‘Baby was swept from her pregnant mother’s arms’
Mark Kempton turned to look at the woman he’d just rescued, expecting to see joy in her face but instead was met with unspeakable horror. Only seconds before she had been dragged to safety, she’d lost her grip on her baby, snatched away by the unrelenting brown torrent that hit Grantham, Queensland.
Kempton doesn’t want to be branded a hero, even though he risked his life as his own wife and children were being evacuated from their flooded home. His rescue work alongside his crew saved the lives of 28 people.
