Two-mental-health-patients-drown-in-hurricacane Florence flooding🕯️🕯️

[irisblue]

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/407376-two-mental-health-patients-drown-in-hurricane-florence-flooding?amp&__twitter_impression=true

From the article.
Two female mental health patients drowned in the back of a sheriff's van when the vehicle was overcome with floodwaters, according to authorities.

snip...ABC News also reported that the deputies, who were transporting the two women to another facility in South Carolina, were saved after rescue teams arrived in time to save them.

The two deputies transporting the women attempted to pull them to safety, according to Thompson's statement, but could not open the doors to reach them, given how rapidly the water rose



The two women, being shackled in the car, could not extricate themselves.





A bit more at article

[irisblue]

1. More from the NYT

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/us/florence-deaths-south-carolina-van.html#click=https://t.co/8NclRG9ifz
More at article
snip.."As of late Tuesday night, the bodies had not been recovered or identified.

“It’s so rough over there with the high current, and dark, that we’d figured it would be safer to do the retrieval in the morning,” Mr. Richardson said."

[soryang]

2. Serve and protect

res ipsa loquitur

[marble falls]

3. Caveat emptor.

[irisblue]

4. The womens names have been released

https://wpde.com/news/local/two-inmates-killed-after-jail-transport-van-drives-through-flood-waters-sources-say
snip..."

According to the Marion County Coroner, the deceased individuals are Windy Newton, 45, of Shallotte, NC and Nicolette Green, 43, of Myrtle Beach. The incident took place in Marion County."

snip..."
As I mentioned, we have as many questions, this is the very reason SLED and internal agencies are established. The officers involved in the incident are placed on administrative leave."

Skimpy article has more

[demmiblue]

5. How horrific!