Milwaukee Fire Chief Aaron Lipsky said Tuesday afternoon that the child, identified only as a 10-year-old boy, was found in a nearby river. The child would be 11 years old on July 4th. His family has been notified and the search for the other missing victims continues. “It is clear to everyone here 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 grief and privacy.” Witnesses told police that around 6:30 p.m. on Monday, the boy fell into the ditch, which carries water through a tunnel on the Kinnickinnic River. According to police, two men, aged 34 and 37, entered the water in an attempt to save the boy, but all three were abducted. “In that tunnel, we have no idea what was going on in that tunnel,” said DeWayne Smoots, assistant fire chief. Divers are looking for an 11-year-old boy and two men from Milwaukee who were dragged into a sewer tunnel near the 27th and Loomis after heavy rain on Monday. The search has now been suspended until daylight. MORE HERE: pic.twitter.com/x2X8bfnINB – CBS 58 News (@ CBS58) June 14, 2022 The crews did not enter the tunnel due to dangerous conditions and instead sent a drone in an attempt to locate them, officials said. The names of the missing were not immediately released. Police said the three knew each other, but gave no further details. Family members told WDJT that a boy was playing ball with his father when his son somehow fell into the water and his father chased him. The family told the station that another adult family member also jumped. The water was deep and fast after Monday’s heavy thunderstorms, which also caused damage and power outages in Illinois, Indiana and Michigan. And the storms continued to hit as they reached West Virginia early Tuesday, where many roads were closed by fallen trees and power lines. The storms came as high temperatures and humidity flooded states that stretch from parts of the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes and east to the Carolina. More than 100 million people experienced a combination of heat warnings, overheating and overheating warnings until Wednesday following record weekend temperatures in parts of the West and Southwest. In Odessa, Texas, where temperatures reached 100 degrees Fahrenheit on Tuesday, a power outage disrupted services to 165,000 residents and caused a devastation in the city, Governor Greg Abbott said. Officials said it may take until Wednesday for the service to be restored. In Illinois, a thunderstorm with winds of more than 80 miles per hour tore down trees and damaged power lines Monday night, leaving traces of damage in the Chicago area and northwest Indiana, the National Weather Service said. Tens of thousands were left without electricity. Numerous reports of wind damage were reported along the storm route, with Chicago O’Hare International Airport recording a gust of 84 mph, the Meteorological Agency said. Crews were planning to assess the damage from Tuesday’s storm to determine if tornadoes had fallen. In Bellwood on the western outskirts of Chicago, village officials said the winds stripped the roof of an apartment building, injuring a young woman who was hospitalized after being hit by debris but was expected to be well. “Once we heard people screaming that the roof was closed, get out, get out,” Larhonda Neal told WLS-TV. In northwest Indiana, the Meteorological Agency reported storm damage in the Ogden Dunes and said 1.5-inch hailstorm hit Lake County, New Chicago on Monday night. In northeastern Indiana, the Meteorological Agency said a gust of 98 miles per hour was recorded at Fort Wayne International Airport, the strongest wind ever recorded at the airport, overshadowing a previous record of 91 mph recorded on June 30, 2012. Thunderstorms and downed trees were reported in Fort Wayne, where winds shattered the sides and insulation of the shed of SkyWest, an aircraft maintenance company southwest of the Fort Wayne terminal and runways, exposing the planes. . In a tweet on Tuesday, the airport said: “While there is a lot of damage, all staff are safe and no injuries were reported.” INFORMATION UPDATE FOR SERIOUS WEATHER The FWA was hit hard by last night’s storms, with a number of airport-related facilities and the airport suffering varying degrees of damage. While there is a lot of damage, all staff are safe and no injuries were reported. (To be continued…) – Fort Wayne Airport (@flyfwa) June 14, 2022
