People trapped by rising waters

EMERGENCY services were kept busy yesterday with multiple people rescued from floodwaters by swiftwater teams.

Queensland Fire and Emergency Services officers and SES volunteers were called to retrieve a person who was trapped inside a structure by rising flood water on a rural property on Old Mulgowie Road.

Kayne Muller (pictured) called for help about 7am, but it took several hours before emergency services could navigate the floodwater safely.

Mr Muller said he had an alarm set every hour so he could get up and check the floodwater that was creeping closer to his home.

The Laidley resident had spent less than a year in his Old Mulgowie Road home with his Great Dane companion Azaura, and the pair had already got through two major flooding events earlier this year without incident.

By about 5am, water had entered his house and in an hour it was up to his knees.

“We had to walk through floodwaters and it was past my chest, almost up to my neck,” he said.

“One of the swiftwater rescuers had to put my dog on his back.”

On the north side of the town, swift water technicians deployed an inflatable platform and rescued three people trapped in a car on Old Laidley Forest Hill Road. The motorists called for help shortly after 8am after they became stuck in rising floodwater.

Later, a call for help came from people stuck in a car in rising floodwater near the White Road and Patrick Street intersection. Three QFES crews got them to safety.