{"id":394757,"date":"2026-01-28T09:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T09:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/394757\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T09:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T09:36:07","slug":"storm-chandra-couple-rescued-in-dinghy-after-being-trapped-by-floodwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/394757\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Chandra: Couple rescued in dinghy after being trapped by floodwater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">By evening, the couple could not leave the house without help because the water outside was so deep.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An off-duty firefighter, who had been told of the couple&#8217;s plight, went to their house to help get them to safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They praised firefighters for rescuing them, but they questioned the response of DfI staff to distress calls about the rapidly rising river level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There was absolutely nothing done until four o&#8217;clock yesterday evening, whenever it was too late,&#8221; Cunningham said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The couple have been living in the house for just seven months, having bought the property in June 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was the beauty of buying a house by the river, and now the river is in our house,&#8221; Letherman said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By evening, the couple could not leave the house without help because the water outside was so deep.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-394757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}