A man reacts after learning that his six-months-pregnant wife was rescued alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in Brooklyn on Nov. 12. (Foto: Instagram)
A man was overcome with emotion on Nov. 12 after learning that his six-months-pregnant wife had been rescued alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in Brooklyn, New York. She was placed on a stretcher and taken by ambulance for medical care, according to the report.
The man had been outside the site and tried to get past police to reach his wife, but officers stopped him and moved him to a safe area. He pleaded for help and urgently sought news about her. Around 6:30 p.m., he was told she had been found alive. After hearing the news, he thanked the people involved in the rescue, saying, “I’m very happy. I want to thank all of you.”
The three-story building collapse left at least two people dead and 17 injured, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said at a news conference that evening. Four of the injured people were in critical condition, and seven were children. Mamdani said he was “heartbroken” by the disaster and asked the public to pray for those who died, their families and the injured. He also wished those hospitalized a “quick and full recovery.”
The collapse happened shortly after 4 p.m. local time on Bedford Avenue, between Newkirk and Flatbush avenues, in the residential Flatbush neighborhood, CBS News reported. Authorities had not released the identities of those who died.
