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This Policeman Kept His Post Despite the Flood, Ontario, 1974
As first responders, police officers are forced to work in all kinds of conditions. Even during a massive flood, someone has to make sure crimes don’t get committed. This photograph was taken on the corner of Dickson St. and Ainslie St. N. in downtown Galt (now called Cambridge) in Ontario, Canada. After several weeks of rain, plus lots of melted snow in the spring caused the Grand River to flood in May of 1974. Thankfully, no one was killed. But the flood cost the city millions of dollars in damages. According to The Record, the man in the photograph is named Jack Shuttleworth. He was interviewed, and explained that he was standing there to make sure the stores did not get looted. “The whole idea was to be a deterrent so nobody would be picking this stuff off,” he said.