B.C. community gets volunteer support after flash floods [Video]

In the muck, beneath a mobile home, volunteers with a veteran-led disaster response group, clear mud and debris after flash floods hit a small B.C. community hard just over a week ago.

“Some of the places we were working at, it was probably up to a foot of mud,” said Brett Simms, a volunteer with Team Rubicon Canada.

Flooding in Savona, which is near Kamloops, happened after a powerful storm June 30 that sent water pouring into basements and damaging properties. About 20 homes were substantially damaged and a total of 50 properties were impacted.

“It was basically a river running under my house and on each side of it…What a disaster,” said Savona resident, Terry Schweiger.

“We had about two inches of mud and muck in the basement and furniture, whatever was down there, is wet and ugly,” explained long-time Savona resident, Ruth Lakes who is 79.

“It happened …