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.

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01:22We'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

01:50resource headed up today.

01:52In the past two or three days we've had well over 300 mil of rain, never seen anything

01:56like it.

01:57So our fences are still down, communications cut, power's off, animals that need help have

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

02:06Get up there, take the veggies, one way or another we're getting up the hill today.

02:23This is not right, it's still closed.

02:27And then we ran Mooney Town, I'll just sit here and I'll just see what you see here.

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