{"id":396637,"date":"2026-01-29T09:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/396637\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T09:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:39:11","slug":"storm-chandra-danger-to-life-flood-warning-remains-in-dorset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/396637\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Chandra: &#8216;Danger to life&#8217; flood warning remains in Dorset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emergency services and staff from Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council are helping residents at Iford Bridge Home Park who were told to pack an overnight bag and move pets and vehicles to safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ron Curtis, from the Environment Agency, told the BBC residents should be allowed back soon once the situation improves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dorset Council said its crews had worked through the night, &#8220;clearing debris and tackling the highest\u2011risk spots&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DorsetCouncilUK\/posts\/pfbid038PbFreyui2mvwve522n11pM2L99wh5XG4SzSJMqBrt9NsNCveFLXoTn8BTxU4GK3l\" class=\"ssrcss-6mgqu7-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a Facebook post, external<\/a> it said it had also sent out its gritters as temperatures dropped and wet road surfaces turned to ice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Since the flooding began, our teams have worked through the night and day dealing with more than 200 call-outs,&#8221; the authority said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There have been multiple incidents across the two counties, with drivers having to be rescued after getting stuck in flood water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the New Forest, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c5y294pdqexo\" class=\"ssrcss-6mgqu7-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a driver died<\/a> when his lorry left the road in North Gorley and went into a river.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services and staff from Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council are helping residents at Iford Bridge Home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-396637","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\/396637","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=396637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}