As the NSW floods dealt their damage, choppers rescued people

Rescue crews flew through stormy conditions to extract trapped flood victims and deliver urgent medical care

At first light, the clouds hanging low across the valleys, Tommy Lee Lewes and his rescue chopper crew were hurtling through heavy rain to one of the northern rivers’s most isolated regions.

Amid widespread devastation, they had been tasked with rescuing a man in a critical condition in a remote part of Upper Wilsons Creek, an area of dense bushland cut off completely by the flood waters.

Time was against them. A venomous snake driven from the rising water had bitten the man more than six hours prior.

 

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