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Drone phone, excavator and chainsaws used in rescue of family stranded during torrential downpour


Drone phone, excavator and chainsaws used in rescue of family stranded during torrential downpour
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JanJanuary 2021 at 5:52am
Queensland SES personnel and police rescued the stranded group from the Kirrama Range Road around midday on Tuesday.
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A Far North Queensland man has flipped the tradition of scrawling SOS into the sand and instead launched a request for help from far overhead.
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A group of four adults and a baby became stranded in bad weather on the Kirrama Range Road in far north Queensland
With no mobile phone reception, a man attached his mobile phone to a drone to send an emergency text message

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