{"id":109066,"date":"2025-08-01T02:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T02:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/109066\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T02:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T02:03:08","slug":"boy-dies-after-getting-swept-into-drainage-pipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/109066\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy dies after getting swept into drainage pipe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA boy died after getting swept into a drainage pipe while playing with other kids in Mount Airy, an official told 11 News.The boy was with a group of kids playing during flash flooding around 5:20 p.m. on Thursday before stormwater rushed down a hill and the boy was swept into a drainage pipe, according to the Mount Airy Volunteer Fire Company.Fire department personnel responded to the 200 block of West Watersville Road in Carroll County.A bystander found the boy&#8217;s body, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.The Mount Airy Police Department is conducting a death investigation, an official said. This breaking story may be updated.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong class=\"dateline\">MOUNT AIRY, Md. \u2014<\/strong> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A boy died after getting swept into a drainage pipe while playing with other kids in Mount Airy, an official told 11 News.<\/p>\n<p>The boy was with a group of kids playing during flash flooding around 5:20 p.m. on Thursday before he was swept into a drainage pipe that connects to a stormwater retention pond, according to the Mount Airy Volunteer Fire Company.<\/p>\n<p>Fire department personnel responded to the 200 block of West Watersville Road in Carroll County.<\/p>\n<p>A bystander found the boy&#8217;s body, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The Mount Airy Police Department is conducting a death investigation, an official said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis content is imported from Twitter.<br \/>\n\tYou may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just spoke with Mount Airy Vol. Fire Co. They said the boy was playing in this area of the Mount Airy Apartments on Watersville Rd when stormwater came rushing down a hill, sweeping the boy into a drainage pipe. We\u2019ll hear more from the FD on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wbaltv11?ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@wbaltv11<\/a> at 10\/11 tonight. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ap0jzTbfyH\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/ap0jzTbfyH<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5SrqFn9ZBK\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/5SrqFn9ZBK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tori Yorgey WBAL (@toriyorgeytv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/toriyorgeytv\/status\/1951088507289547227?ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 1, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n\tThis content is imported from Twitter.<br \/>\n\tYou may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING | A young boy was found dead after he was swept away by flood waters this evening in Mt. Airy, Carroll County, per the Mt. Airy Vol. Fire Dept. They say a group of kids were playing in the flood water before it happened. We\u2019re heading to the scene now. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wbaltv11?ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@wbaltv11<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tori Yorgey WBAL (@toriyorgeytv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/toriyorgeytv\/status\/1951062444157415438?ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 31, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This breaking story may be updated.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A boy died after getting swept into a drainage pipe while playing with other kids in Mount Airy,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[7910,4637,31142,69553,17829,69554,69555,69556,69557,69558,69559,19292,69568,69560,746,69570,8774,5169,69552,69561,69562,69563,69564,69565,69566,69567,50,1408,69569,17820,159,645,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-109066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-area","9":"tag-body","10":"tag-boy","11":"tag-boy-dies","12":"tag-bystander","13":"tag-child-death","14":"tag-child-death-mount-airy","15":"tag-child-drainage-pipe","16":"tag-child-in-drainage-pipe","17":"tag-child-in-pipe","18":"tag-child-rescue","19":"tag-death-investigation","20":"tag-drainage-pipe","21":"tag-emergency-mount-airy","22":"tag-environment","23":"tag-fire-department-personnel","24":"tag-flash-flooding","25":"tag-group","26":"tag-mount-airy","27":"tag-mount-airy-child-death","28":"tag-mount-airy-child-rescue","29":"tag-mount-airy-emergency","30":"tag-mount-airy-investigation","31":"tag-mount-airy-police","32":"tag-mount-airy-storm-damage","33":"tag-mount-airy-storms","34":"tag-news","35":"tag-official","36":"tag-other-kid","37":"tag-p-m","38":"tag-science","39":"tag-story","40":"tag-united-states","41":"tag-unitedstates","42":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}