Nursing home residents, some in stretchers, have been evacuated from flood-threatened Cooma at the foot of the NSW Snowy Mountains.
Paramedics began evacuating the elderly residents from Sir William Hudson Memorial Nursing Home at 9am (AEDT) on Thursday, the NSW Ambulance Service said in a statement.
By 12 pm (AEDT) three ambulance crews had evacuated 33 opf them to the Cooma Services Club and three stretcher patients to Cooma Hospital.
Another 10 residents were being evacuated to nearby nursing homes in Bombala and Delegate.
A community bus was helping transport more mobile residents.
Another 500 people from Cooma have been ordered to leave 370 homes and businesses, while several hundred Goulburn residents have been evacuated.
An evacuation warning is in place for parts of Queanbeyan.
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