至少两人死亡，另有多人在纽约布鲁克林一处建筑工地边缘的三层楼建筑于周三下午坍塌后被困在废墟中。
At least two people have died, while others have been trapped in the rubble after a three-storey building collapsed in Brooklyn, New York, at the edge of a construction site on Wednesday afternoon.
约250名消防员和警察利用凿子和锯子清理废墟，将沾满灰尘的人从扭曲的木材和砖块堆中救出。
Some 250 firefighters and police officers tackled the rubble with pickaxes and saws to pull people covered in dust from beneath piles of twisted wood and brick.
在新闻发布会上，官员表示至少有17人被送医，其中四人情况危急。虽然目前尚不清楚是否还有人被困，纽约市消防局官员称，搜救行动将持续到夜间。
During a press conference, officials said that at least 17 people had been hospitalised, four in critical condition. While it is unclear whether people might still be trapped, New York City Fire Department officials stated that search and rescue operations would continue into the night.
“这已经是一个极其艰难且进展迅速的情况，需要在不稳定的废墟中穿行，并在表面下的危险空洞中作业，”马德纳市长祖兰·马德纳说。“这种救援正是消防局（FDNY）所训练的内容。”纽约市建筑专员阿赫迈·蒂加尼表示，该建筑倒塌时，施工人员正在邻地的空地为新建筑挖掘。
“This has been an incredibly challenging and fast-moving situation, with precarious wreckage to navigate and dangerous voids beneath the surface,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani said. “This type of rescue is exactly what the FDNY trains for.”According to New York City’s Buildings Commissioner, Ahmed Tigani, the building fell when construction workers were digging an empty lot next door for a new building. However, the cause of the collapse is under investigation.
该建筑原本设有地面层商铺和上层公寓，已被压成建筑坑底的巨大废墟堆。与该建筑相邻、共用一面墙的建筑虽仍站立，但遭受严重损毁，其外立面大部分被撕裂，内部暴露，包括一间卧室和悬挂的衣物仍在衣柜内。
The collapsed building, which housed apartments above ground-level businesses, was reduced to a massive mound of debris at the bottom of the construction pit. The neighbouring structure, which shared a wall with the building, was left standing but suffered extensive damage. Much of its exterior wall had been ripped away, leaving the interiors exposed, including a bedroom and closets with clothes still hanging inside.
一名幸存者是一名女性，消防员在当日下午晚些时候从废墟中将她救出，此时已在废墟中凿开一个通道。与此同时，搜救行动继续进行，救出的还包括七名儿童，但官员未说明这些儿童是否已在死亡人数之列。
One of the survivors was a woman who was pulled from the rubble by firefighters late in the afternoon after a hole had been dug through the debris. Meanwhile, more people continued to be pulled from the rubble as search and rescue operations proceeded, including seven children, although officials did not specify whether any of them were among the dead.
FDNY专员莉莉安·本尼索尼说，救援队伍在手动挖掘并使用无人机开展行动时，正在进行“危险且极其危险”的工作。“每一个动作都已精心安排，”她说。根据消防官员的说法，一名消防员受了轻微伤。
FDNY Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore said the rescue teams, who were digging by hand and using drones to carry out operations, were performing “dangerous and perilous” work. “Every move is choreographed,” she said. One firefighter was left with minor injuries, according to fire officials.
据《纽约邮报》报道，被倒塌大楼的居民安德森·维莱兹（Anderson Velez）回忆说，他当时在工作，妻子打电话称他们两个孩子（2岁和7岁）正被困在废墟中。
One resident of the collapsed building, Anderson Velez, recounted that he was at work when his wife phoned and said that their two children, aged 2 and 7, were among those trapped in the rubble, the New York Post reported.
“她在大楼倒塌时正被埋在废墟里，她在电话里大喊要有人帮忙把我儿子救出来，然后电话就中断了，”他说。维莱兹说，他后来得知自己的家人已从废墟中获救且仍然活着。
“She called me when the building collapsed while she was inside with rubble on top of her. She was screaming for someone to help get my son out and then the call cut off,” he said. Velez said he later found out that his family had been rescued from the rubble alive.