EAST FLATBUSH, Brooklyn (PIX11) -- After a deluge flooded dozens of neighborhoods across the five boroughs and fatally injured two people in the process, people who knew the victims are not only mourning them, but are also expressing concern that infrastructure issues could result in similarly tragic emergencies becoming more frequent.

Outside of a home near the intersection of Kingston Avenue and Rutland Road, residents talked about their neighbor who they said lived in a tent in the backyard, and let his two dogs stay in the basement. The basement was inundated in a downpour on Thursday afternoon, which dropped an inch of rain in about 10 minutes, according to city authorities.

"Look up here -- the water," said one of the building's residents, pointing to a water line nearly two feet a

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