布鲁克林一栋建筑倒塌，造成至少八人死亡，其中包括两名儿童。R.J. RICO、ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE 纽约报道 —— 外面传来的巨大爆裂声惊醒了 Dervie Mapp，她猛地从床上跳起。她跑到布鲁克林公寓的厨房窗前，向隔壁的建筑工地望去。
A building collapse in Brooklyn has claimed the lives of at least eight people, including two children. R.J. RICO, ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE NEW YORK — The loud popping sounds outside alarmed Dervie Mapp enough to make her bolt out of bed. She ran to the kitchen window of her Brooklyn apartment and looked out across the construction site next door.
这位 67 岁的退休老人无助地目睹了工地另一侧的一栋三层楼房倒塌，砖块和扭曲的钢筋如雨点般砸在已被夷为平地的空地上。惊魂未定的幸存者在废墟堆中哭喊求救，那里几分钟前还是人们的家园。
The 67-year-old retiree watched helplessly as a three-story building on the other side of the worksite collapsed, raining bricks and twisted metal onto the razed lot. Stunned survivors cried out amid piles of rubble that moments earlier had been people’s homes.
“我亲眼看着整栋楼塌下来了，”Mapp 周四对美联社记者说。“人们从坑里跑出来，尖叫着、大喊大叫。我简直不敢相信——我吓呆了。” 这起毫无预警发生在周三下午的致命倒塌事故，夷平了一栋底层经营医疗制服店、楼上有四套公寓的建筑。
“I saw the whole thing come down,” Mapp told The Associated Press on Thursday. “People were running up out of the pit, screaming and hollering. I couldn’t believe it — I froze.” deadly collapse that occurred without warning Wednesday afternoon took down a building that housed a store selling medical uniforms on the ground level and four apartments on the floors above.
至少八人遇难，其中包括两名儿童。官员表示，另有 18 人受伤。
At least eight people perished, including two children. Officials said 18 others suffered injuries.
纽约市长 Zohran Mamdani 周四形容遇难者是“父母和孩子、在城市里打拼的年轻家庭，以及来自墨西哥、哥伦比亚、厄瓜多尔、特立尼达等地的移民”。受伤者中包括四名参与救援的消防员。救援工作周四持续进行，救援人员在废墟堆中搜寻幸存者，废墟中包括床垫、破碎的水槽、一台缺门的冰箱，里面的食物杂乱无章。黑胶唱片、鞋子和其他个人物品散落在瓦砾中。
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday described the victims as “parents and children, young families building their lives in our city and immigrants from Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Trinidad and beyond.”Among those hurt were four firefighters assisting with rescue efforts, which continued Thursday as crews searched for survivors through heaps of debris that included mattresses, a broken sink and a refrigerator with its door missing and food jumbled inside. Vinyl records, shoes and other personal belongings littered the rubble.
James Williams 说，周三他在街对面的一家熟食店上班时，整天都能听到建筑工地传来巨大的撞击声。他说他注意到工地旁边的一栋楼有砖块掉落。随后整栋楼轰然倒塌。
James Williams said he heard loud banging at the construction site all day Wednesday as he worked at a deli across the street. He said he noticed bricks falling from a building next to the site. Then the whole building came crashing down.
倒塌撕裂了与相邻建筑共用的一面墙，那栋楼仍然屹立，但其公寓拥挤的衣柜和卧室暴露在外。
The collapse ripped away a wall shared with an adjacent building, which remained standing with the crammed closets and bedrooms of its apartments exposed.
该建筑的监控录像显示，一条室内楼梯在摇晃，其旁边的墙壁伴随巨响倒塌，扬起一团尘土。摄像头随后记录下一名消防员帮助一名住户沿同一楼梯下行，楼梯下方是一个张着大口的废墟深渊。
Security camera video from the building showed an interior stairway shaking as the wall beside it fell in a loud crash and a cloud of dust. The camera later recorded a firefighter helping a resident descend the same stairs above a yawning abyss of debris.
“慢慢来，别急，”那名消防员在该住户同时抓住他的手和扶手时说道。
“Nice and easy,” the firefighter said as the person clutched both his hand and the railing.
尽管现场一片混乱，但刚刚逃出生天的建筑工人折返，开始在废墟中刨挖以营救幸存者，马姆达尼说。他表示，他们的迅速行动挽救了生命。市长周四表示，死者中包括两名建筑工人。
Despite the chaos, construction workers who had barely escaped with their lives turned around and began clawing through the wreckage to free survivors, said Mamdani. He said their swift actions saved lives. The mayor said Thursday that two construction workers were among the dead.
其中一名是26岁的何塞·路易斯·卡瓜纳·科斯基略，厄瓜多尔移民，有一个年幼的孩子，妻子怀有身孕。他的哥哥卡洛斯·卡瓜纳告诉WNBC电视台，他是遇难者之一。
They included 26-year-old José Luis Caguana Cosquillo, an immigrant from Ecuador who had a young child and pregnant wife. His brother, Carlos Caguana, told WNBC-TV that he was one of the people killed.
“他是家里唯一的经济支柱，”卡瓜纳说，并补充道，他弟弟的妻子悲痛欲绝。
“He was the sole provider for the family,” Caguana said, adding that his brother’s wife was devastated.
“她完全崩溃了，”他说，“甚至说不出话来。” 里科从亚特兰大发回报道。美联社记者拉塞尔·拜纳姆（佐治亚州萨凡纳）、汉娜·芬格赫特（爱荷华州得梅因）和斯科特·鲍尔（威斯康星州麦迪逊）对此文有贡献。
“She’s completely overwhelmed,” he said, “and can’t even find the words to speak.”Rico reported from Atlanta. AP journalists Russ Bynum in Savannah, Georgia; Hannah Fingerhut in Des Moines, Iowa; and Scott Bauer in Madison, Wisconsin, contributed.