Unfortunately, the other individual could not be located. One victim was saved by the heroic action of all emergency personnel on scene downstream in Piscataway. Emergency personnel were able to determine two males were swept into the pipe that travels under Stelton Road from South Plainfield to Piscataway. South Plainfield and Piscataway Police, along with members of the Middlesex County Water Rescue Team, arrived on scene. While on scene, they heard cries of help from a female pedestrian about a friend being swept into a 36-inch storm sewer pipe, South Plainfield Mayor Matthew Anesh said in a statement Thursday. On Wednesday night, South Plainfield Police were assisting motorists in the area of Hadley Road and Stelton Road. One car had flipped on its roof, another almost slid into the brook and was stuck on the bank and another car ended up on top of another car.ĭemolition had begun Thursday afternoon on a building next to Manion's on West Main Street that suffered a partial collapse on Wednesday evening.Ĭars had also become trapped in the South Bridge Street and West Somerset Street underpasses under the NJ Transit tracks. Some of the cars were still in the middle of Mercer Street on Thursday morning.
Cars in the Brookside Gardens apartment complex were carried away in the flash flood, a replay of the damage during Doria and Floyd. The usually placid brook which runs through the heart of the county seat became a raging torrent Wednesday night.
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