{"id":3118,"date":"2026-10-22T14:03:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T09:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3118"},"modified":"2026-10-22T14:03:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T09:03:59","slug":"australian-tv-reporter-rescues-man-from-sinking-car-during-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3118","title":{"rendered":"Australian TV reporter rescues man from sinking car during floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>An Australian \u200btelevision reporter and a bystander rescued \u200ca man from a car as it was engulfed by floodwaters on \u200bThursday, footage of the incident showed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Will \u200bMurray, a journalist with Australia\u2019s public \u2060broadcaster ABC, was reporting on \u200bflooding north of the city of Brisbane \u200bin Queensland state when a man drove a four-wheel drive through water. It then stalled \u200band started to sink, the \u200bABC said.<\/p>\n<p>Murray and another man swam out to \u200cthe \u2060car and pulled the driver from the vehicle, moments before it was completely submerged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pair of them definitely saved \u200bthat man\u2019s \u200blife,\u201d \u2060said ABC camera operator Liz Pickering, who witnessed the incident, \u200baccording to the broadcaster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo doubt \u200babout \u2060that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>About 170 mm of rain had fallen in the town of \u2060Morayfield \u200bon Thursday when the \u200bincident took place, the ABC said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Australian \u200btelevision reporter and a bystander rescued \u200ca man from a car as it was engulfed by floodwaters on \u200bThursday, footage of the incident showed. Will \u200bMurray, a journalist with Australia\u2019s public \u2060broadcaster ABC, was reporting on \u200bflooding north of the city of Brisbane \u200bin Queensland state when a man drove a four-wheel drive through water. It then stalled \u200band started to sink, the \u200bABC said. Murray and another man swam out to \u200cthe \u2060car and pulled the driver from the vehicle, moments before it was completely submerged. \u201cThe&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}