Following hours of heavy rain, students and staff at Westernport Elementary School in western Maryland were rescued from the school after flash flooding forced them to the second and third floors.

Flooding in rural western Maryland has forced the evacuation of an elementary school as downtown homes and businesses have been inundated with rising floodwaters in Westernport

Rescue boats were used to evacuate an elementary school in Allegany County, Maryland Tuesday as heavy rains brought flooding to the region, the county’s emergency services department said.