A man scrambling to save a dog from a flooding basement in Brooklyn. Another man trying to do repairs in a Manhattan boiler room as rain water rushed in.

New details have emerged about the two men who died during Thursday’s storm that dropped nearly three inches of rain in two hours. Emergency management Commissioner Zach Iscol said during an interview Friday morning that one inch of rain fell over a particularly intense 10-minute period.

A 39-year-old man died in a basement on Kingston Avenue in East Flatbush while attempting to save a dog, police said. A 43-year-old man died in the boiler room of a building on West 175th Street in Washington Heights while attempting to make repairs, according to the NYPD. Authorities declined to release the names of either victim.

Both buildings are

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