Floods Swamp Towns in Victoria as Kayaker Found Safe and Well

Published on January 9, 2024

The owner of an empty kayak found floating down a river in eastern Victoria is safe and well as the state’s flooding emergency intensifies. Victorian SES Chief Officer of Operations Tim Wiebusch said authorities were alerted to an empty kayak floating down the Mitchell River near Dargo on Tuesday, Jan. 9. Police later confirmed the kayak’s male owner was found safe and well at Dargo about 6pm. In central Victoria, a man risked his life by jumping into floodwaters to rescue a stranded 74-year-old woman. Mitchell Smith spotted the woman in Bendigo Creek at Elmore and swam out to help, after her car was swept off a road and washed about 100 metres downstream in raging waters on Monday night....

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