VOLUNTEERS have stepped in to help the local community during the recent floods. On Friday evening Scarborough and Ryedale Mountain Rescue Team (SRMRT) were called in to help people after water was reported seeping from under a brick section of the flood defences near Wallsgate Lane off Commercial Street in Norton. A spokesperon for SRMT said : “The Local Resilience Forum and Environment Agency on site wanted to reinforce the wall with sandbags and deploy high volume pumps into the area to pump water back into the river. “The challenge with this was that the fields between the railway line and the river were already flooded.