Major water main break in traps people in vehicles, affects 2K Calgary homes
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Early details from City of Calgary indicate 2,000 homes and 100 businesses are impacted by the water main break, which left people trapped in vehicles on Highway 1 as it flooded.
More than a dozen people were rescued from vehicles on the Trans Canada Highway in western Calgary late Tuesday night, after a major water main broke — leading to thousands of homes being affected.
The significant break happened in the city’s northwest in the area of the Sarcee Trail and the 16 Avenue Northwest/Trans Canada Highway interchange, near the Bowness community.
Early details from City of Calgary indicate there are 2,000 homes and 100 businesses impacted.
The Calgary Fire Department rescued 13 people from their vehicles on Highway 1 and seven vehicles were trapped in the water. Nobody was injured.
Firefighters and members of the Calgary Police Service were on the scene directing traffic late Tuesday night and overnight, the stretch of the Trans Canada crossing the Bow River was closed from Sarcee Trail to Home Road.
An Emergency Operations Centre was opened and the Municipal Emergency Plan triggered.
Calgary Mayor Jeremy Farkas announced late Tuesday night a boil water order was issued for the neighbourhoods of Montgomery, Parkdale and Point McKay.
Farkas said the city activated its Stage 4 water restrictions for outdoor water use such as rinks, snow-making or other large outdoor water usage.
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