Two people died in flooded basements during Thursday’s intense rain and flash flooding in New York City.
A 39-year-old man was killed in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and a 43-year-old man, identified as Juan Carlos Montoya Hernandez, was found dead inside a boiler room in Washington Heights on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
Brooklyn flooding victim died trying to save his dogs, neighbors say
Neighbors on Kingston Avenue in Crown Heights say the 39-year-old man named Aaron was killed scrambling to save his dogs. He rescued one and went back inside for another, but never resurfaced.
“He went for one dog, brought one up. He went down for the next dog, and he never came back alive,” neighbor Kenneth Oates said…