莱奥诺尔·尤帕周四跪倒在地，当时一名西班牙语媒体记者告诉她，她22岁的儿子是前一天布鲁克林大楼倒塌事故中丧生的八人之一。
Leonor Yupa dropped to her knees Thursday when a Spanish-language media reporter said her 22-year old son was among eight people whose lives were claimed by the Brooklyn building collapse the day before.
“我要我的儿子！我要我的儿子！”这位厄瓜多尔母亲用西班牙语哭喊着，家人试图扶住尤帕，聚集在伯利恒基督上帝教堂的其他人则向她保证报道尚未得到证实。
“I want my son! I want my son!” the Ecuadorian mother cried in Spanish as family members tried to hold Yupa up and others who gathered at Bethesda Church of God in Christ assured her the reports were unconfirmed.
另一名刚刚失去丈夫的女子发出的痛苦哭喊声，在倒塌现场对面的布鲁克林教堂内回荡。当这名女子得知丈夫的遗体于周四上午从废墟中被拉出时，她瘫倒在地，呼喊着丈夫的名字。“托马什！托马西托！”她哭喊道。家人围在寡妇身边，组成一个祈祷圈。
The agonizing cries of another woman who just lost her husband reverberated through the Brooklyn sanctuary across the street from the collapse. When the woman learned her husband’s body was pulled from the debris Thursday morning, she collapsed and wailed her husband’s name. “Tomás! Tomasito!” she cried. Family members gathered around the widow and formed a prayer circle.
在教堂外面，一位焦急的父亲也在祈祷。他正焦急地等待得知儿子的下落，他的儿子是一名建筑工人，倒塌发生后就一直联系不上。
Just outside the church, a nervous father also prayed. He was anxiously waiting to learn the fate of his son, a construction worker who has not been reachable since the collapse.
在弗拉特布什社区——这里居住着混合的移民社区——三层混合用途大楼于退伍军人节倒塌，造成六名成人和两名儿童死亡、十余人受伤，事发当天许多家庭都待在家中。
In the Flatbush neighborhood – home to a mix of immigrant communities – six adults and two children had died and over a dozen were injured after the three-story mixed-use building collapsed on Veterans Day, a day on which many families stayed home.
“我想花一点时间纪念那些我们如此无辜失去的人，”市长佐赫兰·马姆达尼周四对记者说。“他们是我们的朋友和邻居，父母和孩子，在我们城市建立生活的年轻家庭，以及来自墨西哥、哥伦比亚、厄瓜多尔、特立尼达等地的移民。” 悲剧发生的第二天，居民和其他围观者挤满了人行道，施工设备被用来清理现场的碎片和瓦砾。衣服仍挂在相邻大楼的一间壁橱里，那里的一面墙在倒塌时塌了下来。
“I want to take a moment to remember those we have so senselessly lost,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani told reporters Thursday. “These were our friends and our neighbors, parents and children, young families building their lives in our city, and immigrants from Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Trinidad, and beyond.”The day after the tragedy, residents and other bystanders crowded the sidewalk as construction equipment was used to removed debris and rubble from the site. Clothes still hung from a closet in an adjoining building where a wall came down during the collapse.
大雨倾盆而下，砸在弗拉特布什大道与贝德福德大道的交叉口。这里是一个多元文化聚居区，也是纽约市加勒比海裔侨民社区的核心地带。沿街商铺和教堂的招牌上印着的名字，折射出牙买加、海地、特立尼达和多巴哥等地的文化，近年来也增添了来自墨西哥和厄瓜多尔的新移民气息。
A heavy rain pelted the intersection of Flatbush and Bedford avenues, a multicultural enclave that is the heart of New York City’s Caribbean diaspora. The names on signs of storefront churches and businesses – from bakeries, restaurants and beauty salons – reflect places like Jamaica, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, and more recently, newcomers from Mexico and Ecuador.
