Crime & Safety
1 Rescued After Being Carried 100 Feet By Floods: Berwyn Fire Co
The Berwyn Fire Company saved a resident who was stuck in a storm culvert Monday morning after traveling about 100 feet under water.
TREDYFFRIN TOWNSHIP, PA – Tredyffrin Township Police and the Berwyn Fire Company were quite busy Monday handling numerous calls from Monday's harsh weather than hit the Philadelphia region, with the fire company rescuing a resident who was swept away in a storm culvert.
The fire company was called to the 900 block of Eagle School Road for a water rescue after a resident from a flooding storm culvert at about 9:16 a.m. Monday.
When responders found the person, they were clutched to a tree as waters rushed by and the fire company said the person traveled about 100 feet under water below Devon Park Drive and the Chester Valley Trail in the stormwaters.
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Luckily, crews were able to safely rescue the person from the culvert and took them to Paoli Hospital for non-life threatening injuries.
Responders got 36 calls Monday morning, 18 of which were for water rescues.
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Police said residents and officers who have decades of living experience in the township reported never seeing flash flooding like Monday's.
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