As the week drew to a close and people prepared for a relaxing long weekend, emergency services were kept busy with a string of dramas.
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A report of a plane crash in Kangaroo Valley on Wednesday saw Ambulance, Police and Rural Fire Service personnel scrambling to search for wreckage. It turned out to be a false alarm but the coordinated response was very impressive as crews combed the area from where the report had come.
Thursday morning saw a real emergency on the Princes Highway at Meroo Meadow with a truck crash that blocked the highway for several hours.
That afternoon, crews were sent to another crash on the Princes Highway near The Wool Road in which a young girl was injured.
Tragedy struck at Manyana on Thursday afternoon, when a man drowned. Despite best efforts at CPR, he could not be revived after being dragged from the water.
Friday morning saw the customary long weekend traffic descend on the region so we thought it a good idea to keep a live blog updating road conditions. You can find it here. Anticipating heavy traffic the RMS deployed incident management crews to untangle jams at key intersections and chokepoints.
