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‘Truly unprecedented’: Crews rescue hundreds from historic flooding in Philadelphia, Montgomery counties

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PHILADELPHIA - Hundreds of people needed to be rescued from their homes after the Schuylkill River leaked into Philadelphia on Thursday flooding parts of the city in feet of water.

Philadelphia Fire Commissioner Adam Theil called the flooding "truly unprecedented" in a phone interview with FOX 29's Good Day Philadelphia.

He said that the river had not overflowed this severely since 1869, over 150 years ago. The flooding comes after leftover storms from a system that once formed Hurricane Ida slammed into the Delaware Valley on Wednesday afternoon and evening, bringing heavy downpours, severe thunderstorms and tornadoes. RELATED COVERAGERainfall totals in the Philadelphia area amounted to around 10 inches, which helped the Schuylkill River.

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