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A 20-year-old woman and her two-year-old daughter drowned Saturday morning in a culvert filled with fast floods.
The first responders also found an elderly man who died around 2.30pm. After the diving teams pulled his body from his submerged vehicle near South Cravens Road and Oakdale Drive.
The authorities did not immediately identify the victims, pending notification from the next of kin.
The first drowning incident occurred around 10:00 pm in the East Loop 820 block 4900.
Fort Worth police said the car was stuck on the northbound service lane and passing vehicles were creating water waves that drove the car into the culvert.
Fire Brigade spokesman J.M. McAmis said the car was pulled into the culvert at 9:58 and that by 10:01, it was completely submerged.
He said that there was little to do to help.
"When we got here, the water was 30 feet deep and we could not go," he said.
"We could not do anything, the current was too strong," he said.
The woman and the toddler were in a four-door sedan, he said.
Family members of the victims arrived at the scene, helpless, and left early in the afternoon.
The Tarrant County Medical Examiner was on the scene around 1 pm, said McAmis.
In the second incident, firefighters were unable to locate the old man who reportedly drowned, McAmis said.
A witness called the fire department around eleven o'clock in the morning and said that a car had been washed away by high tide, but firefighters could not find the vehicle because it was covered with water. water, said McAmis.
Once firefighters removed from the water were recalled to the area around 14:30. and were able to locate the vehicle because its top was visible, said McAmis. The divers were then sent to recover the body, according to McAmis.
Rain is expected to subside on Saturday night, the National Meteorological Service said, as the weather system moves south. The sun should return to the Fort Worth area Sunday afternoon.
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