One child has died and two adults have been missing after being dragged into a drainage ditch in Milwaukee after heavy storms caused heavy rains and damaging winds over much of the Midwest and parts of the South, authorities said.
Milwaukee Fire Department chief Aaron Lipski said Tuesday afternoon that the boy, identified only as a 10-year-old boy, was found in a nearby river. The boy is said to have turned 11 on July 4th. Her family has been alerted and the search for the other missing victims continues.
“Everyone here clearly understands that this is a horrible day,” Lipksi said. “But it will never be as horrible as it is for the family you see there. I ask you to respect their pain and their privacy.”
Witnesses told police that around 6:30 a.m. Monday, the boy fell into the ditch, which carries water through a tunnel to the Kinnickinnic River. According to police, two men, aged 34 and 37, entered the water to try to rescue the boy, but all three were swept away.
“In this tunnel, we have no idea what was going on in this tunnel,” said firefighter assistant DeWayne Smoots.
Divers have been searching for an 11-year-old boy and two Milwaukee men who were dragged into a drainage tunnel near 27th and Loomis after heavy rains Monday. The search has now been suspended until daylight. MORE HERE: pic.twitter.com/x2X8bfnINB
– CBS 58 News (@ CBS58) June 14, 2022
Crews did not enter the tunnel due to the dangerous conditions and instead sent a drone inside to try to locate them, officials said. The names of the missing were not immediately released. Police said all three knew each other, but gave no further details.
Family members told WDJT that a child was playing ball with his father when the son somehow ended up in the water and the father came in behind him. The family told the station that another adult family member also jumped.
The water was deep and flowing fast after Monday’s heavy storms, which also caused damage and power outages in Illinois, Indiana and Michigan. And the storms continued to punch as they reached West Virginia early Tuesday, where numerous roads were closed by downed trees and power lines.
The storms came as high temperatures and humidity settled in states that stretched across parts of the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes and east to the Carolinas. More than 100 million people were facing a combination of heat warnings, excessive heat warnings and excessive heat monitoring until Wednesday after record weekend temperatures in parts of the west and southwest.
In Odessa, Texas, where temperatures reached 100 degrees Fahrenheit on Tuesday, a break in the water network has affected service to 165,000 residents and caused a declaration of disaster in the city, Gov. Greg Abbott said. Officials said it could take until Wednesday to restore service.
In Illinois, a supercell storm with winds in excess of 80 mph felled trees and damaged power lines Monday evening, leaving a trail of damage in the Chicago area and northwest Indiana. say the National Meteorological Service. Tens of thousands were without electricity.
Numerous reports of wind damage were reported along the storm’s path, and Chicago O’Hare International Airport reported an 84 mph gust of wind, the weather service said. Teams were scheduled to assess storm damage Tuesday to determine if there were tornadoes.
In Bellwood, in the western suburbs of Chicago, village officials said winds blew off the roof of an apartment building and injured a young woman who was hospitalized after being hit by a fall. ruins but that was expected to be fine.
“We just heard people screaming that the roof was off, go out, go out,” Larhonda Neal, a resident of WLS-TV, said.
In northwest Indiana, the weather service reported storm damage to Ogden Dunes and said a 1.5-inch-diameter hailstorm hit the city of Lake County, New Chicago, Monday night.
In Northeast Indiana, the weather service said a 98 mph wind gust was recorded at Fort Wayne International Airport, the strongest wind the airport has ever seen, overshadowing the previous record of A 91 mph gust was recorded on June 30, 2012. Extensive storm damage and fallen trees were reported in Fort Wayne, where winds tore the shingles and insulation of the SkyWest hangar, a company aircraft maintenance southwest of the terminal and runways at Fort Wayne Airport, exposing the aircraft inside, WANE-TV reported.
In a tweet on Tuesday, the airport said: “Although there is a lot of damage, all staff are safe and no injuries have been reported.”
SEVERE WEATHER UPDATE
The FWA suffered a major impact from last night’s storms with a number of airport and airport-related facilities that suffered varying degrees of damage. Although there is a lot of damage, all staff are safe and no injuries have been reported. (continued …)
– Fort Wayne Airport (@flyfwa) June 14, 2022
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