Image: PA Images Image: PA Images RESIDENTS IN NEWCASTLE in Co Down have been rescued from their homes after a river burst its banks and left the town looking “like a disaster zone”.
Stormont’s Infrastructure Department said: “Multi-agency partners are currently on the ground working in partnership responding to the impacts of Storm Francis. Throughout the North, the department’s teams continued to clear essential infrastructure to reduce the risk of flooding to homes. Geoff Simmons, from south Down, took his children to creche on Tuesday morning and had to take a 20-mile detour over the mountains in wild conditions to get home.
Fire crews also attended a flooding incident in Maghera to help rescue a number of people trapped in their home.
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