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Daily Telegraph
3 days ago
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- Daily Telegraph
Two men rescued after paragliding mishaps in Sydney, NSW
Don't miss out on the headlines from News. Followed categories will be added to My News. A paraglider is 'lucky to be alive' following a gruelling five-hour rescue after crashing into a cliff on the south coast of Sydney on Saturday afternoon. Paolo, a man in his 50s collided into a cliff near Otford Rd at Stanwell Tops about 1pm on Saturday, before plunging down 10 metres and injuring his shoulder. The five-hour rescue operation was conducted as a joint effort between the NSW Police Rescue, SES crews, specialist paramedics and Fire and Rescue NSW, to stabilise and hoist Paolo up the cliff face and through intense bushland to safety. 'I'm so grateful to have this amazing team, they are incredible and yeah, I'll be fine,' Paolo said, while atop a rescue stretcher. 'It was my mistake actually, I did some move. 'Everybody knows where I was, so I was just calm and waited for the rescue'. A paraglider stuck on a perilous cliff face has been rescued. The man in his 50s crashed into the cliff near Otford Rd at Stanwell Tops, on the south coast of NSW, about 1pm on Saturday. Picture: 7News The injured Paolo was taken in a stable condition to St George Hospital about 6pm, by paramedics. 7News reports the authorities thought Paolo would be in a much more serious condition with a rescue chopper arriving to airlift him, but he was instead transported by road to hospital to treat his shoulder injury. Paolo said he 'can't wait to get out there and get paragliding again very soon'. A paraglider stuck on a perilous cliff face has been rescued. The man in his 50s crashed into the cliff near Otford Rd at Stanwell Tops, on the south coast of NSW, about 1pm on Saturday. Picture: 7News In a separate incident, another man was rescued Sunday morning after a 13-hour operation in the Southern Highlands. Emergency services responded to reports a man had fallen four metres onto rocks at the base of Funnels Creek Waterfall at 2pm on Saturday. Police were told a 24-year-old man was with a group of friends and was climbing the 8m ledge before jumping into a Rockpool. The 24-year-old was found to be conscious but suffering injuries to his head, right shoulder and left ankle. The man was retrieved by vertical rope lift when it was determined he could not be winched out by helicopter. A joint effort was conducted with a helicopter transporting a medical crew to the scene to stabilise the man before the retrieval operation was commenced with the police Rescue, NSW ambulance paramedics, and SES members. In the early hours of Sunday, at 3am, the man was successfully extricated and was taken by road ambulance to Goulburn Base Hospital in a stable condition.
News.com.au
3 days ago
- Climate
- News.com.au
Two narrowly escape horror blaze after home in Baulkham Hills, NSW goes up in flames
Two people have narrowly escaped with their lives after a home in Sydney's northwest went up in flames, with pictures capturing the extent of the horrific photos. In the images, the flames can be seen engulfing the Baulkham Hills home on Cameron Ave about 10.30pm on Saturday. The fires were still smouldering into the early hours of the morning. Firefighters arrived to find the building well-consumed by fire, with 9 News reporting it took just over an hour to contain the fire. By the time it was under control, the property was completely destroyed. Two residents managed to get themselves out safely and were checked over by paramedics. It is understood the property had been rented out in the last month, with the current residents effectively rendered homeless. Fire and Rescue NSW will be on the scene for most of Sunday to determine the cause of the blaze, with a potential lead being a log fire burning inside the property at the time. Firefighters have urged residents to have a 'working fire alarm' with the onset of winter and a spike in house fires.
Daily Telegraph
27-05-2025
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- Daily Telegraph
Body found after house fire in Croydon, Sydney
Don't miss out on the headlines from Breaking News. Followed categories will be added to My News. A body has been found inside a burnt-out home in Sydney's inner west, with a second person unaccounted for. Emergency services were called to a fire on Irrara Street in Croydon about 4am on Wednesday. They arrived to a roaring blaze, which caused extensive damage to the home. Once it was extinguished, a body was found inside, and police have confirmed a second person believed to have been in the home is yet to be located. Fire and Rescue NSW deployed six fire trucks and 22 firefighters to extinguish the blaze, but said there were structural issues hindering search efforts. '(The) roof has collapsed concealing hot spots and making search difficult,' FRNSW said in a post on X. A person has died after house fire in Sydney's inner west overnight Emergency services were called to a house fire on Irrara Street in Croydon just after 4am. Irrara Street is in a quiet residential area not far from the train station, with some houses backing on to a nearby reserve, Aden Park. Police have established a crime scene at the home and are probing the circumstances surrounding the fire. Local traffic diversions are in place as detectives continue their investigation. A report will be prepared for the coroner. Originally published as Body found after house fire in Croydon, Sydney
News.com.au
27-05-2025
- Climate
- News.com.au
Recovery efforts ramp up in NSW after deadly floods
Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) crews are continuing to provide specialist assistance to aid communities on the state's north and mid-north coast.
