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| Heavy rains race across Penn., inmates moved |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 11/24/2003 |
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Fast moving storms that dumped as much as three inches of rain last week as they swept across Pennsylvania swelled creeks and rivers and caused mudslides, prompting people to seek higher ground, including dozens of inmates in a county jail. The storms were blamed for at least one death. State police said a woman was killed when her station wagon skidded on a rain-covered road in suburban Pittsburgh, overturned and collided into an oncoming vehicle. She was killed after both vehicles burst into flames, state police said. The driver of the second vehicle was taken to a hospital. Flash floods were reported throughout western Pennsylvania last Wednesday afternoon with some of the worst in Uniontown, about 40 miles south of Pittsburgh, where waters submerged cars in three feet of water and 57 inmates were evacuated from a jail. Inmates at an annex of the Fayette County Jail were moved to the county's older stone jail to escape the rising water, said Warden Larry Medlock. |
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