One dead after New York car park collapses

At the least one particular person died and 5 had been rushed to hospital after a multi-storey parking storage in New York Metropolis collapsed on Tuesday, officers stated. 

Aerial video footage circulating on social media confirmed vehicles piled on high of each other in a jumble of cracked concrete within the monetary district of Decrease Manhattan. 

The constructing on Ann Road “pancaked, collapsed, all the best way to the cellar flooring,” the appearing head of New York’s buildings division, Kazimir Vilenchik, instructed a press convention on the scene. 

Its exterior remained standing, however officers stated they feared additional collapse. 

The hearth division’s chief of operations John Esposito stated they’d ordered all their preliminary responders out of the constructing – however {that a} robotics unit had been capable of deploy a robotic canine and fly drones inside to conduct searches. 

He stated they believed there had been six employees within the constructing when it collapsed. “4 of them have been transported to the hospital in steady situation. 

“We’ve got one affected person that has died,” he instructed the information convention. 

The sixth particular person refused medical therapy, he stated. Esposito stated the hearth division believed everybody had been accounted for. Officers had been calling for New Yorkers to keep away from the realm.