各国官方宣布，周三坍塌事故的遇难者中包括三名哥伦比亚公民、两名厄瓜多尔男子和一名26岁的危地马拉男子。
Among those killed Wednesday were three Colombian citizens, two Ecuadorian men and a 26-year-old Guatemalan man, officials from the countries announced.
事故发生后，当地家庭、神职人员和社区团体聚集在一起，互相扶持，同时要求对这个以黑人和移民为主的社区的住房状况和施工监管追责。
In the aftermath of the collapse, local families, clergy and community groups gathered to support one another while demanding accountability for housing conditions and construction oversight in their predominantly Black and immigrant neighborhood.
周三晚上，尤帕和其他亲属花了数小时奔波于布鲁克林的各家医院，希望能找到她的儿子加布里尔·西格恩西亚。
On Wednesday night, Yupa and other relatives spent hours scouring hospitals throughout Brooklyn hoping to find her son, Gabriel Siguencia.
第二天，家人来到坍塌现场。尤帕在教堂的遮雨棚下躲避大雨，一名带着西印度口音的女子提醒附近的围观者，她看见救援人员从废墟中拉出了一名幼童和一名女子。
The family then visited the collapse site Thursday. Yupa shielded herself from heavy rain under the canopy of the church as a woman with a West Indian lilt alerted other bystanders nearby that she saw first responders pull a young child and a woman from the rubble.
随后传来了关于西格恩西亚的消息。据叔伯、堂表亲和家庭朋友透露，他从厄瓜多尔抵达纽约仅约一个月，在毗邻坍塌大楼的建筑工地做木工才两周左右。
Then came the news about Siguencia, who had arrived in New York from Ecuador only about a month ago and started working as a carpenter at the construction site adjacent to the building collapse about two weeks ago, according to uncles, cousins and family friends.
“他来美国寻找的机会，和世界各地来到这里的人追求的一样，”家庭朋友哈维尔·奥尔特加说，他开车从康涅狄格州接西格恩西亚的母亲来到现场。“这就是他在那里干活的原因。” 和许多其他家庭一样，西格恩西亚的亲人在坍塌现场对面的街道上等待消息。有人像那名从废墟中获救的六个月身孕妇女的丈夫一样，得知亲人平安后欣喜若狂。
“He came to America looking for the same opportunities that people from all over the world come here for,” said family friend Javier Ortega, who drove Siguencia’s mother to the site from her home in Connecticut. “That’s why he was working there.”Like many other families, Siguencia’s loved ones awaited news about him across the street from the collapse site. Some, like the husband of a six-month pregnant woman rescued from the rubble, rejoiced as they received word their loved one was safe.
随着周四降雨加大，一位伯利恒基督圣洁教会的成员邀请西格内西亚一家走进了被称为“小海地”社区的温暖门厅。
As the downpour intensified Thursday over the neighborhood known as “Little Haiti,” a member of Bethesda Church of God in Christ invited Siguencia’s family inside the warm vestibule.
尤帕泪流满面，坐在一把折叠椅上，一位海地裔教会成员给她递来几杯水。当尤帕抽泣时，家人围在她身边，厄瓜多尔领事馆官员打电话试图查明消息。
Yupa, weeping, sat on a folding chair as a Haitian church member served her cups of water. As Yupa sobbed, family members surrounded her and Ecuadoran consular officials made calls trying to track down information.
门厅另一侧的教堂里挤满了海地裔信徒，轻声细语的“哈利路亚，哈利路亚”从门缝中飘出。
Soft murmurs of “Hallelujah, hallelujah” spilled out from the church filled with Haitian worshippers on the other side of the vestibule doors.
“在这个国家，我们都得互相照应，”给尤帕等人送水的那位女士说，“不管你来自哪里。”
“We all have to look out for each other in this country,” said the woman who brought water to Yupa and the others. “It doesn’t matter where you come from.”
