Here’s another aerial shot of the Harpeth River flooding Old Harding Pike in Bellevue. You can see a fire truck laying partly to its side. Courtesy: Joey Martin in Bellevue. @WSMV pic.twitter.com/YyeoTHIBn2
— Caresse Jackman (@CaresseJ) March 28, 2021
A Nashville fire truck heading to a water rescue slid off the road and into the engorged Harpeth River. It happened right next to the Bellevue driving range and golf course – a place that floods easily but almost never floods like this.
DEADLY FLOODING: The Nashville Fire Department said four people were killed, 71 people were transported to hospitals and crews responded to 251 incidents during flash flooding Saturday evening and overnight.
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— WTVC NewsChannel 9 (@newschannelnine) March 29, 2021
The rushing waters also swept away a Nashville fire truck on Old Harding Pike near Morton Mill as firefighters raced to a rescue call.
A fire department spokesperson tells News 2 all of their personnel made it out of the sinking fire engine safely.
Nashville, TN – NFD Truck 37 lost to flash flood waters. At least four killed during flooding in the Metro area of Nashville. #TNfire pic.twitter.com/MKY4ZXkAdg
— CAROLINAS FIRE PAGE (@CFPalerts) March 28, 2021
