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Rachael Ward and Cassandra Morgan

Woman reunited with Victorian flood heroes

Marlene Wing-Quay with her rescuers, SES volunteers Trent Ross and Braden Verity in Bendigo. (Brendan McCarthy/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

After being thrown into raging floodwaters in the dead of night, Marlene Wing-Quay thought her life was at risk until she saw two beaming headlights coming towards her.

The 65-year-old's car had been inundated just metres from her home of 30 years in central Victoria, forcing the Woodvale resident to wade through waist-deep water for more than an hour during the state's flood crisis in October.

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