NYC Floods BREAKING: Mayor Zohran Mamdani rushes to mobilise emergency forces as torrential rains batter New York City and trigger widespread chaos.
Dramatic videos of flooded streets, stranded vehicles, and overwhelmed subway systems are going viral as the NYC floods crisis intensifies across the city.
A dangerous wave of NYC floods has slammed New York after relentless rainstorms flooded roads, disrupted transportation, and forced emergency crews into action. Mayor Zohran Mamdani has reportedly rushed to mobilise forces across multiple boroughs as heavy rains continue to batter New York City. Viral footage emerging from the NYC floods shows vehicles submerged, commuters trapped, and neighborhoods struggling under rapidly rising water levels as officials warn residents to stay alert.
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Dramatic videos of flooded streets, stranded vehicles, and overwhelmed subway systems are going viral as the NYC floods crisis intensifies across the city.
A dangerous wave of NYC floods has slammed New York after relentless rainstorms flooded roads, disrupted transportation, and forced emergency crews into action. Mayor Zohran Mamdani has reportedly rushed to mobilise forces across multiple boroughs as heavy rains continue to batter New York City. Viral footage emerging from the NYC floods shows vehicles submerged, commuters trapped, and neighborhoods struggling under rapidly rising water levels as officials warn residents to stay alert.
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00:00Good afternoon, everyone.
00:02Before I begin, I want to first thank Fire Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore for her leadership of this department.
00:09It is a pleasure to be back here at FDNY headquarters as we mark an extraordinary act of heroism.
00:17Earlier this week, severe thunderstorms ripped through New York City.
00:21The downpour filled our sewer systems.
00:24And flash flooding in Brooklyn and Queens left residents stranded and vehicles submerged in water.
00:31This storm hit our city fast.
00:35Two inches of rain fell in less than an hour.
00:39Not every New Yorker was able to get shelter.
00:42One of those New Yorkers was Carmen Pinto, the principal of PS81 Thaddeus Stevens Elementary School in Bed-Stuy,
00:50whose car was trapped on the Jackie Robinson Parkway.
00:54Very quickly, the water started to rise.
00:57And very quickly, it began to fill her car.
01:01Carmen was running out of room to breathe.
01:04She tried everything.
01:06She tried to open up her car doors.
01:09She tried to bring down her windows.
01:10She tried calling 911.
01:11Nothing was working fast enough.
01:14By the time Travis Langan climbed atop her car, her face was pressed to the sunroof glass.
01:22Travis was off duty, but I know that I am here at a headquarters of so many New Yorkers for
01:28whom that term does not mean much.
01:30A room full of people whose commitment to this city is not measured by hours in a day, but frankly,
01:37by a lifetime of service.
01:38Travis didn't hesitate.
01:40He punched the sunroof with his bare fist, made a hole, and pulled Carmen from the flooding car and to
01:47safety.
01:48Carmen is with us today, safe and dry in her favorite Jalen Brunson t-shirt.
01:54So, too, is Travis, whose wife is nine months pregnant and due any day now with their third child.
02:00It is an honor to reunite Travis and Carmen for the first time since Travis broke open that sunroof.
02:07Let's please give them a huge round of applause.
02:37Thank you very much.
02:40Because of his bravery, Mrs. Pinto will sit down to dinner with her family this evening.
02:46This kind of courage may be extraordinary for most, but it is frankly ordinary for the FDNY.
02:53Every day, members of the FDNY show that same courage across the five boroughs in ways that are so often
02:59unseen and unrecognized.
03:01None of you do this work for the acclaim.
03:04You do it because you love our city.
03:06You love the people who call it home.
03:09And because you have devoted yourselves to lives of service.
03:13Thanks to that service, fires are extinguished.
03:16The injured receive care.
03:18And our city is made safer each and every day.
03:21And thanks to that service, a school still has its principal.
03:26Three children still have their mother.
03:28Four grandchildren still have their grandmother.
03:30A community still has its light.
03:31And the New York Knicks still has one of their biggest fans.
