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<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : 23 - month - old baby ... (Telegraph)...</span>
The 23-month-old was swept from her mother's arms as the wall of water hit Grantham, east of Toowoomba, and has not been seen since. Jessica's uncle Darren Keep yesterday told the story of his brother Matthew's frantic struggle to save his six-months pregnant wife Stacey and their three children as the torrent smashed through the brick wall of their Railway St home, knocking them from their perch on the kitchen bench.Matthew's mother-in-law Dawn Radke was also swept from the house and is yet to be found, while the body of his mother Pauline Magner, 65, was found on Tuesday at Gatton.Mr Keep said Stacey was sucked from the house while holding Jessica and managed to grab a downpipe, but lost her grip and was washed onto the nearby railway line. "Her legs got caught in the sleepers and she was drowning with her baby in her arms," he said.Mr Keep said the force of the torrent then tore baby Jessica from her mother's arms."The moment Stacey realised she didn't have her baby anymore she gave up and went under water but within moments the helicopter pilot rescued her and took her to hospital," he said.That moment will forever be imprinted in the mind of chopper pilot Mark Kempton, who winched the hysterical mum to safety, along with 27 others in just two and a half hours."I looked over my shoulder and saw her sitting on the floor of the aircraft and she was just devastated. It was heartbreaking," he said."It doesn't matter how many people you save, you always want to get someone else one more and that's really frustrating," he said, through tears.As the wall of water hit, Matthew Keep was sucked through the garage and past his mother-in-law Dawn, who was hanging onto a ride-on lawnmower.He could not reach her and was washed down to a neighbouring house, where he helped another family clamber to safety on their roof and was rescued by helicopter.Mr Keep later returned to the house, where a 1.8m tide had swept through, and miraculously found his daughter Maddison, 5, in the loungeroom and son Jacob, 4, hanging onto the top of the shower screen."(Jacob) was scared of water. He was having trouble learning to swim. When Matthew got him, he said: 'I held on daddy, I held on'," Darren Keep said."We think mum (Pauline Magner) must have put him there. She would have been trying to save the kids' lives before her own life."http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...70661409643755
<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : 23 - month - old baby ... (Telegraph)...</span>
The 23-month-old was swept from her mother's arms as the wall of water hit Grantham, east of Toowoomba, and has not been seen since. Jessica's uncle Darren Keep yesterday told the story of his brother Matthew's frantic struggle to save his six-months pregnant wife Stacey and their three children as the torrent smashed through the brick wall of their Railway St home, knocking them from their perch on the kitchen bench.Matthew's mother-in-law Dawn Radke was also swept from the house and is yet to be found, while the body of his mother Pauline Magner, 65, was found on Tuesday at Gatton.Mr Keep said Stacey was sucked from the house while holding Jessica and managed to grab a downpipe, but lost her grip and was washed onto the nearby railway line. "Her legs got caught in the sleepers and she was drowning with her baby in her arms," he said.Mr Keep said the force of the torrent then tore baby Jessica from her mother's arms."The moment Stacey realised she didn't have her baby anymore she gave up and went under water but within moments the helicopter pilot rescued her and took her to hospital," he said.That moment will forever be imprinted in the mind of chopper pilot Mark Kempton, who winched the hysterical mum to safety, along with 27 others in just two and a half hours."I looked over my shoulder and saw her sitting on the floor of the aircraft and she was just devastated. It was heartbreaking," he said."It doesn't matter how many people you save, you always want to get someone else one more and that's really frustrating," he said, through tears.As the wall of water hit, Matthew Keep was sucked through the garage and past his mother-in-law Dawn, who was hanging onto a ride-on lawnmower.He could not reach her and was washed down to a neighbouring house, where he helped another family clamber to safety on their roof and was rescued by helicopter.Mr Keep later returned to the house, where a 1.8m tide had swept through, and miraculously found his daughter Maddison, 5, in the loungeroom and son Jacob, 4, hanging onto the top of the shower screen."(Jacob) was scared of water. He was having trouble learning to swim. When Matthew got him, he said: 'I held on daddy, I held on'," Darren Keep said."We think mum (Pauline Magner) must have put him there. She would have been trying to save the kids' lives before her own life."http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...70661409643755