More than 100 people had to be rescued in Derbyshire on Friday and the service declared a major incident due to the impact of Storm Babet.
Emergency crews have had to rescue 20 people from a care home in Derbyshire as cars were submerged in flood water in the county, Derbyshire Fire and Rescue have said.
He told BBC Breakfast: “We rescued over 100 people yesterday. For example, just on one road in Chesterfield in the north of the county, we rescued 60 people when that became up to the top of cars and several HGVs were stuck as well.“Also there were 18 houses that were evacuated in a village called Ironville, again in the north of the county.”
The RSPCA has also volunteered a boat crew in Derbyshire to help rescue animals such as horses and dogs.He added: “The advice we give today is only travel if absolutely, absolutely necessary. If floodwaters recede, then that’s absolutely great…
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