Typhoon Dolphin brought torrential rains to east China's Zhejiang Province on Sunday and Monday, triggering widespread flooding in Wenzhou and Taizhou, and leaving roads submerged and residents stranded.
Local fire and rescue teams launched immediate emergency operations in the hardest-hit areas.
In Yongjia County of Wenzhou, firefighters responded on early Monday after an elderly man was trapped in fast-rising floodwater, with water already above his waist.
Rescuers navigated a rubber boat through the inundated road and ferried him to safety.
Late Sunday night, an ambulance transporting a senior patient with fractures stalled on a flooded road, stranding six people including medical staff and family members.
Firefighters maneuvered a rubber boat to the vehicle, evacuated all six, and rushed the injured elderly patient to hospital for treatment.
In Taizhou's Yuhuan City, rainwater flooded a low-lying ground-floor home on Sunday evening, blocking the door and trapping an octogenarian with limited mobility inside.
Rescuers brought in a rubber boat, forced open the door, and moved the man and his relatives to safety.
In Tiantai County of Taizhou, five people were pulled from two stranded vehicles on a fully submerged road.
In Taizhou Bay New Area, firefighters joined medical workers to carefully transfer a weak patient suffering hemoptysis and seizures onto a ambulance.
Dolphin, the 13th typhoon of the year, made two landfalls in Zhejiang Province on Sunday, according to the National Meteorological Center (NMC).
The NMC renewed a blue typhoon alert Monday morning, forecasting that the storm would move northwest at 15 to 20 kilometers per hour and gradually weaken.
China has a four-tier color-coded weather warning system, with red representing the most severe, followed by orange, yellow and blue.
Firefighters rescue trapped people as Typhoon Dolphin batters coastal Zhejiang
