Family recalls rescue of teenage girls trapped in home during flash flood

  • Flash flooding hits southeast Wisconsin; state of emergency declared for Milwaukee Co.

WAUWATOSA, Wis. (CBS 58) — Firefighters along with wardens from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) needed a boat to rescue trapped people Sunday morning, Aug. 10, in a Wauwatosa subdivision.

A number of homes along Menomonee River Parkway were partially submerged overnight as a historic rainstorm-soaked southeast Wisconsin Saturday night and into Sunday.

Brian Baxter said he and his wife were on a weekend getaway in Elkhart Lake when their two teenage daughters called in the middle of the night…

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