另一位女士恳求正在哭泣的尤帕：“去教堂里祈祷，求你了。”时间在沉重的气氛中流逝，随后厄瓜多尔领事馆官员陪同尤帕及其亲友在大雨中走了几个街区，来到附近的一家基督教青年会（YMCA），遇难者和失踪者的亲属正在那里聚集。
Another woman implored Yupa as she wept: “Go in the church and pray, please.”Time ticked by with a heaviness before officials with the Ecuadoran consul walked Yupa and her friends and family members several blocks in the heavy rain to a nearby YMCA, where relatives of the dead and missing had been gathering.
厄瓜多尔总领事希塞拉·安德拉德·瓦伦斯随后在门外告诉记者，当局已向西格内西亚的母亲证实了他的死讯。另一名厄瓜多尔公民、26岁的何塞·路易斯·卡瓜纳·科斯基约也遇难了。
The consul general of Ecuador, Gicela Andrade Valens, later told reporters outside that authorities had confirmed Siguencia’s death to his mother. Another Ecuadorian national, 26-year-old José Luis Caguana Cosquillo, was also killed.
领事馆表示：“我们向他的家人和亲友致以最深切的哀悼，在这悲痛时刻，我们与他们站在一起，表达深切的团结。”
“We express our deepest condolences to his family and loved ones, and we stand with them in profound solidarity in these moments of grief,” the consulate said.
哥伦比亚驻纽约领事馆称，有两名哥伦比亚裔儿童和一名成人在坍塌中遇难。
Colombia’s consulate in New York said two Colombian children and one adult were killed in the collapse.
“哥伦比亚驻纽约领事馆向遇难者家属和亲友致以最诚挚的哀悼，”领事馆表示。
“The Consulate of Colombia in New York reiterates its most sincere condolences to the victims’ families and loved ones,” the consulate said.
阿尔弗雷德·贾斯汀·约瑟夫牧师的教会——伯利恒基督圣洁教会，成为了伤者、焦虑者和悲伤者敞开的避难所。
Pastor Alfred Justin Joseph’s church, the Bethesda Church of God in Christ, became an open sanctuary for the injured, the anxious and the grieving.
约瑟夫说：“他们当时站在街上。我让他们进来了。谢天谢地，教会里有咨询师——专门做悲伤辅导的人。”各路人马陆续来到他的教会，第一批就有十几人。虽然其中一些人后来被送往当地的基督教青年会（YMCA）或酒店，但教会依然是安慰和支持的核心地带。
“They were standing in the street. I let them in,” Joseph said. “Thank God we have counselors in the church — people who do counseling for grief.”Various groups have streamed through his church, including a dozen people in the first wave. While some have since been escorted to a local YMCA or hotels, the church remains an epicenter of consolation and support.
弗拉特布什居民乔伊·科尔在听到一位在倒塌事故中失去配偶的年轻女子哭喊声后，带领大家围成祈祷圈，试图在毁灭性的时刻给予一些安慰。
As she heard the wailing of the young woman who lost her spouse in the collapse, Flatbush resident Joy Kerr led a prayer circle to offer some comfort in a moment of devastation.
科尔走进教会，发现那位年轻女子在得知丈夫——一名建筑工人——在大楼倒塌中丧生后，正歇斯底里地哭泣。
Kerr walked into the church and found the young woman crying hysterically after learning that her spouse, a construction worker, was killed when the building came down.
科尔听了她大约半小时的抽泣，说：“不，我受不了了。我不能坐视不管，只能看着她、听着她这么歇斯底里地哭。”她说：“那一刻，我知道她需要安慰。”她和失去配偶的女子以及周围的人聚在一起，开始祈祷。
Kerr listened to the woman sobbing for about half an hour and said, “No, I can’t take this. I can’t sit back and just watch her and listen to her cry so hysterically.”“In that moment, I knew she needed comfort,” she said. She gathered with the woman who had lost her spouse and those around them, and they began to pray.
