Homes were flooded in Melbourne and other cities in Australia’s southeast on Friday with rivers forecast to remain dangerously high for days. The Victoria State Emergency Service said on Friday it had carried out 108 flood rescues in the past 48 hours.
State Emergency Service commander Josh Gamble said complacency was the main reason for people getting into trouble.
Evacuation orders were also in place for the town of Rochester on the Campaspe River, north of Melbourne, and the central Victorian towns of Carisbrook and Seymour on the Goulburn River. In the island state of Tasmania, south of Victoria, north coast residents were moving to higher ground with river levels forecast to rise.
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