Flood rescue wins chopper crew an international award
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Flood rescue wins chopper crew an international award
From ABC News
By Meg Purtell
A Queensland rescue helicopter team has received a major international award for its work during the deadly flash floods in January.
The Emergency Management Queensland crew saved 43 people in the Lockyer Valley, in southern Queensland, after a wall of water devastated the region.
They have received the 'Rescue of the Year' award at a conference in the United States.
Brisbane-based pilot Peter Row led the operation and accepted the award in Florida.
He says they have dedicated the win to the survivors and those killed in the floods.
A Queensland rescue helicopter team has received a major international award for its work during the deadly flash floods in January.
The Emergency Management Queensland crew saved 43 people in the Lockyer Valley, in southern Queensland, after a wall of water devastated the region.
They have received the 'Rescue of the Year' award at a conference in the United States.
Brisbane-based pilot Peter Row led the operation and accepted the award in Florida.
He says they have dedicated the win to the survivors and those killed in the floods.
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Why does it take an American agency to recognise chopper heroics, and hand out awards to Australians?? Is it because they act decidely faster than the Australian authorities?
O.K., I got it, now... the Australian authorities will wait until the blokes and the event are nearly forgotten... then belatedly hand out the awards... just like they took 37 yrs to proffer all of our earned 'Nam medals... and how they've just decided to hand out posthumous awards to the WW2 blokes who escaped from the Japs, but who were either shot, doing so... or caught, and brutally executed...
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International award for Queensland flood saviours | The Daily Telegraph
O.K., I got it, now... the Australian authorities will wait until the blokes and the event are nearly forgotten... then belatedly hand out the awards... just like they took 37 yrs to proffer all of our earned 'Nam medals... and how they've just decided to hand out posthumous awards to the WW2 blokes who escaped from the Japs, but who were either shot, doing so... or caught, and brutally executed...
WWII diggers to receive gallantry awards | Herald Sun
International award for Queensland flood saviours | The Daily Telegraph
