The owner of a decommissioned fire engine from 1955 has been helping pump out water from homes after flood waters swept through a Nottinghamshire village during Storm Dennis.
Heavy rain fell overnight from Saturday, February 15, and led to the Cocker Beck brook in Lowdham bursting its banks, leaving more than 50 homes submerged in murky flood waters.
One such home, just off Southwell Road, was owned by Paul Stones' 27-year-old daughter.
The 60-year-old said they "could not do anything" as her home filled with water which began raging down the road from around 2am.
"She has lived in this house for three years," he said.
"We've never seen anything like it. We just do not know what to do. We are sick of it."
To help rid the property of water, David Moore, who re-enacts with the National Fire Service and Auxiliary Fire Service Vehicles Group, came into Lowdham with his Green Goddess fire engine.
He bought the vehicle for £2,500 and now uses it to help homeowners each time the village floods, including in November last year and back in 2013.
The fire engines were used to support the British public following the Second World War, and throughout the Cold War in preparation for if the Soviet Union detonated an atomic bomb.
The Auxiliary Fire Service was disbanded in 1968 and the vehicles were only used by the Armed Forces during the firefighters strikes in 1977 and then for flooding up until present.
Mr Moore said: "I re-enact with the AFS group. I'm just doing my bit to help. I helped out in November when it flooded.
"It is very good at holding water so we are using it to pump it out of this house."
Mr Moore pumped water out of the property, which stood down a small slope off Southwell Road, and back into Cocker Beck brook, where a fountain of flood water sprayed into the air.
While he was pumping water, villagers approached him for thanks and even provided him with money for fuel.
Mr Stones added: "We're thankful David is here. But something has got to be done about this."
