The head of Butler County’s Water Rescue Team said many local residents heeded the warnings for potential flooding and evacuated themselves over the rainy weekend before they found themselves stuck in a flooded home or on a flooded roadway.
“I think people are finally learning their lesson, and they’re becoming more and more aware of the dangers of the water,” Mark Adomaitis said. He leads the county’s water rescue Team 300.
The team did have to perform several rescues over the weekend, beginning at 2 p.m. Sunday on Sandy Hill road in Middlesex Township.
“A vehicle drove into the water, and the driver had to be helped out of her car,” Adomaitis said.
The most unusual rescue of the soggy weekend happened just after midnight Monday morning on Twin Lakes Road in Jackson Township where three people had to be helped out of their home due to rising waters on all sides.
“Their home was surrounded by about 4 feet of water and we had to go in and rescue them and all of their pets, which included a dozen birds,” he said. “The parrots were not happy to see us.”
Other rescues occurred in flood-proned areas, including near the Pennsylvania American Water treatment plant off Route 38 in Center Township; and on Route 38 itself in Summit Township.
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