Tenants have been put in emergency accommodation after water poured into a run-down block of flats and flooded an electricity cabinet.
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00:00There were pneumatic drills going most of the evening and it turned out the next morning
00:15of speaking to tenants that the roof had been removed from the building and there was torrential
00:24rain which caused a power cut throughout the whole building and the fire alarms went off.
00:32So the fire brigade came, they couldn't turn off the fire alarms but they regarded the
00:40amount of water inside the building as a fire hazard because the main electrical board for
00:47the whole building was flooded so they dug up the pavement and detached the property
00:56from the national grid and contacted Thamet District Council Emergency Housing and tenants
01:06were found alternative accommodation, quite a few of them outside Margate which is very
01:15difficult for those families who have children going to school in Margate, very disruptive
01:27to their family lives, they've had to abandon their home and all their possessions in the
01:34condemned building and travel elsewhere in Kent, not even in Thamet, to have a roof over
01:43their heads and now that school's started up again that's going to be very difficult
01:51for them, hopefully the council will be able to house them somewhere in Thamet so their
02:01children can continue going to their regular schools.