“这是毁灭性的打击，”科尔说。“这种事从未在这个社区发生过，我们只需要聚在一起，作为一个社区紧紧团结在一起。”住在大楼约一个街区外的教师凯蒂·史蒂文斯周四上午目睹第一响应者将尸袋装进货车后，痛哭流涕。
“This is devastating,” Kerr said. “Nothing like this has ever happened in this neighborhood, and we just need to come together and stay together as a community.”And Katie Stevens, a teacher who lives about a block from the building, sobbed after she watched first responders load body bags into a van Thursday morning.
“我非常在乎我的邻居，”史蒂文斯告诉CNN。“我只是太难过了。”在社区住了35年的砖瓦工詹姆斯·威廉姆斯周四站在废墟现场对面，回忆起前一天看着大楼墙壁塌陷的情景。
“I care for my neighbors so much,” Stevens told CNN. “I’m just so sad.”James Williams, a bricklayer who has lived in the neighborhood for 35 years, stood across the street from the wreckage site Thursday and recalled watching the building’s walls cave in the day before.
一个画面在他脑海中挥之不去：一名女子攀爬着一段如今暴露在外的楼梯，而她周围的一切都在崩塌。
One image reverberated in his mind: a woman climbing a now-exposed staircase as everything around her was crumbling.
“我不知道她有没有活着出来，”他哀叹道。“看到这一切却不知道她遭遇了什么……我可能得去看心理医生。”威廉姆斯说，他认识多个受坍塌事件影响的家庭。一位朋友告诉他，坍塌发生时，她正与在现场的亲属发短信联系，但至今未能在任何当地医院找到他们。
“I don’t know if she got out alive or not,” he lamented. “To see that and not know what happened to her…I might have to go see a psychiatrist.”Williams said he knows multiple families affected by the collapse. A friend told him she had been texting with relatives at the site when it collapsed but had not been able to locate them at any local hospitals.
悲痛在社区中蔓延之际，红十字会、纽约市人力资源管理局和世界中央厨房等非营利组织和机构正为受惊的家庭提供紧急住所、物资和失踪人员的相关信息。
As grief rippled through the neighborhood, nonprofits and agencies including the Red Cross, NYC Human Resources Administration and World Central Kitchen helped shaken families with emergency shelter, supplies and updates about missing people.
周四夜里，坍塌现场上空雷声隆隆、大雨倾盆，夜幕降临后，探照灯照亮了一台已经停下的挖掘机——它此前一直在将成堆的瓦砾、扭曲的金属和曾经是公寓的残骸装进垃圾车。
As darkness fell over the collapse site Thursday night, amid thunderclaps and heavy rain, floodlights shone on a now-idle backhoe that had been excavating piles of debris, twisted metal and the pieces of what had been apartments into dumpsters.
官员们周四下午表示，搜救人员完成了对废墟的马拉松式搜寻，确认已无更多幸存者可以抢救。
Crews finished a marathon search through the rubble and determined there were no more survivors to be rescued, officials had said Thursday afternoon.
人们撑着伞下班后匆匆赶回家，有些人驻足片刻，望向那片不久前还是许多人居所的空地。
Under umbrellas, people hurried home after work, some stopping momentarily to look at the now-vacant space that had recently been home to many.
马路对面，一群年长的妇女早早聚集起来，准备参加贝塞斯达神的教会晚间的礼拜仪式。
Across the street, a cluster of older women started gathering early for an evening service at Bethesda Church of God in Christ.
“这间教会恰好以海地克里奥尔语进行礼拜，但教会向整个社区开放。”弗洛伦丝·圣约翰说。她是一位心理学家，在教会提供心理健康和创伤服务。
“This church happens to be a Haitian Creole speaking church, but the church is open to the entire community,” said Florence Saint-Jean, a psychologist who offers mental health and trauma services at the church.
“住在这里的人是移民，所以当危机发生时，只有一种语言——爱。”她说。“人们很疲惫，他们在寻找食物，寻找住所，教会始终敞开大门、随时提供帮助。”邻居们相互拥抱、彼此安慰时，一个问题让他们心如刀绞：这场悲剧怎么会发生？
“The people who live here are immigrants, and so when crisis happens, there’s only one language – love,” she said. “People are tired, they’re looking for food, they’re looking for shelter, and the church is always open and available.”As neighbors hugged and comforted one another, one question created knots in their chests: How could this tragedy have happened?
