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Anne South, (pictured) safely hoisted her daughter Kirralee and her six-day-old granddaughter into the roof cavity of her home in Eugowra, in central-west NSW, on Monday morning when the water inside the house rose to chin-height
A grandmother has been dubbed a hero after she bravely lifted her daughter and grand-child into the roof of her home after it became inundated with floodwaters.
Anne South safely hoisted her daughter Kirralee and her six-day-old granddaughter into the roof cavity of her home in Eugowra, in central-west NSW, on Monday morning when the water inside the house rose to chin-height.
The 68-year-old also saved her friend, who can't walk because of a degenerative issue, by helping her onto a bench.
Ms South, a retired nurse, had put a stool on a table and opened a manhole in the ceiling to safely carry her family into the roof.
But tragically as her own home was being submerged by floods, Ms South spotted her 85-year-old neighbour Ljubisa 'Les' Vugec, outside
