The Manhattan man killed in Thursday's record-setting rainstorm complained multiple times about the flood-prone basement where he died, according to a tenant. First responders found Juan Carlos Montoya Hernandez, 43, dead in the flooded boiler room at a building on West 175th Street and Broadway in Washington Heights.

Juan Carlos Montoya Hernandez died attempting to perform electrical repairs during the storm. Aaron Akaberi died trying to rescue his pit bull from a flooding apartment.

The basement is all that was left of this home gutted by a tornado in Greensburg, Kansas in 2007. Experts say the safest part of a home during a tornado is a basement. But plenty of Indiana residents don’t have one and not as many new homes are being ...

Two people died Thursday in NYC​ when flash flooding filled basements from Crown Heights, Brooklyn, to Washington Heights in Upper Manhattan.

The Omaha Fire Department’s mobile command unit, which had been set up near the scene of the fire at 11th and Howard Streets, pulled out about 4 p.m. Tuesday, officials said Wednesday. The Fire Department has handed over the building to the city’s ...