Flooding causes road closures and stranded vehicles in Queens, New York NY
Road ClosureHeavy flooding in northern Queens caused multiple road closures on Cross Island Parkway, Clearview, and nearby areas. Vehicles, including a white BMW, became stranded with people trapped inside due to high water. Emergency units worked to close roads and respond to flooding hazards to protect public safety.
Audio|Source: NYPD - 109th and 111th Precincts
08:24
Transcript:
00:00
Central, you have any 109 units that are available to help assist shut down the southbound Cross Island Parkway just for the Throgsneck Bridge?
00:10
Can I get an available unit in the 109 to shut down Southbound Cross Island to Throgsneck Bridge, please.
00:17
Sergeant,
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109, Lieutenant.
00:24
One of my lieutenant or south sergeant, you all read, I need an available unit to shut down the southbound Cross Island Parkway towards Throgsneck, please, regarding highway flooding.
00:44
All right, guys, you're cutting each other off, who's going where?
00:51
We'll be going to southbound. All right, ten-four, thank you.
00:56
You want to mark that explosion for me?
00:59
Or you don't have a final yet?
01:02
91 FD.
01:04
Thank you so much.
01:07
Highway 301 to that unit. Just be advised, you might be better off getting going counterflow on that ramp.
01:14
DOT emergencies right there that just need help shutting it down.
01:21
Number two. One number two.
01:25
Eighty-four and a point two.
01:31
Ten four, sixteen, twenty-twenty.
01:33
Which one? The one on College Point or the one on Five Dance?
01:39
College Point.
01:40
Right, ten four, eighty-four time and sixteen twenty eight.
01:49
9, sat sergeant.
01:52
That's sergeant.
01:53
Yeah, show me going to the Throgsneck as well.
01:56
Alright, 10-4[1].
02:00
11 Charlie 1.11 Charlie 1.
02:03
11, Charlie 1.
02:08
Show me with heavy flooding, 5, 6ab and Springfield Boulevard.
02:19
Right time for 1629 and show you there for heavy flooding.
02:25
Do you see that white BMW?
02:30
There's a white BMW at that location.
02:34
The water is too high to open the door.
02:37
Person's strapped in the vehicle.
02:39
A white BMW.
02:42
Units check your portable.
02:45
Hello, Units.
02:47
Units.
02:48
Units. Units.
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Units. Units check your portable.
02:52
Hello? Units. Check your portables, please.
02:56
Units, check your portable.
02:58
and second time
03:00
I'm not working there
03:05
Thank you so much ladies and gentlemen
03:08
11 David
03:17
All the units in the 111, all the units in the 111.
03:20
I'm also going to ask all the units in the 109.
03:23
Please survey your location.
03:26
Check to see if you will have any major flood conditions going on in your sectors, please guys and girls, please.
03:34
111.
03:35
Adam, I'm going to add another to your queue. This one is a major flood condition, (number withheld) Northern Boulevard, Morgan to Glenwood.
03:44
11, Adam, Redd.
03:46
Thank you. Charlie, I'm going to add to your Q, major flood condition. Clearview, Northern in your sector, Charlie 1.
03:53
I'm going to add to your Q, Charlie 2, 1010, Northern Boulevard, Cross Island Parkway.
03:59
All right, guys.
04:02
111, David.
04:03
I'm going to add to your Q 1010, Cross Island and Little Neck Parkway just before the parkway water is getting inside the vehicle.
04:09
The vehicle is trying to turn back. It is stuck westbound just before the parkway Cross Island Parkland, Little Neck Bay. Okay, guys.
04:25
Everybody, surveying.
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Your sectors,
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make sure,
04:31
if it is you'll see someone major flood condition, let me know, please, guys.
04:35
Let the lieutenant sergeants know, please.
04:38
Yes,
04:40
you, Adam, Ted.
04:41
All right, we're headed to the Clearview,
04:45
just south of northern.
04:47
What I have one of our supervisors there with two vehicles in the water, any other units that have flooding conditions, please just let us know.
04:56
All right, ESU Adam 10, I read, everybody read what the ESU and 111.
05:02
Guys, Lieutenant, Sergeant, you read?
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Charlie to read.
05:10
11,
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David.
05:17
11, David.
05:18
84, and this rescue is Charlie 1. Thank you so much, 1632.
05:27
Highway 301 Central.
05:29
Highway 301, proceed here.
05:32
Speedvis, if you got another 109 unit that can shut down the entrance ramp from Bell, onto the southbound Cross Island Parkway.
05:39
That'd be a huge hold.
05:41
All right, Bell, and you said, Southbound, Cross Island Parkway?
05:46
Down four. We're going to have a full closure of the Cross Island from the Throgsneck Bridge to Northern Boulevard.
05:52
All right, 10 4.4.4 closure. Can I get another 109 unit? To respond to the location, please.
05:58
Southbound, Bell Boulevard, Boulevard, Cross Island Parkway.
06:00
9.
06:02
That, Charlie, 2. 105 that, and I'll go over there.
06:07
Bell Boulevard, Southbound, to Cross Island Parkway to the Throgsneck to, I think you said, Clearview.
06:13
Total shutdown over there.
06:15
So 119. South Charlie, 2, you're heading that way?
06:19
And four.
06:21
Thank you so much.
06:25
Highway three in one red, thanks guys.
06:34
Thank you, Adam.
06:38
Thank you, Adam. Q Adam.
06:40
Adam.
06:41
Nice to mark my 66, 7 and 91.
06:46
104.
06:50
Could any one of you of Q units help us all with these flooding conditions in the 1111?
06:59
111 Q. Adam, could you pick up this major flooding condition in Adam's sector? Springfield Boulevard, L.I.E. Exit 29, please.
07:08
That's all.
07:09
Thank you so much.
07:16
149 South Sergeant.
07:20
Can you raise up that highway unit to see where they are?
07:24
Highway 301. Highway 301.
07:27
All right, where exactly are you guys?
07:33
I'm shutting down the northbound Cross Island Parkway Bell Boulevard so this side is taken care of. We just need a block at the southbound Cross Island Parkway just before Willis Point Boulevard in the Clearview.
07:46
And we need a street side closure at the entrance from Bell Boulevard to the southbound Cross Island.
07:55
All right. Saw drive.
08:05
Nine boy one.
08:07
All right, boy one.
08:09
That should be advised, not 32, equal market 91.
08:12
He can show me ready from other 22 in location.
08:16
All right, ten four.
08:19
11 Q, Charlie.
08:22
One second, one other than Q, Charlie, one second, dear.
Police codes explained
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10-4: Acknowledgment—message received, understood, or OK.
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