A Courier reader was delighted to spot one of Wee Waa’s former police officers Ben King in the pages of the Daily Telegraph at the weekend. The story reported two hero police officers, Senior Constable Ben King and Adam Davis, used a boogie board to rescue an elderly woman who was moments away from being submerged by floodwaters inside her Lismore home. The pair praised the woman’s ‘amazing’ will to live but their actions were nothing short of amazing too. Constable King dived inside the flooded home of 93-year-old Mary, who was floating on a mattress with only a gap of about 20cm between the ceiling and the water level, which was only just allowing her to breath – reported the Telegraph. Together, the police officers used a boogie board to pull Mary out through a small gap in the window.
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