Some Maryland communities saw severe flooding on Thursday after storms brought heavy rain across the state. Several water rescues were reported in Harford County as flooding prompted road closures in some areas, like Joppatowne. In Mt. Airy, a child drowned after being washed into a drainage pipe during a heavy rainstorm on Thursday evening.

A Maryland community is heartbroken after a 13-year-old boy got swept into a storm drain during flash flooding and died. FOX 5’s Sydney Persing is at the apartment complex where it happened .

A heartbroken community in Mount Airy, Maryland is mourning the loss of a 13-year-old boy, who died during the flash flooding in the mid-Atlantic Thursday.