{"id":50595,"date":"2024-04-07T15:58:18","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T05:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=50595"},"modified":"2024-04-07T15:58:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T05:58:18","slug":"hundreds-rescued-after-flooding-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=50595","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds rescued after flooding in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Widespread flooding in Australia left hundreds needing to be rescued after a natural disaster was declared in regions across New South Wales on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Intense rainfall at the start of the weekend saw around 300 homes evacuated in north-east Sydney, emergency services said.<\/p>\n<p>Floodwaters had caused widespread damage across the state in a very short amount of time, federal minister for emergency management Catherine King said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The New South Wales government is continuing to assess the damage and understand the impact of this disaster,&#8221; King added.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews had performed about 200 flood rescues since Friday, said state minister for emergency services Jihad Dib, as some regions were left cut off by damaged or flooded roads.<\/p>\n<p>Around 5,000 volunteers had worked through the night helping those affected, he added.<\/p>\n<p>State emergency commissioner Carlene York said 60 community warnings remained in place for regions affected by the flooding.<\/p>\n<p>Disaster support had been triggered by officials in a dozen areas to help cover clean-up costs and pay for emergency accommodation. It was the region&#8217;s seventh flood in 18 months.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have repeatedly warned that climate change amplifies the risk of natural disasters such as floods, bushfires and cyclones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Widespread flooding in Australia left hundreds needing to be rescued after a natural disaster was declared in regions across New South Wales on Sunday. Intense rainfall at the start of the weekend saw around 300 homes evacuated in north-east Sydney, emergency services said. Floodwaters had caused widespread damage across the state in a very short [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1068],"class_list":["post-50595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-hundreds-rescued-after-flooding-in-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}