INCREDIBLE: Moment girl, 15, clinging for life to a tree in a raging river after falling out of her kayak is airlifted to safety by police helicopter

Dramatic footage has been released of the daring rescue of a stranded teenage girl trapped in a tree in a flood-swollen river at the foot of Sydney's Blue Mountains.

The 15-year old had been out for a kayak adventure with her father when she fell out the canoe into the cold dark waters of the Nepean River on Saturday afternoon.

She was swept away by the current but managed to grab onto a tree in the middle of the river - swollen by last week's torrential rain - where she was became stuck with no escape.

Her frantic father desperately tried to rescue her with his kayak but called in emergency services when the fast-flowing water and hazards in the water meant he was unable to get close enough to reach her.

NSW Police scrambled their rescue helicopter crew around 5pm and on Wednesday released the amazing video of the incident.

It shows the police chopper team racing to the scene near Emu Plains in a desperate bid to reach the girl before sunset and darkness hamper the search for her.

Incredibly they manage to spot her through the thick foliage and branches, clinging to the branches of a fallen tree, and begin the rescue mission as dusk fell.

An officer in frogman gear is winched down several hundred feet, dizzily spinning in the wind as he drops, before splashing into the water and swimming against the current to the shivering, terrified girl.

He managed to strap the girl into the rescue harness before the pair are winched back up high into the air to the safety of the helicopter.

She can be seen clinging to the police officer in fear as he gently manoeuvres her through the helicopter hatch and inside to the sanctuary of the aircraft.

The chopper then immediately flies to a nearby landing zone where the girl's distraught father was waiting for the pair to be reunited before she was assessed by paramedics at the scene.

A NSW Police spokesman added: ' The girl was flown to a waiting NSW Ambulance a short distance away and assessed by paramedics. She was uninjured.'

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Wow

Great country

Lovely

Amazing country..

My country would rather airlift cows than her citizens.

If na naija this kind thing happen, na Oyo you be

Good rescue job there

Normally... the problems on planet Earth is becoming too alarming

You get luck

A country where the system works. If na Nigeria, na there she go pae

Righteousness2:
That was an Incredible Lift by the Police officer.

This is a Pictorial evidence of the GREAT Lift about to Hit this Earth.

In the Midst of all the Chaos and Choking Disaters ravaging Humanity, JESUS Christ is about to Break through the Sky and Lift all whose names are in the Book of Life out of this Sinking Ship.

Get Ready Folks! It is gonna Happen in a Twinkling of an Eye.
All you need to be in that lift is Humbly Surrender to JESUS Christ and Come into a Genuie relationship with HIM.

Weyrey ni bobo yi lol

Beta country

Righteousness2,must you convert everything to fit into your religious madness?

This is a country where human life matters more than cow's.

Righteousness2:
That was an Incredible Lift by the Police officer.

This is a Pictorial evidence of the GREAT Lift about to Hit this Earth.

In the Midst of all the Chaos and Choking Disaters ravaging Humanity, JESUS Christ is about to Break through the Sky and Lift all whose names are in the Book of Life out of this Sinking Ship.

Get Ready Folks! It is gonna Happen in a Twinkling of an Eye.
All you need to be in that lift is Humbly Surrender to JESUS Christ and Come into a Genuie relationship with HIM.

guy if u go die, die make u free us abeg

Thank God she was saved. This can only happen in countries were lives are valued. Not in nigeria

Great

It is well

Holiness2100, HolinessForever, Righteousness89, Righteousness2…

Multiple monikers, one person.

Let’s thank Seun Osewa of nairaland for this gainful employment.

Seen

Better country.

If you ever want a reason to leave Nigeria, this is it

Better country joor

I swear

Weyrey ni bobo yi lol[/quote]

Impressive.

This is the kind of country I want to live in

She dies if it was in Northern Nigeria

Aboki nation of cows