South Yorlshire floods

Fire service historian and author

Roger Mardon

www.romar.org.uk

The enormity of it all strikes home when you realise this is a picture of a London Fire Brigade officer's car parked in front of an Avon Fire & Rescue water tender.

Often not appreciated but obvious when you think about it, when pumping water for flood relief you must have somewhere to pump it to without the risk of its going straight back where it came from. Here water is being released into the Smallholme and Tilts Drain at Tilts Hill Bridge on the A19.

Also not always appreciated is the reason for pumping out fields when people's homes are flooded, but here at Bentley Moor Lane a pair of HVPs is in use to try and lower the water level in flooded fields that was keeping the level high in Toll Bar village.

Hose ramps were in operation taking the hose towards the A19. It was then decided that some new outlets were needed so a line was laid on Bentley Moor Lane to go into Old Ea Beck.