Joined by his dad Dean, 56, the good Samaritan even drove a pregnant woman to safety and began rescuing more elderly people in the area before the water became too deep for his digger to operate.
Hero saved grandparents from UK floods by scooping pensioners up in his digger A hero farmer managed to rescue his grandparents from their flooded home by driving them away them to safety in his tractor.
Ryan Wesley, 31, told his grandparents, aged in their 80s, to sit inside the digger's bucket after helping them escape through a bedroom window of their bungalow in Billingborough, Lincolnshire, on Monday.
It comes after a major incident was declared by the Lincolnshire Resilience Forum (LRF) after streets became submerged in water, leaving scores of properties around greater Lincolnshire flooded.
The couple were able to climb out of the bedroom window and straight into the digger's bucket, where they stayed whilst being driven through the badly flooded road.
