NEW YORK CITY (WABC) — Two people have died in flooded basements in New York City on Thursday after heavy storms moved through the area, police said.
A 39-year-old man was found unconscious and unresponsive in a flooded basement in Brooklyn, police said.
The FDNY Scuba Team recovered his body from the basement and the man was taken to Kings County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
Neighbors told Eyewitness News that the man lived in the basement and went back in to save one of his two dogs and was not able to get out.
In a separate incident in Washington Heights, a 43-year-old man was found unconscious and unresponsive in a flooded boiler room, police said.
NYPD ESU removed the man from the boiler room and EMS pronounced him dead on the scene, police said.
Police are investigating both incidents.
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