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| Chertsey homes evacuated as two 'taken ill' | |
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| Homes have been evacuated near a house in Surrey after an adult and a child were taken to hospital. | |
| Police were alerted by ambulance crews who were called to the house in Thameside, Chertsey, in the early hours. | |
| The ambulance service said the child was very seriously ill and a man - thought to be her father - was seriously ill. | The ambulance service said the child was very seriously ill and a man - thought to be her father - was seriously ill. |
| A police guard remains at the scene and approaching roads have been closed. | A police guard remains at the scene and approaching roads have been closed. |
| A specialist team from the fire service is also at the scene as well as South East Coast Ambulance Service's (Secamb) hazardous area response team. | |
| 'Area badly flooded' | |
| A Secamb spokeswoman said a woman, thought to be the child's mother, was also taken to St Peter's Hospital, in Chertsey, but she was not classed as a patient. | |
| A spokeswoman said: "It means unclear as to what caused them [the patients] to become unwell." | |
| The area had been badly flooded and ambulance teams had difficulty getting to the area. | |
| People who were evacuated from their homes were not unwell, but had been moved from nearby properties as a precaution, the spokeswoman added. |