00:00A man in his 60s was winched to safety by police air wing from the roof of his shed
00:04on the edge of the Cumberland River during catastrophic flash flooding in Victoria's
00:09southwest on Thursday, January 15, 2026. Life-saving Victoria helicopters also winched
00:16a man to safety after floodwaters reached his hiking spot on a hilltop about one kilometre
00:21northwest of the Cumberland River. Another group of four hikers, including an 88-year-old
00:28and a dog, were guided to the Great Ocean Road by a tactical flight officer who had been
00:33dropped onto the terrain by police air wing. Meanwhile, the Victorian search and rescue
00:39team coordinated the recovery of two four-wheel drives bogged west of Lawn. Air wing pilots
00:45spent much of the afternoon lowering officers down to swamped vehicles in floodwaters to
00:51check if there were occupants in need of assistance. Combined efforts from the police, ambulance
00:57and life-saving rescue teams managed to find lost hikers in Woolamay, a capsized catamaran
01:04in Rye, and a paddleboarder in Peril offshore in Edithvale.
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