Heroic Teen Swept Away in Australian Floodwaters After Saving Sibling

(By Meredith Jessup, The Blaze) - The city of Toowoomba has been hit with tsunami-like flooding as rushing waters continue to snake their way to the Australian coastline. One of the flood’s latest victims, a teenager named Jordan Rice, is being hailed as a hero after he urged rescuers to save his younger brother first, just moments before the raging waters swept him and his mother away.

Jordan, brother Blake and the boys’ mother, Donna, were caught in the rushing waters on Monday. When the family was forced to climb onto the roof of their car, a Good Samaritan managed to save 10-year-old Blake as Donna and Jordan, 13, tried to cling to a nearby tree.

According to Jordan’s father, the boy couldn’t swim. “(The truck driver) went to grab Jordan first, who said, ‘Save me brother’. I can only imagine the fear coursing through his body,” the boy’s father said.