Neighbors ferried Durango residents out of the flood

Floodwater tore through Durango neighborhoods, and neighbors did the evacuating, 9NEWS reported. Search-and-rescue volunteer Ben Beresford and people who live nearby helped about seven residents get out. One trip lifted an elderly woman and her service dog into a dump truck because that was the vehicle that could still move.

After the water dropped, hundreds of people sandbagged and dug homes out. The count of about seven is the evacuation Beresford and neighbors made, and the sandbag line was the wider neighborhood response that followed.