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AUSSIE FLOOD HEROES ‘WE TOOK IN 60 STRANDED LOCALS’

As a Queensland town was hit by the most terrifying flood in a century, one family made sure nobody was left out in the cold.

Alicia Populin and her husband Kurt welcomed more than 60 stranded locals, nine dogs, three cats and a guinea pig into their home to

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