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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge on hither duplicy Ellen Drive with One New

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Speaker 2: Seven after five will go to this landslide.

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Speaker 3: The surf Club has just been evacuated near the mount

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Speaker 3: This is where some of the relatives of those who

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Speaker 3: are currently missing under the debris from the landslide that

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Speaker 3: happened this morning. They were gathering at the surf club

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Speaker 3: just being evacuated. The search and rescue operations still going

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Speaker 3: on now. Mark Mitchell is the Emergency Management Minister, joins

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Speaker 3: us live Mark, good evening, Hi, Ryan, what's.

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Speaker 2: Happening with the surf club?

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Speaker 3: Is there a worry that there are potent there's the

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Speaker 3: potential for more slips here.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the geoscientists a worried that that's there right that

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Speaker 4: that part of the Mountain Bay slip and they're concerned

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Speaker 4: about the surf club. So it's a precautionary evacuation of

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Speaker 4: the surf Club at the moment. And yes, there with

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Speaker 4: all the families and we have moved them to different locations.

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Speaker 2: How many families are we talking about.

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Speaker 4: I don't want to get into numbers because you know,

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Speaker 4: we're still sorting through this it and so I just

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Speaker 4: don't want to. You you can imagine the high degree

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Speaker 4: of sensitivity. You know, what the families are going through

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Speaker 4: at the moment, is their loved ones, a lot of

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Speaker 4: uncertainty and we're still working police are still working through

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Speaker 4: a process in terms of who was on the camp,

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Speaker 4: who's still missing. So I just don't want to get

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Speaker 4: into numbers.

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Speaker 2: No, fair enough.

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Speaker 3: So at this stage they're still not clear on how

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Speaker 3: many people might have left the camp and not told

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Speaker 3: people or not checked out. So there's that uncertainty there.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, and that did happen and there was a

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Speaker 4: few that which is completely totally understandable. But it's a

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Speaker 4: matter of now going back checking CCTV camera footage and

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Speaker 4: just working that out and just trying to get a

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Speaker 4: very clear picture of who might be who might have

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Speaker 4: been impacted in court by that.

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Speaker 2: S How are the family's doing. Oh, it's terrible, mate.

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Speaker 4: I mean you could imagine when you love ones you

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Speaker 4: don't know where they are there and they're just the

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Speaker 4: stress and the anxiety of waiting around and they get

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Speaker 4: an enormous amount of support. Everyone's trying to cheer that

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Speaker 4: burden with them. But yeah, as you can imagine, it's

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Speaker 4: very very tough. It's somber.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 4: Our first responders are just quite simply doing an outstanding job.

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Speaker 4: As you can imagine, it's a really difficult environment to

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Speaker 4: operate in and but they're really getting on with the work.

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Speaker 2: And they're doing a very good job. How much land

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Speaker 2: came down, it must have been a hell of a lot.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's significant, so you'd be quite shocked when you

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Speaker 4: see it. There's a lot of earth that has moved

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Speaker 4: and you can just see the enormity and the size

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Speaker 4: of the job facing. Our friends and our use are

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Speaker 4: operators who are outstanding. They've got the right equipment there.

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Speaker 4: We've had the dogs over the site and there's a

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Speaker 4: massive amount of resource of work going into starting to

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Speaker 4: try and clear and rescue the people that are under there.

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Speaker 2: What are the dogs therefore they'll.

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Speaker 4: Detect that trained you know obviously through scent, their scent

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Speaker 4: to be able to detect people and have they I

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Speaker 4: don't know. I haven't had the results back on that.

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Speaker 2: I just know they put the dogs over Mark what about.

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Speaker 3: We heard from our reporter who's there actually about a

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Speaker 3: woman who was going around and warning people, trying to

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Speaker 3: get people out of the camp, you know, wake up,

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Speaker 3: leave because this is an unsafe place. Have you heard

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Speaker 3: of stories like that, you know, people doing heroic things,

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Speaker 3: amazing things.

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Speaker 2: No, I haven't heard. No, I haven't.

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Speaker 4: That information hasn't come to me. But certainly over the

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Speaker 4: last few days, in the last twenty four hours, there's

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Speaker 4: definitely been some heroic people, members of the public, our

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Speaker 4: first responders, police and firefighters. It's been a tough you know,

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Speaker 4: forty eight hours, there's no doubt about that, and especially

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Speaker 4: up north we we had you know, isolated communities that.

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Speaker 2: Were earlier in the week as well.

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Speaker 3: Does the recovery operation, the rescue operation, does that just

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Speaker 3: keep going until they find people?

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Speaker 4: Now?

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Speaker 2: Like, is it going through the night twenty four to seven? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it does.

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Speaker 4: Because we haven't only got the site at the Mount,

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Speaker 4: we've also got a site at Welcome Bay two where

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Speaker 4: one of the slips has come through, taking the house out.

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Speaker 4: Two of the people are being recovered, they're okay, but

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Speaker 4: we've still got two people missing.

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Speaker 3: Mark Mitchell, who's the Emergency Management minist to appreciate your

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