Montgomery County Fire Department spokesman Pete Piringer said officials responded to 150 calls for service between 12:45 p.m. and 3:45 p.m., including “a couple dozen” water rescues. Vito Maggiolo, a spokesman for the D.C. fire department, said firefighters responded to dozens of water rescue calls. As the weather deteriorated, the D.C. fire department established a command center so all water rescue calls could be funneled through one official. Maggiolo said the number of calls for water rescues was “too numerous to count,” and that didn’t include calls for flooded basements and other water-related incidents. ADAD“Please be safe and do not drive through standing water,” D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) tweeted at the height of the storm.

Source: Washington Post September 10, 2020 21:53 UTC