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Bricks Falling When Hit

You are given an m x n binary grid, where each 1 represents a brick and 0 represents an empty space. A brick is stable if: It is directly connected to the top of the grid, or At least one other brick in its four adjacent cells is stable. You are also given an array hits, which is a sequence of erasures we want to apply. Each time we want to erase the brick at the location hits[i] = (rowi, coli). The brick on that location (if it exists) will disappear. Some other bricks may no longer be stable because of that erasure and will fall. Once a brick falls, it is immediately erased from the grid (i.e., it does not land on other stable bricks). Return an array result, where each result[i] is the number of bricks that will fall after the ith erasure is applied.

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