A TEAM of council workers who helped evacuate scores of west Oxfordshire residents from their homes during flooding last year have been nominated for a national award.
West Oxfordshire District Council's flood response team has been shortlisted along with five other teams across England for going beyond the call of duty.
Staff at the council team based in Witney worked 80 hours non-stop delivering sandbags and answering more than 600 emergency calls, as well as evacuating 57 elderly residents from Riverside Court nursing home.
The team also filled and distributed 30,000 sandbags and helped more than 150 people find refuge at emergency rest centres in the area.
The team is up against counterparts from Hull, Lincolnshire and Shropshire, with the winner to be decided by a public vote.
To vote for the response team, text LGATV7 West Oxfordshire to 80039 or go to www.localgovernmentchannel.com/awards
Voting ends at midday on Thursday, July 3.
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