10-Year-Old Boy Dead, 2 Adults Missing After Getting Swept Into Drainage Ditch Following Milwaukee Storms

The body of a 10-year-old boy has been recovered while two adult men remain missing after they were swept into a Milwaukee drainage ditch following severe storms in the area, according to officials.

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“It was swift water,” Assistant Milwaukee Fire Chief DeWayne Smoots said, reported the outlet. “If anybody knows about rapids, the water is fast. You can’t control your surroundings, makes it unsafe for anyone to venture in to do any search whatsoever because the water was moving so fast.”

The pace at which the water was rushing gave rescuers “no opportunity to conduct some sort of rescue” operation Monday evening, Lipski explained. Any such effort, he added, would have likely resulted in injury or death.

Instead, officials used a drone for their initial search. Crews eventually made their way into the tunnel, but found nothing.

On Tuesday, the recovery operation shifted to the area between 31st and Kinnickinnic Parkway and 30th and Euclid, where another pair of tunnels is located, Lipski said at asecond news conferencethat day.

Crews will also search those tunnels, which Lipski said measure in at 1,900 ft., in hopes of finding the missing people.

source: people.com