Dustin Nash carried his 9-year-old on his shoulders, fearful that rescuers might not have gotten to her in time.

"The first floor had been flooded all the way to the ceiling,” William Wade, a fourth-grader at the school, told KDKA. "I'm just happy to be alive," Wade added. open image in gallery Westernport ...

The children said they saw water close to the ceiling of the first floor of the school while being ... Wade said she had never experienced flooding like Tuesday’s before, but her husband had ...