03:35So thank you to each of you in this room for answering the call every day when you're on duty
03:43and when you're off duty.
03:45And thank you once again to Travis for showing that even the strongest sunroof,
03:51under the most intense amount of rainfall, is still no match for the strength and the service of the FDNY.
03:58Thank you again, Travis.
04:04I will now pass it over to our next speaker.
04:08That would be me.
04:11Fire Commissioner Lillian Bonsignor, here to show our gratitude to this act of heroism.
04:20Travis was incredibly brave, saving Carmen's life in that one moment when she needed it the most.
04:27First, as the Fire Commissioner, I have the unique opportunity to be surrounded by thousands of Travises every single day.
04:37It is what they do.
04:39It is what's in their heart.
04:40It's what's in their soul.
04:42It's not about the uniform that they put on.
04:44They don't need it to be activated.
04:47They just need somebody who needs help and to be in the right place to give that help.
04:53We're so very proud of Travis, as we are of all of our first responders.
04:58Whether you're sitting and working out of a fire truck or an ambulance,
05:02these are people that are here to save your lives, here to help you at your worst moments.
05:08And we take that with pride.
05:10And we will do that for the rest of our days because it is who we are, not just what
05:15we do.
05:16So we're so very proud of you.
05:18Thank you so much for being such a great example.
05:25Travis, please.
05:27Oh.
05:28Hi, I'm Travis Langen.
05:30I work in Ladder 1, 2, 3 in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
05:36It was a crazy night.
05:39I left work a little late.
05:42Flash floods came down.
05:44I'd never seen rain that hard.
05:46I actually got on the phone with my father when I was on the Jackie Robinson.
05:50And I'm like, Dad, man, I've never seen anything like this.
05:54And as I'm coming to the end, everybody started pushing me to the westbound exit to go westbound on the
06:03Grand Central.
06:05And I looked over, and there was six cars just basically submerged underwater.
06:11And I saw people getting out on the roofs.
06:15And I said, Dad, I've got to give you a call back.
06:17I got out.
06:19I didn't grab anything.
06:20I just walked.
06:22I was going to say, you know, everybody get in the water.
06:25We've got to get to dry land.
06:27And I asked if anybody was trapped in their car.
06:30And they told me that she was.
06:32And so I asked if anybody had anything to hit the window with.
06:39And everybody said that everything's, you know, pretty much underwater.
06:43So I hopped on her roof, and I saw her face pressed up against the sunroof.
06:47And I just started punching my way through.
06:52And I got a big enough hole, and she actually handed me this Yeti cup.
06:59And I just started way on the way at the sunroof with the Yeti cup.
07:04And I started ripping the glass, and I'm able to get her head through.
07:08And I'm just very grateful that she came out alive.
07:21Good afternoon.
07:22Yes, I am short.
07:26Today, I am so happy and so blessed that I was sent an angel.
07:35Travis never thought of himself.
07:39He could have just driven home to his pregnant wife and his beautiful daughters.
07:46But he stopped, and he saw a situation, and he saw a way that he could help.
07:56And he didn't turn around to see if somebody else was going to step in.
08:00He just selflessly came and saw that I was about to be, I was about to drown in a trapped
08:10vehicle.
08:11And without thinking of his own well-being, he punched a hole in my roof and rescued me.
08:22And today, I get to see the Knicks yet one more time.
08:29I get to go back to my school community in Bed-Stuy, District 16, doing the heavy lifting.
08:41And I got to meet my favorite mayor.
08:44We finally have, I'm a history teacher at heart, always will be, so love my mayor.
08:50But more importantly, I think what we see here is that this is going to be a story that Travis's
08:57children are going to hear about the character of the man that is Travis.
09:02And I think it speaks to the fiber of the FDNY family, that you go into burning buildings, you go
09:14into the most dangerous situations, looking at how you can save a stranger.
09:22And I think that that is the beauty of living and working in a city like New York, that we
09:30have real superheroes.
09:33And coming from Queens, I'm proud that Spider-Man is from Queens.
09:38But now he's got competition with Travis.
