Mason's 15-year-old brother and his mother tried to pull the teen out of the water as he got stuck in the drain, just 20 feet away from the family apartment,

In a separate incident, emergency responders rescued an 8-year-old boy standing atop a submerged car and a 2-year-old and woman trapped inside.

A flash flood hit a small Maryland community in a matter of minutes. In even less time, a 13-year-old boy was gone.Mason Paul Kearns was swept into a storm drain just 20 feet from his family’s front door on Thursday,