Brooklyn collapse rescue ‘very reminiscent’ of WTC search — with chunks of neighboring building likely to fall: FDNY

Source: New York Post

The harrowing search through the rubble of a collapsed Brooklyn apartment building is “very reminiscent” of the World Trade Center horror, an FDNY chief said Thursday — while warning that chunks of neighboring buildings are still expected to fall. At least eight people are dead and 17 wounded after a three-story building fell into an open excavation in Flatbush on Wednesday, with officials warning it could take at least three days to go through the rubble. “It becomes a very complex, time-consuming search where [we’re] crawling in and around the collapse, looking for void spaces, searching those void spaces,” John Esposito, Chief of Department for the FDNY, told FOX 5 early Thursday.