Incredible chopper rescue amid NSW floods as death toll rises to four

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Incredible vision captured the moment a woman was airlifted from rising floodwaters near Taree as emergency crews responded to widespread flooding. Emergency services remain on high alert across NSW with multiple communities isolated and at least four lives lost. This video includes ACM-produced voiceover powered by AI.

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00:00Hello, anyone in there?

00:03Extraordinary footage has shown the moment rescue crews in the Westpac Lifesaver rescue

00:08helicopter found a woman trapped in rising floodwaters near Taree.

00:12The rescue unfolded after her son raised the alarm, prompting a swift aerial response where

00:17she was found and winched to safety.

00:19Hello, anyone in there?

00:36Hello.

00:37Stay there for a second.

00:46It came as New South Wales flood crisis deepens, with the death toll rising to four today,

00:59May 23rd, after a man in his 70s was found in a submerged car at Nanna Glen.

01:05Emergency services remain on high alert, with communities isolated and record rainfall continuing

01:10across the state.

01:16And when the young man was dead in the east and the sky where created a drunken storm

01:17been brought down.

01:18What the flame was down on the mountain is?

01:19The values of the water impact, with the ground.

01:20Many people who can't breathe.

01:21They went right away for the water.

01:23American and the sand of water.

01:24The water is basically in the middle of the над 앉輪 where their own fare.

01:26The way they're walking from all these things.

01:27The rain is the middle of the mountain.

01:28The rain has been apparently in the middle of the day, they're going to see a cliff at night.

01:29Well, they're walking from the north.

01:30Can they see a cliff of the hill.

01:31On a ladder?

01:32They're walking from the hill.

01:33They're walking from the up-to-rub.

01:34Yes, they've gone through to the night.

01:35This along the hill.

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