A 39-year-old man died while trying to rescue his dogs from his flooded basement and another man was electrocuted while working on a boiler in a pair of tragedies during the torrential rainstorm that rocked the Big Apple Thursday.

The FDNY scuba team was dispatched to the first flood at a home on Kingston Avenue near Rutland Road in Flatbush, Brooklyn shortly after 4 p.m., police said.

Two people died in separate flooding incidents in New York City Thursday evening. AFP via Getty Images

Inside the flooded basement, firefighters found a man who sources said had made it out of his home, but rushed back inside to save his dogs.

Video captured by a passerby showed the FDNY and members of the scuba team carrying the victim’s limp body out of the apartment building while they were still wad

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