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Chertsey homes evacuated as two 'taken ill' | Chertsey homes evacuated as two 'taken ill' |
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Homes have been evacuated near a house in Chertsey after an adult and a child were taken to hospital. | |
Surrey Police were alerted by ambulance crews who were called to the house in Thameside in the early hours. | |
The ambulance service said the child was very seriously ill, and a man - thought to be the father - was seriously ill. | |
The area has been badly hit by floods, and ambulance crews said they had difficulty reaching the property. | |
After the incident, approaching roads were closed and a police guard also remained at the scene. | |
The incident was being dealt with by Surrey Police, a specialist team from the fire service, and South East Coast Ambulance Service's (Secamb) hazardous area response team. | |
'Area badly flooded' | '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 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 [is] unclear as to what caused [the patients] to become unwell." | |
People who were evacuated from their homes were not unwell, but had been moved from nearby properties as a precaution, the spokeswoman added. | People who were evacuated from their homes were not unwell, but had been moved from nearby properties as a precaution, the spokeswoman added. |
She said a number of local residents had gone to A&E at St Peter's Hospital, but none of them had needed any medical care. | |
It was understood the only patients were those in the initially-affected property, she added. | |
Roads closed | |
Sunbury resident David North, who works in Chertsey, had been in the area photographing the floods, when he saw the events unfold. | |
He said roads in the area had been closed for several days because of flooding. | |
But he added: "This morning, police were everywhere, blocking off access and not admitting people to the area." | |
He said he understood that emergency teams had come across an incident while carrying out flood-related evacuations of local properties. |