09:42We have a real hero in town.
09:45Thank you, Travis, for saving my life.
09:52Any day.
09:58Yes, absolutely.
10:01Of course, thanks.
10:04You have to Nikki.
10:07Still trying to get to Nikki.
10:18Yes.
10:25I mean, it was it was all bloodied up.
10:29You know, I was just kept I was punching until I got a big enough hole.
10:34I you know, I there was the only thing I could do.
10:37I just didn't want her.
10:39That was I didn't want her to drown.
10:42You know,
10:49I honestly I just was I I didn't want her to drown and I what was going on is like
10:56I just got to get through this this glass no matter what it takes.
11:05For my well-being.
11:06No, no, not at all.
11:09Yes.
11:15It's not as bad as it looks better today than it did.
11:20The original pictures were much worse.
11:23Anyone else?
11:24Is there any communication between each other?
11:29I know this is a quick process, but was there any kind of communication?
11:32Between me and?
11:33Yes.
11:33No.
11:34No.
11:35So like, I mean, well, when I got the hole, when I punched the hole through the window, I said,
11:40calm down, ma'am.
11:41I'm here.
11:42It's okay.
11:43I said, and then all I see was this cup just coming up.
11:47So I was like, all right.
11:48You know, I was like, at least she's still breathing.
11:51So that's all.
11:52That's all I really cared about.
12:04Sure.
12:07So, yeah, I was driving home and I was where the Jackie Robinson meets the Grand Central.
12:14And so when I'm there, I saw water like a big puddle, if you will.
12:20But the cars were driving closer to the hugging the road where you could see, you know, there was road.
12:29And within seconds, the water rose.
12:33And then six vehicles, mine included, started floating.
12:40And that's what like panic really set in.
12:44And then I have an electric vehicle, well, had an electric vehicle, and it shut down.
12:50Like it turned off.
12:52So I couldn't open the windows or the doors or anything.
12:56And I called 911 and they weren't taking the call.
13:01So I guess, you know, there was a lot going on.
13:03Then I called my husband so that he would know what was going on.
13:07Then I hung up with him, called 911.
13:08They came, they called, they took my call.
13:12And then I just started like, literally it was panic.
13:18But it happened so quickly because the water kept rising.
13:22And then by the time it got to my chest, I was like, okay, no one's coming.
13:29You got to just, so I took the metal water bottle that my girlfriend had left in the car.
13:37And I started trying to bang the sunroof.
13:41And the people that were in the floating vehicles were all screaming open the window.
13:48And I'm thinking, did you think I didn't try?
13:53And so I'm trying and trying to bang the sunroof, but barely making any head wave.
14:01And I was also holding my phone because I was like, I need to be able to call my, if
14:06I don't call Fernando, he's going to be mad.
14:08So I'm like, I have to call my husband and I'm like, so I'm trying to simultaneously do that.
14:16And I was like squat standing on the passenger car because I'm trying to keep my head as close to
14:23the sunroof as possible because the water had come up that far.
14:28And then I saw Travis and I was like, you know, like in the movies where you see like, you
14:33know, like, yeah, like, like there's, you know, celestial sunbeams coming down.
14:42And, um, he, I think he asked, you have anything?
14:46And I was like this and I was banging and then he just started pounding, you know, bare fist.
14:55And I was like, oh my God, he's going to hurt his hands. Right?
14:57Like, I just kept thinking he's, he doesn't, he's going to hurt himself.
15:03And, but I was also like, oh my God, I'm running out of space to breathe.
15:07And then he finally got a little hole and then that's when I pushed the Yeti.
15:12And I'm not saying that cause I'm getting a kickback from Yeti.
15:16I pushed the Yeti cup out so that he could use it to continue pounding.
15:21And, and he did.
15:23And then, you know, and then I, I, I, he pulled me out.
15:27So I was like, oh my God. Yes.
15:29And then I called Fernando. Yes. Yes.
15:33Hi.
15:43Nothing. Yeah.
15:44Um, Tesla model three and, um, no, I wasn't able to open anything.
