Sunday, April 2, 2017

Floodwaters sweep away house minutes after family rescued from roof

In a dramatic rescue, a family is saved from the roof of their home minutes before it is swept away in floodwaters.

The dramatic rescue played out in the early hours of Saturday morning as the flooded Albert River devastated a street at Luscombe.

The mother and two children had waited on the roof for hours in the dark.

Neighbours directed a crew of three SES personnel — Chris Holloway, Claire Browning, and disaster management officer Jim Ferguson — to their aid…

Source: Floodwaters sweep away house minutes after family rescued from roof – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)


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