
Video taken inside apartment shows moment Brooklyn building collapsed
New video from inside an apartment shows the moment a Brooklyn building collapsed on Wednesday.
Anderson Velez shared the video with Allen Devlin of CBS News New York.
Velez said he was not home when the collapse happened, but his family was.
The video shows a 9-year-old boy in the living room of an apartment while a 2-year-old boy sits on the floor nearby.
The 9-year-old suddenly begins screaming and running away from the camera, and the children’s mother can be seen appearing in a doorway as the 9-year-old runs out of the room.
Then the walls of the living room start to collapse.
Velez told Devlin that his wife and two children were saved. His wife and 9-year-old son are hospitalized and his 2-year-old son was not injured.
A GoFundMe has been set up to help the family.
The three-story mixed-use building on Flatbush Avenue collapsed Wednesday shortly after 4 p.m. At least eight people, including two children, were killed and more than a dozen others were injured, according to the FDNY.
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