15:51Yeah.
15:51And so now I think also like now, right.
15:54In hindsight, now that I'm reading up on it, I'm like, okay, always take off your seatbelt.
16:00Right. And, um, open your windows as, you know, as soon as you can unlock.
16:07And if you have children in the vehicle also, you know, um, unbuckle them.
16:12Um, yeah.
16:13Yeah.
16:14I have a quick question for you.
16:16Is it common that when cars are underwater that you cannot, uh, electronically open the doors?
16:21And it's probably a good idea for people to have, uh, escape cameras so they can escape from the car
16:26doors.
16:26Yeah.
16:27There's a lot of great things that you learned out of situations like this.
16:31One that water comes up very quickly, right?
16:33So if you start to see the water come up quickly, like Carmen was saying, open your door, open your
16:39windows right away, open your windows, take off your seatbelt.
16:43If you have children in the back, uh, you know, let them out of their car seats or their seatbelts
16:48so that we can get out.
16:49But having a way to break a window from the inside is a very important thing when you're in that
16:55situation.
16:56And nobody expects that you're going to drive the car you drive every day on the highway you drive every
17:01day and end up in a situation where you are drowning in your own car.
17:06Not at the beach, not off a pier, but on the highway that you drive.
17:11So, yes, having a way to break a window.
17:14They do sell devices that you could keep in your car.
17:16If you do have that device, I'd also recommend you not bury it in the center console in the bottom.
17:22Put it someplace where you can get it quickly if you need to.
17:25But it's, it's hard to think quick when you're in such an emergent situation.
17:29And I think Carmen did an extraordinary job of trying to stay alive just long enough for Travis to show
17:36up and bring this home and, and really, uh, save her life.
17:40So, it was really an extraordinary thing.
17:43But the, the, the quicker you act, the, the more safe you're going to be.
17:46All right.
17:46Let's have a little one.
17:48Carmen, in a final moment, can you describe just how high up the water was and what was going through
17:53your head?
17:53So that you had this, like, seems like a few inches.
17:56So, I don't know if anybody saw the picture.
17:59Because my family, when I told them the story in my group chat, they, they thought I was exaggerating.
18:06And then, but a witness, Bonnie, who was in the next car, had pictures.
18:12And you can see.
18:14Right.
18:14So, well, that's when they went down.
18:16Okay.
18:16So, you see that.
18:18So, the water was up to here.
18:21So, like, yeah.
18:23Um, I was, um, like, it came up to my neck.
18:29So, I was basically, you know, trying to keep my head up.
18:33I kept thinking Titanic, you know, when they're, you know, trying to stay above water.
18:40Um, and that was it.
18:42And, you know, and I, if it wasn't for Travis, because then the water eventually started coming down.
18:48But while that was happening, it was just coming up.
18:52Like, there was, yeah.
18:54And I, I really think that I was seconds from being, from drowning, if it wasn't for Travis pulling me
19:05out of that situation.
19:15Yeah.
19:16Yeah.
19:16Yeah.
19:17Yeah.
19:18Yes.
19:18My, um, actually, my husband was in Jersey with the grandkids.
19:22And so, my uncle's waiting for me on Parsons Boulevard and the service road.
19:27And he, like, he, I couldn't call my parents because I knew they would just fall apart.
19:33But then since we were having a press conference today, I came clean and I told them what really happened.
19:38And, and, but my, my daughter left work, uh, yesterday and came straight home and gave me a massage and
19:45made me some chamomile tea.
19:47And she was just like, yeah, we want you here.
19:51So, and, um, definitely I'm, I'm feeling loved and I'm feeling grateful.
19:57Thank you guys.
19:58Thank you guys.
19:58Thank you guys.
19:59Great job.
19:59Spell my full name.
20:01Spell my full name.
20:03Yeah.
20:03It's, uh, T-R-A-V-I-S and then L-A-N-G-A-N.
20:12Oh, Carmen, C-A-R-M-E-N, Pinto, P-I-N-T-O, like the horse, the, and the
20:19bad car, and the beans.
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