Boys Dies after Being Swept into Mount Airy, MD, Drainage Ditch During Flash Flood

The Mount Airy Fire Department said the boy was playing in the water in gully when he was pulled down and into a pipe.

Aug. 1, 2025

Chevall Pryce
Baltimore Sun
(TNS)

A boy was found dead after being swept into a drainage pipe in Mount Airy during Thursday’s storm, according to the Mount Airy Volunteer Fire Department.

The boy had been playing with a group of other children during the flash flood around 5:20 p.m. in the 200 block of Watersville Road, according to department spokesperson Doug Alexander.

“We got a call for a subject in the water,” Alexander said. “There was a gully that filled up with water, about waist deep. He got caught up in the flow and got washed into a pipe that goes underneath the street.”

The pipe is connected to a stormwater detention pond. A bystander found the boy’s body. He was pronounced dead at the scene, Alexander said.

Mount Airy police are investigating the death.