Severe flooding in south Manchester following heavy rainfall on New Year's Day has displaced hundreds, forcing evacuations and making homes inaccessible. Emergency services launched a major rescue operation, with fire crews, water rescue units, police, paramedics and mountain rescue teams responding.
People 'trapped in their flats' before being rescued are unable to return home after severe flooding hit south Manchester on New Year's Day. Palatine Road and surrounding streets in Didsbury became submerged after relentless rainfall on December 31. 'Hundreds' of people were to be rescued as a nearby Britannia hotel, which is housing asylum seekers, was evacuated along with nearby homes. The M.E.N. understands the number could top 500.
Videos and pictures taken from the south Manchester suburb on Wednesday night showed a huge emergency response, including fire crews, water rescue units, incident response teams, police and paramedics and mountain rescue teams all in attendance amid the major rescue mission. People were seen being transported on rubber boats along Palatine Road to safety. A witness said the Britannia Country Park Hotel suffered a power cut and had started to flood, prompting the mass evacuation. A major incident was declared by emergency services on Wednesday (January 1). Police said that Bolton, Didsbury, Harpurhey, Stalybridge, Stockport and Wigan were the areas which had seen the greatest impact. Sarah Baram, 40, lives in a top floor apartment nearby with her son and pet dog. Her block was evacuated and she was forced to find alternative living arrangements with family. She told the M.E.N of the scary moment water began to rise in her block car park and said a woman with two young children was trapped in her flat. Holding her son in the rain on Palatine Road, she told the M.E.N: 'At 7.30 this morning we came out and everything was fine. At 9 o'clock I came down in the lift, opened the doors to the car park and all of the water started pouring into the lift. 'We came outside through the stairs and the water level then, I'd say, was maybe only calf deep. We went to the garage to get the car and it was probably knee deep in the basement. 'We came back at 11 and the water level had risen half a metre or s
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