(15 Jul 2025)
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Plainfield, New Jersey – 15 July 2025
1. Police tape in area where two people drowned in flooding
2. Cedar Brook Park sign
3. Area where women drowned in car and car was later towed away
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North Plainfield, New Jersey – 15 July 2025
4. Welcome to Downtown North Plainfield sign on ground
5. Man sweeping water out of Eddy’s Kitchen
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Lorena Hernandez, Eddy’s Kitchen:
“It got flooded. The water came in through the door but it really came from the bottom of the basement that’s why everything is flooded in here and all the businesses next door.”
7. Hernandez shows flooded restaurant
8. Flooded dining area of Eddy’s Kitchen
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Lorena Hernandez, Eddy’s Kitchen:
“All of our equipment is messed up, all of our fridges are gone even our walk-in cooler. Because we just remodeled like two months ago. It’s my brother’s business and mine but we are trying to make it through this and come back stronger. North Plainfield strong!”
10. KFC employee spraying away debris from front of restaurant that was flooded yesterday
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrea Gamenaz, KFC Employee:
“Yesterday we are working here and the water started to be up. The water you can see the line here. It’s flowing inside the store too. All the cars. It was terrible. My car is on the other side, I lose it, so what are you going to do? Nothing, it’s going too fast. We can’t go to anywhere.”
12. Various of flooded KFC parking lot
13. Walking shot through debris
14. Various of flooded car aftermath
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Lori Grier, North Plainfield Resident:
“We also had deaths on July 3. So this is an unusual happening for this area to have fatalities as a result of a storm.”
16. Flood damaged fuel tanks
17. Uprooted tree
18. Various of flood damaged U.S. Route 22
19. Honda dealership
20. Woman cleaning debris from parking lot of Honda dealership
STORYLINE:
Two people in New Jersey were killed after their vehicle was swept up in flood waters during a storm that moved across the U.S. Northeast overnight, authorities said Tuesday.
Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, noted the deaths occurred in the northern New Jersey city of Plainfield where there were two storm-related deaths July 3. A third person was killed in North Plainfield during that previous storm.
The names of the two latest victims were not immediately released Tuesday. Local officials said the vehicle they were riding in was swept into a brook during the height of the storm.
“Emergency personnel responded quickly, but tragically, both individuals were pronounced dead at the scene,” according to a statement the city posted online.
The heavy rains also caused flash floods in New York and south-central Pennsylvania on Monday night into early Tuesday, prompting road closures and snarling some service on the New York City subway.
Some roads remained closed in parts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey on Tuesday.
Murphy said the pavement buckled in some locations and state and local officials were assessing the level of damage in several counties, noting the White House had reached out to his office.
A major east-to-west highway in New Jersey was closed to make emergency repairs while dozens of flights were delayed or canceled at area airports Tuesday, including at least 173 total cancellations at Newark Liberty Airport, according to FlightAware data.
Most flash flood watches and warnings had expired in parts of New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania as the rain moved on.
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