Firefighters evacuated an elderly woman from her home on Thread Lake after it became surrounded by floodwaters and filled her crawl space. The 90-year-old lives on Maybury Avenue with Thread Lake in her backyard. Heavy rains and melting snow on frozen ground this week caused lake levels to rise dramatically. Around 2 p.m., water seeped into the woman's crawlspace and knocked out her furnace. So Flint police called for firefighters to help rescue her from knee-deep water. The fire department sent a truck up to her house and firefighters carried her into it before driving her to higher ground. She was taken to an area hospital for a precautionary evaluation.