Emergency food flown to campers cut off by swollen creeks

SLSQ Gold Coast supervisor Nathan Fife said the City of Gold Coast organised for food and fresh water to be delivered to the hangar on Tuesday morning and the helicopter did the rest.

“It is the back of a Canungra property where the 11 campers are trapped by floodwaters. The water was a metre over the gauges and they crossed 11 creeks to get out to where they were,” he said.

“I think they [campers] just got caught out a bit, perhaps they just didn’t think that much rain was coming to the hinterland and would make the creeks run as high as they have.

“It was a tricky job for the pilot, the campsite was on a bit of a hill, there was muddy ground and a lot of trees and powerlines around.

“We dropped a fair bit of food and water to them…