UPDATE 7/26/10 @ 6:45 p.m.
DANVILLE, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Another round of floodwaters claimed another life over the weekend. This time, it was a man from Danville who was swept away from just outside his home.

Chris Ryan died despite a heroic rescue attempt.

We talked with family and friends - and the second man in - who was lucky to get out alive.

Into our second week of intense storms, West Virginia has now sadly joined eastern Kentucky and southern Ohio on the fatal flood list.

The scenarios are the same -- more rain in less time and swifter currents than ever seen before.

This time, a dad was trying to make sure his daughter got home safely. In the process, he was swept away.

Kelly Ryan says her husband Chris was clearing debris from the flood-swollen creek and road at their Thurmond Street home -- so a daughter on a play date could get home safely. But then she says the Sunday evening rain hit harder -- the water came up high and fast -- maybe 6 feet -- and Chris went in.

Kelly told us that Chris was able to get his face up and say he was OK – that his daughter was in there and so was he.

Kelly and her daughter made it out safely. Chris was still heading downstream.

Kelly says next-door neighbor Paul Bentley ran past 20 bystanders and jumped into the rushing water. He says he was trying to keep Chris from getting sucked into a culvert drain pipe.

"I grabbed his hand but he went under, and I went in the drain pipe," Paul Bentley said. "It took four to five guys to pull me out. I was in there ten minutes. It got me from here on my stomach on down; I wish there was more I could have done."

Searchers found Chris Ryan’s body more than a mile down stream -- on the other side of Danville in the Little Coal River.

Kelly Ryan says her husband was a good man a good dad; he would help anybody with anything.

Chris Ryan was a 41-year-old disabled coal miner. He leaves behind his wife Kelly of 17 years, as well as three daughters.

Bentley, the brave man who attempted the rescue, was treated and released with a number of injuries. He said he jumped in because he knew Chris Ryan would do the same for him.

A Boone County emergency dispatcher says the man fell into a creek Sunday evening. The victim's body was discovered downstream in the Little Coal River in Danville.

State Police identified the victim as 41-year-old Chris Ryan of Danville.

The county dispatcher says another man who also fell into the creek was rescued and taken to a local hospital. His condition wasn't known Monday.

National Weather Service meteorologist Dave Marsalek says 2 to 2-and-a-half inches of rain fell on the area in about three hours.

Marsalek says Lincoln County received a similar amount of rain.

911 dispatchers say a man's body was found floating in high water near Lick Creek Road outside of Danville. They say the man was in the Newport area when he fell into the flooded creek.

The victim's identity has not been released.

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High water has been reported all along Route 3 and Route 119 in the Danville area, all the way to Rock Creek.

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The agency says the watch issued Sunday covers 41 of the state's 55 counties. It is in effect until 7 p.m.

Among the counties covered by the warning are Barbour, Berkeley, Kanawha, Boone, Putnam and Cabell counties.