A young dad is the first identified victim of a New York City building collapse that left two children and six adults dead.
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José Luis Caguana Cosquillo, 26, was one of the victims, friends told the New York Daily News.
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The migrant from Ecuador is survived by a 4-year-old son and a pregnant wife.
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“She’s heading to the hospital tomorrow for the baby to be born,” the president of the Club Deportivo La Bahía soccer team where Jose was a member, told the outlet.
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The three-story building collapsed into an open construction site along Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn around 4 p.m. Wednesday.
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Six people were dead at the scene and two more died at the hospital, officials said Thursday.
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Another 18 people, including 14 civilians and four firefighters, were injured.
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Crews continue to search the scene for survivors as officials now work to determine what caused the collapse.
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“This has been a devastating evening and morning for our city,” New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Thursday.
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Mamdani said at a press conference that the investigation will not only try to determine why the building collapsed, but also examine other sites operated by the same construction companies.
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The names of the other victims have not been released.
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The building at 1321 Flatbush Ave. housed both retail and apartment space.
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It’s unclear how many people in total lived at the site.
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Inspectors had discovered violations at the site months before the collapse, according to the New York Post.
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A stop-work order was issued in March, and the Department of Buildings concluded that the building was being demolished without overhead protection, such as netting, to protect nearby buildings.
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In April, demolition work had resumed despite the stop-work order.
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Work was eventually allowed to continue in May.
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The site is owned by a company linked to Robert Fischman, who wanted to build a 56,000-square-foot building there, according to WNBC.
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As rescue efforts continued on a rainy Thursday, some were praising the saving of one pregnant woman from the wreckage.
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Video captured dozens of firefighters lifting her out of the rubble and passing her along their line so she could be taken for care.
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Speaking to CBS News, a man revealed that his wife, who is six months pregnant, was among those rescued.
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However, for some time, he did not know if she was alive or dead.
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He's looking for his pregnant wife, and she's not picking up the phone,” Jumaane Williams, a New York City public advocate, told the outlet amid the search.
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By 6.30 p.m., the news that his wife was alive was relayed to the as-yet-unnamed man, ABC7 reports.
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“I have an update.
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I am very happy,” the man said.
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City Councilwoman Farah Louis told the outlet that the woman, who had been taken to receive medical care, remained in critical condition as of Wednesday night.
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Anderson Velez, who lived at the collapsed building, told The New York Post that his two children, aged 2 and 7, were rescued after being trapped under the rubble.
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“She called me when the building collapsed while she was inside with rubble on top of her,” Velez said, referring to his wife.
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“She was screaming for someone to help get my son out and then the call cut off.”
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