Three people were killed and four others were missing after a sudden deluge of rain flooded a Pennsylvania road Saturday night, sweeping away vehicles and setting off a search for survivors as the Northeast grappled with simultaneous weather hazards.
A baby and a toddler are among those unaccounted for in the aftermath of the storm that hit Bucks County, officials said during a Sunday news conference. They described water rising swiftly and violently in a scene that stunned veteran rescue workers.
“We are treating this as a rescue,” said Tim Brewer, fire chief of Upper Makefield Township, “but we are fairly certain we are in a recovery mode.” During a brief update later Sunday, he said the three missing were a 9-month-old boy, a 2-year-old girl and a woman from the same family. He declined to release their names.The deadly flash flooding in Washington Crossing, a township north of Philadelphia and near the border with New Jersey, followed more than a week of flooding and thunderstorms in the state and the wider Northeast, with Vermont and New York’s Hudson Valley hit particularly hard.
Another Pennsylvania county, Berks, was deluged by flooding last weekend, displacing dozens of residents,Saturday’s storm dumped about 7 inches of rain within 45 minutes, Brewer said, taking drivers by surprise.Firefighters who were on another call witnessed three cars being carried away by the onslaught. Brewer said he had “never seen anything like it.”
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