Multiple rescues as police advise residents in Queensland’s west to enact emergency plans, while firefighters battle blazes in Victoria
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A teenager is lucky to have survived being sucked into a drain by flood waters as a rain-hit state braces for more wet weather.
The 15-year-old boy was pulled into a stormwater drain in far north Queensland, prompting a warning from authorities with showers set to continue.