Owner trying to save dogs, another man fixing boiler killed in NYC floods sparked by ferocious rainstorm

A 39-year-old man died while trying to rescue his dogs from his flooded basement and another man was electrocuted while working on a boiler in a pair of tragedies during the torrential rainstorm that rocked the Big Apple Thursday.

The FDNY scuba team was dispatched to the first flood at a home on Kingston Avenue near Rutland Road in Flatbush, Brooklyn shortly after 4 p.m., police said.

Two people died in separate flooding incidents in New York City Thursday evening. AFP via Getty Images

Inside the flooded basement, firefighters found a man who sources said had made it out of his home, but rushed back inside to save his dogs.

Video captured by a passerby showed the FDNY and members of the scuba team carrying the victim’s limp body out of the apartment building while they were still wading through ankle-high water in the street.

The man was taken to Kings County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

One man died while trying to save his dogs and another was reportedly electrocuted. AFP via Getty Images

It’s unclear if the dogs were rescued.

Meanwhile, about 30 minutes later in Washington Heights, a 43-year-old man was also found unresponsive inside a flooded boiler room on West 175th Street in Washington Heights shortly after 4:30 p.m., police said.

The man was pulled from the basement, but emergency responders pronounced him dead at the scene, police said.

Sources told The Post that the victim was working on the boiler during the flood and that preliminary reports indicate he was electrocuted.

Both victims’ identities are being withheld pending their families’ notification. A city medical examiner is working to determine the causes of death.

An inch of rain fell in just 10 minutes in parts of the five boroughs, creating havoc and overwhelming parts of the city’s infrastructure with little warning.

The Office of Emergency Management issued a flash flooding warning for Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens and Manhattan at 4:16 p.m.

OEM had advised people to avoid places “where water covers the roadway” and to “move to higher ground, or, if in a basement, move to a higher floor.”