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Trapped Aussie Family Saved After Using A Drone To Help Them Send A SOS
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An industrious Far North Queenslander used a drone to fly his phone up into the air in order to send a message to save his stranded family from rising creek water.
On Monday night, four adults and a six-month-old baby had travelled to look at Blencoe Falls, a stunning waterfall in Queensland, reports the ABC.
Drone phone, excavator and chainsaws used in rescue of family stranded during torrential downpour
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Queensland SES personnel and police rescued the stranded group from the Kirrama Range Road around midday on Tuesday.
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A Far North Queensland man has flipped the tradition of scrawling SOS into the sand and instead launched a request for help from far overhead.
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A group of four adults and a baby became stranded in bad weather on the Kirrama Range Road in far north Queensland
With no mobile phone reception, a man attached his mobile phone to a drone to send an emergency text message
North Queensland hit with intense rainfall causing flooding as BOM issues severe storm warning
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Parts of north Queensland have been hit by massive downpours in the aftermath of ex-Tropical Cyclone Imogen, with one town receiving 100 millimetres in just an hour.
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Ingham received 122mm of rain in one hour on Wednesday
Major flood warning in place for the Herbert River, which has received about 400mm since Sunday