An unanticipated flood covered with wather the valley of Brookings Bay. First only the houses located in the low of the valley was covered by the water. The rescue team quickly reached the scene and started the evacuation of the people stucked on rooftops.
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| Victims in the water |
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| Lifting up the people |
Later, at evening, as the rescue helicopter lifted up more and more victims on board, the flood was higher and higher, reached the streets of southeastern Brookings and the lower streets were submerged and needed to evacuate more citizens.
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| The flood is on the streets already |
Few hours later the flood reached the Brookings Airport and covered it more and more.
Later the rescue team needed lift up more people stucked in their cars on the water covered highway. Because the rescue helicopter was very busy and quickly full, our news helicopter joined to the saving. We also lifted up as many people as we can with our winch. Because we flown over the flood almost half day long we had low fuel and needed to land at the PD Station of Brookings South. Fortunately every people has been evacuated and only light injuries occured. Only one person needed respiration after saving him. We haven't information about any death case.
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| Evacuating from the highway |
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| Lucky end of a very bad day |
