Nova Scotia flash flood victim identified as 13-year-old; family in shock

An online fundraising page has identified nan unfortunate of past week’s flash floods successful occidental Nova Scotia arsenic 13-year-old Eli Young.

A memorial tract has been group up astatine nan Wolfville, N.S., parkland wherever Eli died, according to a study by nan CBC.

Sarah Furey, a adjacent friend of Eli’s family who is operating nan GoFundMe page, says nan group who were adjacent to him are successful daze astatine his abrupt death.

Eli was swept into a ditch connected Thursday successful a Wolfville parkland during flash flooding that caused extended harm crossed occidental Nova Scotia.

Furey says 2 weeks earlier his decease Eli vanished Grade 7 astatine nan Wolfville School, wherever he played constituent defender connected nan boys hoops team.

She says Eli was fiercely loyal and protective of his 3 sisters and younger brother, and considered his mom to beryllium nan smartest personification he knew.

The online fundraiser has truthful acold raised much than $43,000.

Minister blames municipalities for emergency alert delay

The Nova Scotia authorities is criticizing municipalities for their determination not to petition an emergency alert during nan flooding past week.

In a missive to mayors and prison guard sent today, John Lohr, curate of municipal affairs, said that usually an alert must travel from nan municipalities because they are “best positioned” to hole really messages are worded.

However, Lohr says that arsenic much than 100 millimetres of rainfall fell successful a fewer hours connected nan occidental and cardinal regions connected July 11, nan state had to return nan “extremely different step” of issuing an alert connected its ain astatine 8:30 p.m.

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That was 3 hours aft reports describing submerged, impassable roads and group having to fly their homes were coming successful from first responders, and 1 hr aft RCMP received a telephone astir a younker disappearing successful a drainage ditch successful Wolfville, N.S.

Lohr says successful his missive to nan municipalities that arsenic nan state useful connected authorities to modernize nan emergency alert system, he’s expecting municipalities “to beryllium much vigilant successful issuing alerts.”

Recordings of power calls made Thursday evening by nan occurrence section of Kings County, which includes Wolfville, bespeak that residents were already calling successful astir utmost flooding astir 5:30 p.m., describing rescues astir nan region.

This study by The Canadian Press was first published July 16, 2024.