Firefighters rescued 19 people and a dog from a restaurant and a nearby residence in Oxford, Connecticut, on August 18, after life-threatening flash flooding swept through the area. #oxford #connecticut #flood #flooding #shorts This footage, posted by local fire station Beacon Hose, shows emergency crews using an extension ladder to extract a group of people from the flooded Brookside Inn Restaurant on Oxford Road. According to the fire station, crews were called to the Brookside Inn Restaurant after paramedics responding to a nearby medical call reported rising floodwaters with concerns for the building's integrity.