"The city has issued a vacate order to the Brooklyn building where a man died during Thursday's storm. City inspectors toured the building Friday where an FDNY SCUBA team pulled the 39-year-old man's body from the flooded basement the night before. Neighbors on Kingston Avenue in Crown Heights say the man was named Aaron and he was killed scrambling to save his dogs. He rescued one and went back inside for another, but never resurfaced."
"Officials sent out warning notifications about potential flooding Thursday, but residents say the city never dispatched crews to clear out their clogged storm drains. Neighbors stood in the rain for hours, sweeping away leaves, dirt and debris themselves, but it wasn't enough. "They know when it's going to rain or whatever, clean the drain. This is dangerous business, and somebody actually died," neighbor Sylvia Elcock-Als said. "It looked catastrophic.""
Two people died in flooded basements during intense rain and flash flooding in New York City. A 39-year-old man in Crown Heights, identified by neighbors as Aaron, died after rescuing one dog and returning to a flooded basement for a second dog; his body was recovered by an FDNY SCUBA team. A 43-year-old man, Juan Carlos Montoya Hernandez, was found dead inside a boiler room in Washington Heights. The city issued a vacate order for the Brooklyn building and inspectors reported an unusable basement door and two camping tents with personal belongings. Residents said storm drains were clogged, they cleared debris themselves, and warned crews were not dispatched.
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