{"id":334032,"date":"2021-09-03T00:14:59","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T21:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/connecticut-state-trooper-dead-after-cruiser-washed-away-by-flood\/"},"modified":"2021-09-03T00:14:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T21:14:59","slug":"connecticut-state-trooper-dead-after-cruiser-washed-away-by-flood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/connecticut-state-trooper-dead-after-cruiser-washed-away-by-flood\/","title":{"rendered":"#Connecticut state trooper dead after cruiser washed away by flood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Connecticut state trooper dead after cruiser washed away by flood<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>A veteran Connecticut state trooper was killed early Thursday morning when his cruiser was swept away amid heavy flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Ida.<\/p>\n<p>The trooper, a sergeant with 26 years of service in the department, was working a midnight shift in Woodbury when he radioed for help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt 3:30, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roximately, in the morning, Troop L received an emergency call from the sergeant that his vehicle was in swift water and that he was in distress,\u201d Connecticut State Police Col. Stavros Mellekas, the agency\u2019s commanding officer, said at a press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was the last they heard of him,\u201d he said at the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfsb.com\/news\/state-police-sergeant-dies-after-being-pulled-from-flooding-in-woodbury\/article_b3ba52e4-0bde-11ec-889d-d3944d399b6b.html\">briefing.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mellekas said the troopers pinged the sergeant\u2019s phone to locate him but were unable to find the cruiser.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe sent all assets right away with the fire departments and dive teams \u2014 anyone you can imagine,\u201d Mellekas told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>When the floodwaters began to subside at daybreak, police began a search of the area, including from the air with police choppers, and located the vehicle \u201cmostly submerged\u201d near Jack\u2019s Bridge \u2014 but there was no sign of the missing sergeant.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/ct-trooper.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Authorities at the scene of where the Connecticut state trooper was killed after his vehicle was swept away by a flood.\" class=\"wp-image-19332390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/ct-trooper.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/ct-trooper.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/ct-trooper.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Authorities at the scene of where the Connecticut state trooper was killed after his vehicle was swept away by a flood.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">WFSB<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAbout an hour after that, continuing our search, the sergeant was located in the water of the river,\u201d Mellekas said. <\/p>\n<p>He was treated at the scene and transported to Yale-New Haven Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEn route, he was presumed dead and confirmed upon arrival at New Haven,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The trooper\u2019s name was not released pending family notifications.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>It was the 25th line-of-duty death in the history of the Connecticut state police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA trooper, 26 years, has given his life for a greater good,\u201d Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont said. \u201cI was telling everybody, \u2018Stay safe, stay home. Let\u2019s ride out this storm.\u2019 That\u2019s not what you do as a trooper.\u201d\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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The trooper, a sergeant with 26 years of service in the department, was working a midnight shift in Woodbury when&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":334033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/ct-trooper.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[115283,73966,72150,33536,72032,76953,77834],"class_list":["post-334032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-9-2-21","tag-connecticut","tag-extreme-weather","tag-floods","tag-police-officers","tag-state-police","tag-state-troopers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}