Northern Territory emergency service workers are used to rescuing people from the water. But they’re typically helping people at sea – not in flood waters.
Sen Const Ben Parfitt found himself escorting 27 schoolchildren from a caravan park that was waist-deep in water last weekend when Katherine was inundated by flood levels not seen since the 1990s. Then he was involved in rescuing a couple and their German shepherd from the roof of a four-wheel drive. That vision has gone viral.
