Flooding wreaks havoc in Weston

WESTON — In the village center of Weston, floods arrived in the early morning hours, heavily damaging roads and buildings when the nearby West River spilled over its banks, cutting off the village for several hours in the morning.

Josh Allison, chief of the Weston Volunteer Fire Department, said around 2:45 a.m., firefighters saw the rising water behind their station and knew they had to move all their trucks out of the station.

By 5:00 a.m., there was about 5 feet of water inside the fire station. By mid-morning, the flood waters around Weston village had receded. Inside the ruined station, a layer of mud covered the floor. Allison said the fire department building has been through floods in 1973, during Tropical Storm Irene, and now today.