At least two people have died in separate basement flooding incidents in New York City Thursday as record-setting rain inundated the region.
Police responded to reports in the afternoon of a 39-year-old man trapped inside a flooded basement in Flatbush, Brooklyn, a New York Police Department spokesperson told The Independent. The fire department’s scuba team worked to rescue the man, but he was later pronounced dead at a local hospital, according to the police department.
