Melbourne, Australia – Melbourne, Australia (AP) – Flood water registration On the east coast of Australia, they have left four dead people and a missing, the authorities said on Friday when the rain decreased over the disaster area.
About 50,000 people have been isolated by floods along the coast of the state of Nueva Wales del Sur north of Sydney after days of heavy rain. The low pressure meteorological system brought by the flood had moved more to Sydney and its surroundings on Friday.
Four bodies of floods have been recovered in New South Wales since Wednesday. Three of the victims had led to the waters of the floods, while the body of a man had been found in the veranda of his flooded home.
The last victim was a man of about 70 years whose body was found in a car in Floodwater on Friday near Coffs Harbor, said a police statement. The car had left the road.
A 49 -year -old man is missing after walking near a road flooded in Nymbaida on Wednesday night.
Prime minister Anthony Albanese and the Prime Minister of New South Wales, Christopher Minns, inspected the devastated communities, some of which had been flooded by the highest floods registered.
Minns praised emergency and volunteer services for rescuing 678 people from the waters of floods in recent days, including 177 in the last 24 hours.
“It is a surprising and heroic logistics effort in which, in very difficult circumstances, many volunteers are in danger of rescuing a complete stranger. And in the next few days and weeks, we will listen to dozens of stories of locals that are taken out of the impossible and desperate situations,” they told MINS reporters in Maitland in the flood area.
“Without the volunteers, we would have had hundreds of deaths and we are in a deep and deep gratitude for those who offered their time as volunteers,” Minns added.
Despite the relaxing rain, the state commissioner of emergency services, Mike Wassing, said the crews were still looking for flood waters potentially increasing because the water continued to flow into the basins.
“We still have rescues of active floods that still enter the system and we are dealing with those in case of case,” Wassing said. “We have seen that the tempo falls, and that is something good.”
The mayor of the Shire Council of Bellingen, Steve Allan, said the landslides and damaged roads and bridges were complicating the process of reaching isolated communities in his rural region of the local government southwest of the port of Coffs.
“We have woken up with the blue skies, which is a great thing,” said Allan.
“Our rivers are slowly retreating and I think we are probably transition from the recovery phase response phase this morning,” he added.
