Crime & Safety
Children Rescued From Worcester Flood Diversion Tunnel
Firefighters responded to the flood diversion channel Sunday evening after a report of a child with hypothermia.
AUBURN, MA — Several children were rescued Sunday from a flood diversion tunnel near the Worcester and Auburn border.
Auburn firefighters and Worcester EMS crews went to the flood diversion tunnel in Auburn around 5 p.m. Sunday with at least one of the children suffering from hypothermia. The rescue took place at the end of the Worcester Flood Diversion Channel where a spillway exits the side of a hill near the Pappas Recreation Complex.
By 6 p.m., Auburn firefighters reported that the group had been rescued from the flood channel, and none of them needed medical attention.
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built the Worcester Flood Diversion Channel in the 1950s to divert water from Leesville Pond into the Blackstone River in Millbury to prevent flooding in the city.
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