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Ohio Submerged: Crews Recovering People Stranded in High Waters
Aired January 05, 2004 - 15:05 ET
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KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: A deluge of rain has left parts of Ohio under water. Firefighters evacuated about 125 people from homes east of Columbus last night.
Reporter Brian Hamrick from CNN affiliate WLWT shows us the extent of that flooding in one town.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
BRIAN HAMRICK, WLWT-TV REPORTER: Well this is Crosby Township along the Great Miami River. There is one boat here on stand-by, but crews have another boat out in the water out here. They've been out there all morning long.
And if you take a look at some video, you can see they have been very busy. They have been out there bringing people ashore here all morning long, two and three people at a time. Some people bringing their belongings with them, some of them bringing their animals with them.
The crews, the problem that they've had is at this point the water has come up, and on the other side of these houses is the Great Miami River. It's moving very fast. On this side, the water has come around. It's pooled up over here. Folks we've talked to say they've never seen it this bad. They didn't know it was going to rise up this quickly.
Now it's been a very orderly evacuation. Crews have been in there talking to folks. They'll suit them up in the life jackets and then they bring them back over here. At this point, there were no emergency situations. There was nothing that crews had to get in there for. In other words, there were no emergency medical situations they had to get in here for.
But they did want to get these folks over, because if this water comes up any higher, it could be very dangerous for firefighters who would have to try and get across here. At this point, the water is in a few of the homes. But some of the homes actually sit up on high and dry ground. There have been more than a half dozen people taken over here, and they're not done yet.
Again, we've talked to the folks here along the Great Miami River, and they say, some of them have lived here for more than a dozen years, and they have never seen it this bad.
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Aired January 5, 2004 - 15:05 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: A deluge of rain has left parts of Ohio under water. Firefighters evacuated about 125 people from homes east of Columbus last night.
Reporter Brian Hamrick from CNN affiliate WLWT shows us the extent of that flooding in one town.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
BRIAN HAMRICK, WLWT-TV REPORTER: Well this is Crosby Township along the Great Miami River. There is one boat here on stand-by, but crews have another boat out in the water out here. They've been out there all morning long.
And if you take a look at some video, you can see they have been very busy. They have been out there bringing people ashore here all morning long, two and three people at a time. Some people bringing their belongings with them, some of them bringing their animals with them.
The crews, the problem that they've had is at this point the water has come up, and on the other side of these houses is the Great Miami River. It's moving very fast. On this side, the water has come around. It's pooled up over here. Folks we've talked to say they've never seen it this bad. They didn't know it was going to rise up this quickly.
Now it's been a very orderly evacuation. Crews have been in there talking to folks. They'll suit them up in the life jackets and then they bring them back over here. At this point, there were no emergency situations. There was nothing that crews had to get in there for. In other words, there were no emergency medical situations they had to get in here for.
But they did want to get these folks over, because if this water comes up any higher, it could be very dangerous for firefighters who would have to try and get across here. At this point, the water is in a few of the homes. But some of the homes actually sit up on high and dry ground. There have been more than a half dozen people taken over here, and they're not done yet.
Again, we've talked to the folks here along the Great Miami River, and they say, some of them have lived here for more than a dozen years, and they have never seen it this bad.
Back to you. (END VIDEOTAPE)
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