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Cooktown runs low on supplies as it waits for Wujal Wujal residents to be airlifted in
A community escaping flood waters in far north Queensland is set to be evacuated to a town that is low on water and has only three days of food left, AAP reports.
We are ourselves low on food and supplies. We’ve still got enough tucker for another three days. We’ve also got water restrictions at the moment because our water treatment plant was flooded.
We are running around trying to get food, blankets, that sort of stuff. We will see what the state government can organise – it will be a tough ask.
Wujal Wujal have copped it very badly. Some of those poor people have been on the roof of their houses for two or three nights with no power, no communication, no food probably.
That’s a lot of trips going backwards and forwards. But the access road down there has been washed away.
The only way to come is by air. The river is running too strong to think about barges or boats.
We have engaged through the disaster management network with all the councils and we are actively planning to be able to re-supply food, water and medical supplies into all of the isolated communities.
To those folks who are still waiting for that assistance, help is definitely on its way.
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