{"id":926,"date":"2021-09-02T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/CAIiEOP6pFe_hsMciKrRBS46AbIqFggEKg0IACoGCAow7s8BMNBIMLXUiQY"},"modified":"2021-09-02T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T07:00:00","slug":"connecticut-state-trooper-killed-by-floodwaters-as-northeast-ida-deaths-rise-to-48-the-daily-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=926","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut State Trooper Killed by Floodwaters as Northeast Ida Deaths Rise to 48 &#8211; The Daily Beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.thedailybeast.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,d_placeholder_euli9k,h_862,w_1532,x_13,y_0\/dpr_2.0\/c_limit,w_740\/fl_lossy,q_auto\/v1630680090\/Screen_Shot_2021-09-03_at_10.39.13_AM_g3qtcw\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"Mobiledoc\">\n<p>A Connecticut state trooper was among <a class=\"LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hurricane-ida-new-york-new-jersey-flooding-f50cc6c7f822be4428495427f30cbd16\">the 48 people killed<\/a> as the remnants of Hurricane Ida swept across the Northeast this week. Sgt. Brian Mohl, who has served with the Connecticut State Police since 1994, was driving through a rural area when his car was swept up in floodwaters, authorities said. He notified his team around 3:30 a.m. Thursday, but no one heard from him after that. Officials later found his car mostly submerged in a river, with Mohl\u2019s lifeless body nearby. \u201cEvery line of duty death is heartbreaking and the loss of Sgt. Mohl is no different. He was outside, in the middle of the night, in horrendous conditions, patrolling the Troop L area,\u201d State Police Col. Stavros Mellekas told <em>The Register Citizen<\/em>. \u201cHe was doing a job he loved and he was taken much too soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The sentiment was shared by Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont. \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 he said. \u201cAs a trooper, you go out and you look and you try to rescue others \u2014 take care of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"ReadItAtLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.registercitizen.com\/news\/article\/Reports-Search-underway-in-Woodbury-for-person-16430388.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>Read it at <\/span><span class=\"ReadItAtLink__name\">The Register Citizen<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Connecticut state trooper was among the 48 people killed as the remnants of Hurricane Ida swept across the Northeast this week. Sgt. Brian Mohl, who has served with the Connecticut State Police since 1994, was driving through a rural area when his car was swept up in floodwaters, authorities said. He notified his team around 3:30 a.m. Thursday, but no one heard from him after that. Officials later found his car mostly submerged in a river, with Mohl\u2019s lifeless body nearby. \u201cEvery line of duty death is heartbreaking and the loss of Sgt. Mohl is no different. He was&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut-cbd-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}