NSW flood crisis: hundreds rescued, wildlife saved as death toll climbs

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Floodwaters inundated Taree, Wingham, Glenthorne, and Barrington Tops as four people were confirmed dead and hundreds continued to be rescued thanks to emergency services across NSW.

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00:20And then I'll pass it to you guys, just put all your packs of work.

00:24Yeah, I would just put all this stuff in here.

00:42I won't shut up at the next time I'll come up with this.

00:54I won't shut down.

01:00That's all.

01:02I'll be right back.

01:04I won't shut up at the next time.

01:06I'll be right back.

01:08I won't shut down.

01:18We've got a whole team up on top of the hill at Aussie Ark that's essentially been isolated

01:46there for a number of days now and they've done incredible work but we've got far more resource

01:51headed up today. In the past two or three days we've had well over 300 mil of rain, never seen

01:56anything like it so our fences are still down, communications cut, power's off, animals that need

02:01help have been helped and being helped and really what we need now is just our boots on the ground,

02:05get up there, take the veggies, one way or another we're getting up the hill today.

02:16It's not right, it's still closed. And then we ran Mooney Town, I just sit here and I'll

02:35see what he's here.

02:36Yeah.

02:37Yeah.

02:43Yeah.

02:43He's here.

02:45Yeah.

02:47He's here.

02:47Yeah.

02:48Yeah.

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02:54Awesome.

02:54Yeah.

02:55Yeah.

02:58Yeah.

02:58All right.

03:00Go now.

03:03Yeah.

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