Residents in central and northern Indiana battled fire and water following torrential rains overnight caused widespread flooding on Aug. 22.
Firefighters in northeastern Indiana had been reduce off from a blaze at an auto repair shop by 3 to 5 feet of water. Blackford County deputy emergency management director Gene Henderson mentioned the rural property north of Hartford City is surrounded by a creek or ditch, forcing many departments to fight the blaze from the road.
Emergency management director Aaron Henderson said the county just north of Muncie saw at least 8 inches of rain. Its college district canceled classes for the day, with Henderson citing quite a few flooded roads. Drivers were becoming asked to keep away from nonessential travel. He mentioned some properties and buildings had been flooded.
“We’re seeing water standing in areas we’ve never observed water stand before,” he said. “There’s just nowhere for it to go.”
An region amongst Fort Wayne and Muncie saw the biggest rain totals, according to the National Climate Service, which issued flash flood warnings for a number of counties. Runoff from the rain could lead to flash flooding through midday, the weather service said.
State police temporarily closed a swamped section of Interstate 69 in both directions close to Marion, but it reopened by late morning, Indiana State Police Sgt. Ron Galaviz mentioned. No stranded motorists or injuries were reported, he mentioned.
And a Madison County Sheriff’s Division auto flipped more than on I-69 in Grant County, but the deputy had minor injuries and wasn’t taken to the hospital, a sheriff’s dispatcher mentioned.
“Mother Nature’s in charge of this thing, like it or not,” Galaviz mentioned.
In northwest Indiana, fire officials utilized boats to rescue 18 people when floodwaters surrounded their homes.
Sgt. Larry LaFlower of the Porter County Sheriff’s Department mentioned rain-swollen Salt Creek had trapped 4 households in their residences in an older neighborhood in South Haven, 15 miles east of Gary, that is prone to flooding.
“The complete stream was flooded so there was no way they were going to be in a position to get out to the street and get away from the floodwaters,” he said.
A Grant County dispatcher mentioned deputies rescued a handful of stranded motorists overnight. Streets had been also flooded in Muncie.
The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings Friday morning for Grant, Blackford, Jay and sections of nearby Wabash, Huntington and Wells counties in central and northeastern Indiana. The weather service stated 6 to 10 inches of rain had fallen in eastern Grant and Blackford counties, with up to 6 inches falling given that midnight.
Associated Press writers Tom Davies and Rick Callahan in Indianapolis contributed to this report.
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Torrential Rains Bring Floods, Fires to Indiana
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