Flash flooding leaves at least three dead in Tennessee | Tennessee
Flash flood and heavy rain cost at least three lives in Tennessee on Wednesday, and the district mayor declared an emergency situation and caused damage to the roads around Chattanooga.
According to the authorities in the region, it was removed from the root of the saturated place and early on Wednesday morning, in East Ridge, at the foot of Chattanooga, on the foothills of Chattanooga, killed a child and two adults.
On Tuesday night, it rained almost seven inches to the Hamilton County area, closed an inter -state motorway and directed the district mayor Weston Wamp to announce an emergency in force on Wednesday morning.
The emergency officials were missing after seeing the flood waters in the Chattanooga region on Tuesday night, but he could not reach him despite the search for a rescue boat.
Tim Kelly, Mayor of Chattanooga, Sabah said on TV Tennessee warned the people not to go to flood waters.
After the flash flood, people were stranded in their cars and homes.
Firefighters rescued a few people from vehicles that were dangerous to sweep the roads while flood waters.
Firefighters, “Firefighters, stuck people spent hours to control sunken cars. This was a great coordinated response effort because it caused dangerous situations by the city, district and state agencies Chattanooga,” he said. NBC reported.
The Sheriff MPs saved some residents stuck in their homes in the East Ridge region while the waters were rising and helped people with swelling rescue boats.
