"He was staying there with a few guys when the basement flooded. He went back in to save his dogs,"
"He got one out and went back to rescue the other. He was electrocuted, and then he drowned,"
"He looked like what you see in a movie. He looked like a dead body that had been fished out of the river. His body was covered in leaves. The whole basement was flooded right up to the first floor, and then 3 more feet,"
Two men died in flooded basements across the New York City metro area during record-breaking afternoon rainfall. A 39-year-old man was found unconscious in an inundated basement in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, rushed to a hospital and pronounced dead; friends identified him as Aaron Akaberi. Witnesses said he went back into the flooded basement to rescue dogs and was electrocuted and drowned; responders used a diving team to recover his body. A 43-year-old man was found dead in a flooded boiler room in Washington Heights. The storm produced record rainfall totals at Central Park and LaGuardia and prompted flash-flood warnings and strong wind gusts.
Read at New York Daily News
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]