Bathroom flooded and tripped electrics - what do I do?

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Upstairs bathroom flooded .

Shower was used by relative (who’s got significant disabilities so wouldn’t have realised), left shower curtain out of bath whilst showering, went into bathroom ten mins later to realise floor was covered in an inch or so of water .

I’ve dried what I can, opened window, heating on full blast upstairs, but it’s tripped the light switches and has obviously gotten right through the ceiling to the floor below - as the carpet is damp and there’s water coming through the smoke detector directly below .

Its a council house, I’ve rung them up and asked them for advice - they said an electrician will be round within 2 hours to make the electrics safe - I presume we don’t touch anything until then? Only the lights are
tripped - so I don’t know if it’s safe to eg charge my phone?

They can’t get a clerk of works round until tomorrow at the earliest, the girl on the phone wasn’t sure of what else to do - said they’ll check the electrics and they’ll see if it needs repairs tomorrow .

Im guessing as well that we shouldn’t use the bathroom upstairs until someone’s been round tomorrow? Sounds daft but I’m slightly panicked about the ceiling collapsing in if we do?

I would dry everything and try resetting at the fuse box. It'll probably be fine.

(and your ceiling won't collapse from 1" of water, don't worry)

Many years ago my lovely youngest son over flowed the sink. Flowed into kitchen below.
Electrician advised us to leave the electrics in the room below off for 2 to 3 days to dry out.
To open the windows as much as possible.
Then we had to repaint the ceiling.
We left then off for 3 days and were fine.

Thank you , council sparkie came
round and said smoke detector needs to dry out, will need to keep the lights off throughout the house for about 12-24 hours or so - can use the rest of the electrics no problem .

They’re sending someone round tomorrow morning to check the ceiling/floor as it’s slightly spongy but hopefully be OK. The ceiling itself isn’t actually wet to touch, only the smoke detector which I suppose should be reassuring . Heating on full blast upstairs and all the windows are wide open .