Sandbagging efforts at the Mid-Murray RFS facility near the Deniliquin aerodrome on Saturday.
The Mid-Murray Rural Fire Service and Deniliquin-Conargo State Emergency Service Unit had an amazing turnout after it requested assistance to fill sandbags on Saturday.
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More than 60 members of the community answered the call and spent hours helping, working so hard that at one point the emergency services ran out of sand and had to obtain more.
Sandbaggers returned on Sunday to do it all again.
The RFS said that, “as small communities do, the sand once again began arriving, the empty pallets from local businesses once again were piling up and the people kept on shovelling”.
The SES and RFS has thanked those who kindly donated food and drinks to the sandbaggers.
Emergency services personnel move pallets of filled sandbags at the Mid-Murray RFS centre.
On Sunday, more sandbag filling took place, with local groups working alongside SES and RFS volunteers.
Among them was a team of more than 40 Motiv8 Health & Fitness Centre boot campers and their partners.
Motiv8 had more teams go out yesterday and further teams are set to do so this afternoon from around 5pm until 6.30pm.
The stockpile of sandbags ready for distribution from the Mid-Murray RFS Deniliquin site.
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