Residents in central and northern Indiana battled fire and water soon after torrential rains overnight caused widespread flooding on Aug. 22.
Firefighters in northeastern Indiana were 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 several departments to fight the blaze from the road.
Emergency management director Aaron Henderson stated the county just north of Muncie saw at least 8 inches of rain. Its school district canceled classes for the day, with Henderson citing several flooded roads. Drivers were becoming asked to keep away from nonessential travel. He said some homes and buildings had been flooded.
“We’re seeing water standing in areas we’ve never ever noticed water stand ahead of,” he said. “There’s just nowhere for it to go.”
An location between Fort Wayne and Muncie saw the biggest rain totals, according to the National Climate Service, which issued flash flood warnings for many counties. Runoff from the rain could result in flash flooding via midday, the climate service said.
State police temporarily closed a swamped section of Interstate 69 in both directions near Marion, but it reopened by late morning, Indiana State Police Sgt. Ron Galaviz mentioned. No stranded motorists or injuries have been reported, he said.
And a Madison County Sheriff’s Division auto flipped over on I-69 in Grant County, but the deputy had minor injuries and wasn’t taken to the hospital, a sheriff’s dispatcher said.
“Mother Nature’s in charge of this factor, like it or not,” Galaviz stated.
In northwest Indiana, fire officials used boats to rescue 18 people when floodwaters surrounded their houses.
Sgt. Larry LaFlower of the Porter County Sheriff’s Division mentioned rain-swollen Salt Creek had trapped 4 families in their properties in an older neighborhood in South Haven, 15 miles east of Gary, that is prone to flooding.
“The whole stream was flooded so there was no way they had been going to be capable to get out to the street and get away from the floodwaters,” he stated.
A Grant County dispatcher said deputies rescued a few stranded motorists overnight. Streets had been also flooded in Muncie.
The National Climate 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.
Linked 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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