Heavy rains for the past four days have brought copious inflows from all directions into Anantapur leading to inundation of more than 2,000 houses in 15 colonies in the north-western parts of the city. About 70 personnel of the district fire department have been involved in the rescue operations from early the hours of Wednesday.
Five teams of the fire department, led by District Fire Officer V. Srinivas Reddy, entered every flooded house and brought the residents out to safe zones, in Rajak Nagar, Ramaiah Colony, Shanthi Nagar, Ranganath Nagar and Mutyalaraju Colony.
District Collector Nagalakshmi Selvarajan, Superintendent of Police Fakkeerappa Kaginelli and Joint Collector Kethan Garg supervised the rescue operations.
