Ida’s remnants killed at least 28 people late Wednesday and early Thursday in a record-setting downpour that stunned the U.S. Officials did not release the sergeant’s name, saying family notifications were still pending. Police searched the area with divers, helicopters, boats and drones and found the sergeant in the swollen river later in the morning after daybreak.įirst responders performed live-saving measures and he was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The 26-year veteran of the department called for help at about 3:30 a.m. An on-duty state police sergeant in Connecticut has died after his cruiser was swept away in flood waters early Thursday morning in Woodbury. The service said wind speeds ranged from 75 mph (121 kph) to 130 mph (209 kph). The National Weather Service in Mount Holly, New Jersey, has confirmed six tornadoes in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.Īfter conducting surveys of the damage, the federal agency said there were tornadoes Wednesday in Mullica Hill, New Jersey Princeton, New Jersey Oxford, Pennsylvania Fort Washington and Horsham Township, Pennsylvania Buckingham Township, Pennsylvania and Edgewater Park, New Jersey, and Bristol, Pennsylvania. Latimer said more than 200 cars remain abandoned on roadways. Authorities located his submerged vehicle nearby on an entrance ramp to the Saw Mill River Parkway.
He had called family members to say he having difficulty in the storm driving from Rockland County. NEW YORK - The remnants of Hurricane Ida have killed three people in suburban New York City, officials confirmed Thursday, as the death toll from the record-setting downpour continued to rise.Īt least one of the victims was a motorist caught on the road in rapidly rising water in Westchester County, said George Latimer, the county executive.Īuthorities recovered the body of Samuel Weissmandl, 69, of Mount Kisco, near Route 119 in Elmsford. He said the state has decided not to provide a breakdown of the deaths by municipality at this time. Murphy said most of the deaths in his state were people who got caught in their vehicles by flooding and overtaken by water. At least 45 people were killed from Maryland to Connecticut. Northeast reckoned Thursday with flooding, tornado damage, and continuing calls for rescue after the storm took residents and officials by surprise. Murphy spoke as his states and others in the U.S. Phil Murphy says his state’s death toll from the remnants of Hurricane Ida has risen to 23. Biden to survey Ida’s storm damage in Louisiana on Friday Four days after Hurricane Ida struck Louisiana, many are still without water, power
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