60 ELDERLY RESIDENTS AT SENIORS' FACILITY RESCUED FROM FLOOD|雲林縣安養中心淹水 近60長者急撤離

Yunlin County has been pounded by rain since Friday night. In the Gukeng古坑 mountain district, there has been 720 mm of rain so that rivers are overflowing. Sixty people at a seniors' residential facility located at Dahu大湖 river mouth were trapped by rising waters. This seniors' residential facility in Yunlin's Dounan's started to flood around dawn on June 3 until the water was around 50 centimeters deep. Sixty elderly people were trapped until emergency rescue personnel in rubber dinghies arrived at the scene, put them in vehicles and took them to safety. ==RESIDENT== (How high was the water?) About halfway up the wheelchair. ==LIU TSAI HSIN Brigade Capt., Yunlin County Fire Dept.== Currently, we have evacuated 57 people, 24 men and 33 women. After a couple of hours, the evacuation was complete and the residents were found places at other residential facilities. Since June 2, Yunlin has experienced heavy rain so that many roads were flooded like rivers, County Magistrate Lee Chin-yung quickly announced at five am that classes and work were halted for Saturday. =LEE CHIN-YUNG Yunlin County Magistrate == To protect our residents, especially children, at 5 am we decided to halt classes and work for the day. Dounan's Dongming borough was flooded and as soon as the rain let up a little, residents started to bail water and clean up. ==RESIDENT Dounan Township Dongming Borough == Last night at about 2 am it started flooding. I heard the dogs barking there and so I got up and the whole house was flooded. I told my son to quickly move the car over there (Does it always flood here when it rains?) No, it hasn't flooded for years. The furniture is all sitting in water and residents say nothing like this has happened for years. Now they have to get to work to clean up and hope that it doesn't flood again. TRANSLATED BY：CLARE LEAR