A Canadian military helicopter airlifts a man from the swollen Etobicoke Creek after huge floods and power outage.
The raging rain and floods was too much for this one man who had to be rescued by helicopter from the swollen Etobicoke Creek.
A Canadian military helicopter was summoned to airlift the man to safety during a July 16 outburst that flooded highways and knocked off power to 167,000 people.
More than 20 people were rescued by firefighters after being trapped in elevators.
Many elderly residents were reminded of the outburst by Hurricane Hazel, with struck on October 15, 1954, which will be 70 years in three months.
Homes get washed away in Eobicoke Creek during Hurricane Hazel storm.
Hurricane Hazel killed at least 469 people in Haiti before it struck Canada and the U.S. near the border between North and South Carolina as a Category 4 hurricane.
A number of homes in Long Branch and the Marie Curtis Park area were taken away by the fast-moving flood waters.
Toronto Fire Services said several emergency services were called on Tuesday to the creek near Sherway Drive shortly after 5:30 p.m. for a rescue.
“There is no word on the person’s condition. It is unknown how the man got stranded on the island,” fire officials said.
The man was just one of several people who had to be rescued after heavy rainfall caused widespread flooding in Toronto.
Area residents save babies and others from being washed away by Hurricane Hazel.
According to Toronto Fire, on Tuesday, they rescued 20 people from cars and buildings, including a dozen who were stranded on the Don Valley Parkway.
“We had a gentleman stranded in the middle of the Etobicoke River stranded on a small island. We had a lot of flooding today, and we had high-flowing waves going through the river,” Toronto Fire District Chief Tony Rowe told reporters.
Toronto Fire added that crews responded to almost 500 incidents between 6 a.m. and 3 p.m., including elevator rescue and water calls.
Fire firefighters perished from the flood waters while tending to Hurricane Hazel calls.
Hurricane Hazel was the deadliest, second-costliest, and most intense hurricane of the 1954 Atlantic hurricane season. The storm killed hundreds of people in Haiti before it struck the U.S.