WINGATE, Brooklyn (WABC) – Rescue crews pulled a man to safety after a collapse at a construction site in Brooklyn Tuesday.
The incident happened on the 400 block of Rutland Road in the Wingate section just after 12:30 p.m., when the FDNY says a vacant 100-year-old building under deconstruction partially collapsed. A man described as a “non-worker civilian” was trapped under the debris, buried to his waist under the basement.
Authorities say he was scavenging for building materials when the first floor collapsed underneath him. He was trapped in the rubble, under a beam about ten feet below the surface for nearly an hour and a half.
