Firefighters set up a human chain using a rope to rescue a couple and their grandchild from a ute stranded in a flooded stream south of Ruatoria last night.
When rescuers arrived the family were trapped and sitting in floodwater inside their vehicle as the water surged just below the window sills.
They were crossing a ford to get to home as ex-tropical Cyclone Hale lashed the region when they became...
