THE BYRON SHIRE & Volume 25 #18 th al y Tuesday, October 5, 2010 e ut Mullumbimby 02 6684 1777 h a Byron Bay 02 6685 5222 Fax 02 6684 1719 e
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[email protected] www.echo.net.au page 18 21,000 copies every week YOU GRAB THE ANKLES AND I’LL GRAB THE WRISTS Children rescued from Looking through the Voyeur floodwaters Police and emergency services work- ers are being praised following a dar- ing rescue which saved two young children from a vehicle washed away by floodwaters at Upper Wilsons Creek. According to a police report, at about 11:15pm on Sunday a 42-year- old woman and her two children, aged six and four, were in a Mitsubishi Outlander when it was washed off a causeway about one kilometre north of the intersection of Wilsons Creek Road and Upper Wilsons Creek Road. The mother managed to get out of the vehicle; however, the Outlander was washed away by floodwaters be- fore she could remove her son and daughter. Police and other emergency ser- vices attended, but due to the height of the floodwaters, it was impossible for vehicles to cross safely. A local resident helped to string a rope across the causeway, enabling a senior constable and two Volunteer Rescue Association (VRA) personnel to cross on foot. The resident then led the police officer and VRA work- ers to the vehicle, which was trapped downstream about three metres from the river bank in extremely fast flow- ing water. A VRA worker climbed onto the Outlander’s roof and removed the four-year-old boy and six-year-old The Voyeur Byron’s Fashion Exposé, a fundraiser for the Byron Community Centre, packed the house full of local fashionistas last Friday night.