This picture supplied by the Fire Department of New York, FDNY, reveals half of a high-rise apartment building that collapsed, leaving a nook of the building in a pile of rubble, in New York, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025.
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Part of a high-rise apartment building in New York City collapsed on Wednesday (October 1, 2025) morning, leaving a nook of the building a pile of rubble.
The metropolis’s fireplace division mentioned it had no instant reviews of injuries. It mentioned it was responding to a report of a gasoline explosion that collapsed an incinerator shaft in the 20-story building in the Bronx.
Video from the scene reveals a high-rise with one nook collapsed from the bottom flooring to the roof. Videos by close by residents confirmed a cloud of mud billowing over the block moments after the collapse, which occurred round 8:10 am.
The building is city-owned public housing.
Incinerator shafts in New York City buildings have been as soon as used to dispose of trash, which was then burned on website. But they’ve largely been changed with trash compactors, which might use the identical chutes.
Published – October 01, 2025 07:14 pm IST