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Vacant Warehouse Collapses In Sunset Park, Brooklyn

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- No one was injured when a vacant warehouse collapsed in Sunset Park, Brooklyn Wednesday evening.

The vacant one-story warehouse at 42nd Street and First Avenue in Brooklyn, near Bush Terminal Park, collapsed around 9 p.m., the FDNY told CBS2.

Sunset Park, Warehouse Collapse
A warehouse collapsed in Sunset Park, Brooklyn on Wednesday, June 1, 2016. (Credit: @NYPDNews)
Sunset Park, Warehouse Collapse
A warehouse collapsed in Sunset Park, Brooklyn on Wednesday, June 1, 2016. (Credit: @NYPDNews)
Sunset Park, Warehouse Collapse
A warehouse collapsed in Sunset Park, Brooklyn on Wednesday, June 1, 2016. (Credit: @NYPDNews)
Sunset Park, Warehouse Collapse
A warehouse collapsed in Sunset Park, Brooklyn on Wednesday, June 1, 2016. (Credit: @NYPDNews)
Sunset Park, Warehouse Collapse
A warehouse collapsed in Sunset Park, Brooklyn on Wednesday, June 1, 2016. (Credit: @NYPDNews)
Sunset Park, Warehouse Collapse
A warehouse collapsed in Sunset Park, Brooklyn on Wednesday, June 1, 2016. (Credit: @NYPDNews)
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A warehouse collapsed in Sunset Park, Brooklyn on Wednesday, June 1, 2016. (Credit: @NYPDNews)
Sunset Park, Warehouse Collapse
A warehouse collapsed in Sunset Park, Brooklyn on Wednesday, June 1, 2016. (Credit: @NYPDNews)

The warehouse was vacant at the time of the collapse, and there was no fire, according to Sgt. Carlos Nieves of the NYPD Office of the Deputy Commissioner for Public Information.

The FDNY searched the rubble as a precaution, but there were no injuries, Nieves reported on Twitter.

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