Harrowing video shows inside view of moment Brooklyn building collapses, killing at least 8: report

Harrowing new footage taken from an in-home surveillance camera captured the shocking moment a Brooklyn apartment building crumpled to the ground, killing eight people and injuring 18 more.The video, exclusively obtained by Gothamist and CBS News, was taken inside resident Anderson Velez’s third-floor apartment at 1321 Flatbush Avenue, which he shares with his wife and two young children, just seconds before the building collapsed into an active construction site next door.At the start of the six-second clip, Velez’s 9-year-old son can be seen retrieving a gallon of milk from the fridge while his 2-year-old is playing on the floor.Velez’s wife then opens a door to the living room, frantically screaming, prompting the older boy to run toward his mother, away from the wall before it dramatically crumbles.“That movement, in my opinion, saved his life,” Velez told the local publication in Spanish.The toddler, however, was harrowingly swept up in the rubble after the wall caved in.Velez, who was in the Bronx for work at the time of the tragedy, said he received a frantic call from his wife as she was begging rescue workers to pull her two sons out of the pile of rubble. Miraculously, his 2-year-old only sustained scrapes to his forehead and legs after he was pulled from the pile of debris.“His ears were full of dirt, his nose, his little mouth, his back — his entire body was covered in dirt,” Velez said of his toddler. Velez said his wife sustained serious injuries to her ribs, spine and collarbone and his 9-year-old son remains in the ICU after undergoing surgery.“I am still in shock,” the now-displaced resident told Gothamist.“The truth is, I’m trying to be strong for my son, but I feel terrible.”“Everything was going through my mind.

I was thinking about my children, hoping they were OK and that nothing serious had happened to them,” he said.“God heard me because I prayed so much for their health and well-being.”Heartbreakingly, V...