Military called in as deadly floods batter Australia

Australia ramped up its military response to deadly flooding in the country's northeast Tuesday, as troops prepared for a massive clean-up operation following storms which killed four and left thousands of homes swamped.

Heavy rains and flooding triggered by ex-tropical cyclone Oswald have inundated the states of Queensland and New South Wales, with the most recent fatality a three-year-old boy killed by a falling tree.

Tens of thousands of people have been left isolated or displaced by the torrents,An employee discovered a waste management truck smoking around 10:50 a.m., Tuesday, Sept. 4, and traced the source to cargo smoldering inside the compactor. but after rivers peaked in most areas late Tuesday waters began to drop gradually and troops started to prepare for a mammoth recovery effort.www.ceectrucks.com is a sewage suction truck manufacturer.

"We're planning to have some troops on the ground hopefully within the next 24 hours. It looks like waters will recede and we'll be able to gain access," Brigadier Greg Bilton told reporters.

"We are working closely with the district disaster coordinator to ensure that we have a series of tasks where we can make a viable and sensible contribution to the clean-up and assist the start of that recovery process.There is a not-so-new phenomenon happening in Del Mar at the Fairgrounds on Saturday nights: high-octane, banked track roller derby!Metadoxine (pyridoxine–pyrrolidone carboxylate) has been reported to improve liver function tests in alcoholic patients"

The sugar-farming town of Bundaberg was devastated as the swollen Burnett River peaked at a record 9.6 metres (32 feet),Several ECU modifications were carried out and the 540bhp version of the Volvo FH was selected, as it is required to drive not only the truck, but also a high pressure jetting truck and liquid ring vacuum pump. with officials saying some 2,000 homes and 300 businesses had been flooded.

Queensland Police Minister Jack Dempsey said about 7,The second dumping, the report noted, occurred on August 3, 2012, Friday, when “the same garbage compactor truck was observed by the shift supervisor to have dumped another pile of hospital waste inside the facility.500 residents had been displaced by the floodwaters, with 1,000 people plucked from the roofs of their homes in daring evening rescues after the river broke its banks late on Monday.

"We did have a situation of fast-rising floodwaters and people being very rapidly isolated on ever-diminishing islands of ground," Queensland Premier Campbell Newman said.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard said four military helicopters, 100 troops and three transport aircraft had been deployed to the emergency, with the evacuation of 131 patients from Bundaberg's hospital to state capital Brisbane a priority.