Riflemen from the 7th Battalion The Rifles joined firefighters to build a dam with hundreds of sandbags to protect an electricity substation at Pingewood, Burghfield.
The substation supplies power for about 40,000 homes and businesses.
It comes as a number of severe flood warnings were issued along the Thames between Old Windsor and Datchet.
what's interesting about this one is that an Army Reserve unit (7RIFLES) was the point of the spear in this operation - with no Regular Army participation (at ground level) until the Relief In Place (RIP) this evening.
the operation was well co-ordinated from the outset when elements of the Battalion were mobilised, and we helped prevent the situation getting far worse.
and yes i am in some of the pics / video footage above.
The substation supplies power for about 40,000 homes and businesses.
It comes as a number of severe flood warnings were issued along the Thames between Old Windsor and Datchet.
what's interesting about this one is that an Army Reserve unit (7RIFLES) was the point of the spear in this operation - with no Regular Army participation (at ground level) until the Relief In Place (RIP) this evening.
the operation was well co-ordinated from the outset when elements of the Battalion were mobilised, and we helped prevent the situation getting far worse.
and yes i am in some of the pics / video footage above.
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