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Brookyln building collapse: construction worker’s family comes forward

In a time of mourning, the family of one construction worker who was killed during the collapse speaks outA few days after the Brooklyn building collapse, and took the lives of many, one construction worker’s family has stepped forward.The young man named Gabriel Siguencia,…

Brookyln building collapse: construction worker’s family comes forward
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In a time of mourning, the family of one construction worker who was killed during the collapse speaks outA few days after the Brooklyn building collapse, and took the lives of many, one construction worker’s family has stepped forward.The young man named Gabriel Siguencia,…

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He was always smiling.

He had so much love to give.

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He had many years of life still ahead of him.”The father also added, “he was working to save up money, to get married, have his child baptized, and bring them here because he didn’t want them to go through the same process he went through when I came here.

He didn’t want to leave his son behind or have him end up alone, so that’s why he was working.”He also took a trip down memory lane, and recounted his very last conversation with his son, and it happened just a day before because he was feeling unwell.“He said to me, ‘Dad, take care of yourself — go home and rest.

Don’t work tomorrow, you need to look after your health,’” the devastated father recalled.Then, he “gave me a hug and a kiss on the cheek and said, ‘Dad, I love you.

Go home and rest.

Do you want me to take you?

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Are you sure you can drive?'” he added.

Luis also remembered saying to him, “Yes, son, I’m fine. – those are the last words I remember from him.”It is also important to mention that his family is still confused by his presence at the site.

According to the New York Post, Siguencia was at a neighboring construction site at 2625 Bedford Avenue but according to his stepsister “They weren’t supposed to be working on that building.

It looks like that building had a lot of violations.

We’re very confused as to why the construction was ongoing.” A few days after the Brooklyn building collapse, and took the lives of many, one construction worker’s family has stepped forward.

The young man named Gabriel Siguencia, 22, was a father to a…

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