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Building collapse in Brooklyn kills at least one, injures 10

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NEW YORK, Nov ‌11 (Reuters) - The collapse of a three-story apartment ​building in Brooklyn killed at least one person and injured at ⁠least 10 others on Wednesday, the New York City Fire Department said.

Dozens of firefighters and a search dog could ​be seen combing through the rubble, removing debris by the ‌bucketful, at the four-unit building built in 1930. Drone footage from local television station WABC showed a stove, a toilet ⁠and a door amid debris that had fallen into ⁠a pit at an adjacent construction site. Construction workers were among the injured, according to local media reports.

Two and a half hours after the collapse, a person was ‌pulled alive from the rubble, put on a stretcher and ⁠taken away in an ambulance, WABC ‌footage showed.

"I'm very happy, I'm very ​happy," a man who believed the person was his six-month-pregnant wife told a WABC reporter.

Later, as flashlight beams bounced ‌off strips of reflective tape on ​rescuers' dark coats, another ⁠person could be seen being pulled alive from ‌the rubble. 

The Fire Department said ⁠it received a call about the full collapse of a building just after 4 p.m. Eastern time (2100 GMT) on ​Wednesday.

The Fire Department had ‌said four people were critically injured and six more ⁠sustained minor injuries before two ​people were rescued.

(Reporting by Maria Tsvetkova; editing by Donna ​Bryson and Chris Reese)

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