New South Wales ambulance officials say more than 20 people have been injured following an incident involving two army vehicles near Lismore. The injured have been transferred to Lismore Base Hospital. It is the latest incident on Northern NSW flood swept roads. The body of a 61-year-old man has also been recovered a day after he was swept away while trying to cross a bridge.
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00:00Across northern New South Wales, the rivers are running and the waters are rising.
00:09Alfred's downgrade from a cyclone to a tropical low, not enough to prevent the need for dozens
00:15of flood rescues.
00:16Please do not be complacent.
00:18At the moment our crews are out, tending to trees down, power lines down, working with
00:23the energy companies.
00:24This emergency is not over.
00:26The rivers are full, the rain is continuing.
00:30The heaviest rainfall overnight was in Dorigo.
00:33The northern Tablelands town has now received more than 750mm over the past five days.
00:40The body of a 61-year-old man who went missing nearby when his ute was swept into floodwaters
00:46has now been found.
00:47His vehicle has entered a flooded bridge and was washed off.
00:52This highlights the public messaging, do not enter flooded roads, bridges or causeways.
00:59Also here to help, a fleet of specialist drones.
01:04These can be used to make life-saving deliveries.
01:07Potentially if someone's caught in floodwaters, sitting on top of their car, we could potentially
01:12fly over to them and drop a life jacket or something like that.
01:15They're also helping rescue crews keep watch over rising rivers.
01:20In Lismore today, locals were anxiously eyeing the Wilsons River from the sidelines.
01:24Kind of nervous, it's weird to see it that high.
01:30Parts of the town are already underwater, including a school that's been closed since
01:35the devastating floods of 2022.
01:37But the wild weather didn't stop a new little one from entering the world overnight, while
01:42wind and rain battered her parents' home.
01:45We were very aware that she might come through this cyclone, so we nicknamed her Baby Alfie
01:52and said that it'll probably take a cyclone for her to make her grand entrance.
01:56Her actual name is tipped to be Billie.
01:59The full impact of this weather event is not yet known, but plans are already underway
02:03for the recovery stage, which will focus on the so-called three R's.
02:08The road network, rubbish removal and resupply.
02:12The lessons that I took out of 2022 will serve us well today, because not only do I
02:16know what worked, I know what didn't work.
02:19Work on the recovery is already getting underway.