming. in that four firefighters are in the hospital. as a result of injuries they face because of their.

work that they were running towards danger. so that these family members. might have another shot at having the people they. love still be. in their lives she wanted me to share. that with this fire department. and with the city as a a whole. sorry we're going to go over here. if you can speak up please. there was supposed to be a special. inspector on this site. and then to prove it expired over the.

I am incredibly troubled. These are the examples of why we are conducting. a full and thorough investigation and why. the investigation will not stop at the sites. that we are here to speak about today, but will extend to any and all sites. that those who operated these sites are.

currently operating in across our city. I'm going to pass it over to our Department. of Buildings commissioner to add. additional details.