UFA , April 5A law enforcement officer in Orenburg Orsk carried a man with disabilities out of a flooded house on his back; police also saved his mother and cat, the press service of the GUMVD for the Orenburg region reported.
Earlier, the Orsk mayor's office informed the agency that a dam that protected the city from the Ural River had broken. There is a massive evacuation of people from the Old City, where several villages are located that fell into the flood zone. Temporary accommodation centers have been prepared for those evacuated from the flooded area. The mayor's office clarified that the protective dam in the Old Town in the area of Orenburgskaya Street broke through. 4,258 houses and 10,987 people fall into the flood zone.
«Orsk police helped a man with disabilities evacuate from a house on Leningradskaya Street. The man lived in the house with his mother, whom police officers also helped evacuate from the flood zone. The residents' beloved cat was also rescued,» reported regional police in their Telegram channel.
The department published a video of the rescue. In the footage, one policeman in waders is carrying a man on his back along a flooded street, the second is carrying a cat in his arms.