By Jesse Graham
TWO Yarra Valley girls will have an exciting story to tell their schoolmates, after they drifted around four kilometres down the Yarra River over the weekend and were flown to safety.
Warburton Police Senior Constable Rob Firns said that a 13-year-old and a nine-year-old from Seville went into the Yarra River on Sunday, 8 January, as part of a family day out.
However, the two girls missed an area 200 metres downstream where they were meant to leave the water, and continued down the river.
The girls’ distressed parents reported them missing an hour and a half later, and Warburton and Yarra Junction Police, assisted by the Air Wing, searched the river for the pair.
Sen Const Firns said the two girls were found safe, albeit tired, about four kilometres downstream, near Don Road.
“Because of the lack of vehicle access where the girls were located, the Air Wing has … landed in a nearby paddock, collected the two and actually flown them back to the Doon Reserve Caravan Park, where they were reunited with their concerned parents, safe and well, nil injuries,” he said.
“They’ve got a pretty good story for show and tell when they get back to school.”