纽约市楼宇局尚未确定坍塌原因，调查正在进行中，同时有关该建筑历史和施工过程的新信息不断浮现。
The Department of Buildings has not yet determined the cause of the collapse, and an investigation is underway as new information emerges about the building’s history and construction process.
纽约官员正在调查这座建于1930年的建筑坍塌的原因。马姆达尼誓言将追究任何责任人的“全部责任”，当局正在检查全市约100处与该地点有关的地点。
New York officials are looking into what caused the collapse of the building built in 1930, with Mamdani vowing to hold anyone responsible “fully accountable” and authorities inspecting about 100 locations throughout the city linked to the site.
调查人员试图确定周三布鲁克林这栋三层建筑致命坍塌的因素时，将同时审视坍塌建筑的状况以及相邻建筑工地的施工活动。
As investigators try to determine factors in Wednesday’s deadly collapse of the three-story building in Brooklyn, they’ll be looking at both the condition of the collapsed building and activity at the construction site that neighbored it.
在相邻地块施工许可审批过程中，曾有人报告该建筑外立面存在裂缝，而坍塌的建筑物正是倒向了这个相邻地块。
Cracks had been reported in the facade of the building as part of the permitting process for construction on the adjacent lot, which the collapse spilled into.
该建筑业主奥卢费米·法拉德有着令人不安的过往记录，据报道他曾在2006年被监禁12天，原因是未能修复多栋建筑中的数百项违规问题。
The building’s owner, Olufemi Falade, has a troubling history that reportedly landed him in jail for 12 days in 2006 for failing to repair hundreds of violations across multiple buildings.
根据纽约市住房保护与发展局的记录，位于弗拉特布什大道1321号的坍塌建筑目前有98项未解决的住房违规，从电线不安全、缺少烟雾探测器，到臭虫滋生以及喷淋系统供水不足，不一而足。CNN已联系法拉德寻求置评。
The collapsed building at 1321 Flatbush Avenue currently has 98 open housing violations – ranging from unsafe electrical wiring and a lack of smoke detectors to bedbug infestations and a lack of adequate water supply for the building’s sprinkler system – according to records from the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development. CNN has reached out to Falade for comment.
尽管建筑坍塌在美国较为罕见，但低收入和移民社区往往面临更高的危险和忽视风险。
Though building collapses are rare in the US, lower-income and immigrant neighborhoods often face higher risks of hazards and neglect.
住房专家和倡导者指出，系统性不平等对工薪阶层移民社区造成了不成比例的影响，包括老旧建筑、法规执行松懈和快速施工等问题。
Housing experts and advocates have pointed to systemic inequities that disproportionately impact working class immigrant communities, including old buildings, lax code enforcement and rapid construction.
纽约州租户联盟及“全民住房正义”组织的执行主任苏马蒂·库马尔表示，这位布鲁克林房东与该市有着广泛而令人不安的历史纠葛。该组织致力于组织租户维权。
Sumathy Kumar, executive director of New York State Tenant Bloc and Housing Justice for All, an organization that works to organize tenants, said the Brooklyn landlord has an extensive and troubling history with the city.
库马尔说：“我们需要更好、更快的工具来追究房东的责任，确保建筑得到妥善维护和管理。”
“We need better and faster tools to hold landlords accountable and to make sure that buildings are properly maintained and managed,” Kumar said.
圣让表示，在弗拉特布什这样的移民社区，开发方式存在明显的差别。
Saint-Jean said there is a visible distinction between how development occurs in immigrant communities like Flatbush.
她说：“我们最担心的是，当发生这样的事情时，我们关于本地区开发的声音没有被听到。”
“What we’re most concerned about is, when things like his happen, that our voice (is) not being heard about development in the area,” she said.