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Firefighter drowns in Ohio storm trying to rescue teens from flash flood

The Associated Press
via CBSNews.com

Crews were fanning out across Ohio early Friday to assess damage from a series of storms that flipped airplanes, toppled tractor-trailers and killed a firefighter who tried to rescue two teens from a flash flood.

The slow-moving systems had mostly settled, but they left at least 155,000 people without power late Thursday, and flood and storm watches remained in effect for most of the state.

Near the village of Wellington, about 40 miles southwest of Cleveland, Al Anderson Jr., 47, drowned as he tried to reach the teens, whose Jeep had gotten stuck, authorities said. The teens were rescued by boat.

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