1 Dead, 1 Hurt After Wall Collapses At Brooklyn Home: FDNY

Park Slope NY

28 December, 2020

3:16 PM

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BROOKLYN, NY — One person is dead and another is seriously hurt after a wall collapsed at a Brooklyn home on Monday, according to officials. Emergency responders rushed to the home on 42nd Street in Sunset Park shortly after 1 p.m. after part of a retaining wall in the backyard of a neighboring building collapsed into the yard, FDNY and Department of Buildings officials said. More than 120 FDNY members were called to help rescue two people that were trapped under the wall, according to the department. One of the people, a construction worker, was pronounced dead on the scene and the other was sent to the hospital with serious injuries, officials said. DOB officials said it appears there was work being done in the yard with the wall. "Our inspectors are currently on scene determining what occurred at the property today," the DOB spokesperson said.