RNZ News
23-05-2025
- Climate
- RNZ News
Four dead as major flooding continues in New South Wales, Australia
More than 350 people were rescued by emergency services on Wednesday. Photo: Supplied / Fire and Rescue NSW Record floods cut a destructive path through eastern Australia on Friday, caking houses in silt, washing out roads and separating 50,000 people from help. Four bodies have been pulled from vast tides of floodwater engulfing parts of northern New South Wales, a fertile region of rivers and valleys some 400 kilometres up the coast from Sydney. Salvage crews were preparing to launch a major clean-up operation as waters started receding Friday morning, surveying the damage from half a year's worth of rain dumped in just three days. "So many businesses have had water through and it's going to be a massive cleanup," said Kinne Ring, mayor of the flood-stricken farming town of Kempsey. "Houses have been inundated," she told national broadcaster ABC. "There's water coming through the bottom of houses, it's really awful to see and the water is going to take a bit of time to recede." State Emergency Service boss Dallas Burnes said more than 2,000 workers had been deployed on rescue and recovery missions. "A real focus for us at the moment will be resupplying the isolated communities," he said, adding that 50,000 people were still stranded. Burnes said rescue crews had plucked more than 600 people to safety since waters started rising earlier this week. person has been confirmed dead and another remains missing as major flooding continues across the New South Wales Mid North Coast. People clambered atop cars, houses and highway bridges before helicopters winched them away. Although the floods were easing, Burnes said the stagnant lakes of muddy water still posed a threat - including from snakes that may have slithered into homes in search of shelter. "Floodwaters have contaminants. There can be vermin, snakes. You need to assess those risks. "Electricity can also pose a danger as well." A car submerged in a flooded area in the New South Wales town of Taree. Photo: Supplied/Instagram On Thursday afternoon, police recovered the body of a 60-year-old woman in her car at Brooklana, 30km west of Coffs Harbour. NSW Police Northern Region Commander David Waddell said the woman had been travelling in convoy with a police officer in a sedan on Wednesday night near Dorrigo, when the cars reached ankle deep floodwaters. "The officer stopped and told the woman he wasn't continuing, and the woman in the 4WD decided to continue," Commander Waddell said. "He gave her his phone number and told her to continue with caution and not to enter floodwaters." The woman travelled another 17km and rang 30 minutes later in trouble, but police were unable to find her on Wednesday night. Her body was located on Thursday afternoon (local time). "Obviously the police officer who spoke to the woman is very traumatised and we are wrapping support services around him," Commander Waddell said. "It's just a tragic circumstance." Investigations into the death are ongoing. Earlier Thursday, emergency service crews also found the body of a man in floodwaters near Rosewood, 4km west of Wauchope. Authorities started searching for the man, who is believed to be in his 30s, on Wednesday night following reports he had become stuck in floodwaters while driving. It comes after police found the body of 63-year-old David Knowles in a flooded home on North Moto Road in Moto, north-east of Taree, on Wednesday afternoon. His daughter told the ABC her father had been found in ankle deep water after likely suffering a medical incident. She said she had been told her father was approached by an SES evacuation crew on Tuesday, but told them to prioritise another family further upstream. He could not be located afterwards. "He would give you the jumper on your back if you were freezing, he was just like that," Knowles's daughter said. Water covers Hastings River Drive at Port Macquarie. Photo: ABC Mid North Coast / Emma Siossian The storms have dumped more than six months' worth of rain over three days, the government weather bureau has said, smashing flood-height records in some areas. "These are horrific circumstances," Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Friday as he travelled into the disaster zone. "The Australian Defence Force will be made available. There's going to be a big recovery effort required," he told local radio. "There's been massive damage to infrastructure and we're going to have to all really pitch in." In the town of Taree, business owner Jeremy Thornton said the "gut-wrenching" flood was among the worst he had seen. "It is pretty tough, we've had a few moments but you have to suck it up and push on," he told AFP on Thursday. "We are reliving it every second - hearing the rain, hearing the helicopters, hearing the siren." Locals spotted dead cows washing up on beaches after swollen rivers swept them from their pastures inland. The government has declared a natural disaster, unlocking greater resources for affected areas. Torrential rain has pelted the area from the Central Coast to Grafton during the week, with Taree, Port Macquarie, Wauchope, Kempsey, Macksville and Coffs Harbour among the hardest hit. The Macleay River is moving at speed under the Kempsey Bridge. Photo: ABC/Emma Rennie Rain totals include: Along the coastline the SES has 25 evacuation warnings still current. NSW Premier Chris Minns told the ABC there was a "massive emergency service contingent on the Mid North Coast". "There are 2500 emergency service workers, including 2200 SES volunteers and professionals that are onsite," he said. "Over 500 vehicles and boats, 13 helicopters, hundreds of drones, so this is a major operation." An estimated 50,000 people have been warned to prepare for isolation, as widespread areas of rain, with locally intense falls, have led to new evacuation warnings across much of the region. Evacuation centres are operating across New South Wales. Taree insurance broker Jeremy Thornton told ABC News Radio that getting flood insurance was "impossible" in some parts of the region. "There are only three companies we can use that do householders' [insurance] for our area," he said. "Two of them didn't quote because of the postcode and the one that did quote - it was half their annual wage for the year to get insurance." But Thornton said the insurance companies were not to blame. "It's just that this is what happens and it's happening too often," he said. "They can't keep up and something's gotta give in that space." From the arid outback to the tropical coast, swaths of Australia have recently been pummelled by wild weather. The oceans surrounding Australia have been "abnormally warm" in recent months, according to Australia's government weather bureau. Warmer seas evaporate more moisture into the atmosphere, which can eventually lead to more intense rains. Although difficult to link to specific disasters, climate change is already fuelling more extreme weather patterns, scientists warn. Flood modelling expert Mahdi Sedighkia said this week's emergency offered "compelling evidence" of how climate change could affect regional weather patterns. - AFP, with ABC
