Video will play in Play now Don't auto playNever auto playA Clevedon family of six are being evacuated by boat and police helicopter from their flooded home. The house, on the Clevedon-Kawakawa Bay Rd was flooded and the helicopter was keeping overhead surveillance after the road into the area was cut off overnight by the overflowing Wairoa River. Grant Henson says he wants his wife, four children and two dogs to get to dry land. The family has been forced to watch sheep on their property drown while waiting to be evacuated, Henson said. Earlier, three people and a dog were rescued from floodwaters by a Coastguard inflatable craft.

Source: New Zealand Herald March 07, 2017 22:09 UTC