Peter is the son of Bombala lady, Dianne Ingram, who is naturally very proud of the story, which tells of him rescuing a teenage girl from a storm drain.

The article, titled ‘High and dry teen meets her rescuer’ and written by Jacqueline Williams, appeared as follows –

‘Josie Norton-Clement was reunited yesterday with the man who saved her life.

Josie, 14, was still shaken from being swept into a stormwater drain in Griffith on Tuesday and travelling 400m before she was able to signal for help.

But she was relieved to be on the other side of the drain yesterday, in one piece and on dry land.

As the ACT Fire Brigade was en route to where Josie slipped and fell into a stormwater drain in Griffith shortly after 4.30pm on Tuesday, her saviour Peter Ingram noticed a small hand waving furiously from the depths of another drain, 400m from their original port of call.

ACT Fire Brigade district officer Mike Cochrane said, “The crew that we dispatched was actually our Hazmat crew, they were the closest crew available and they were driving to the point where she had actually gone in the water.

“But as they were driving there, one of the crew members [Mr Ingram] saw her arm waving from another drain.”

The team of four, David Slater, Robert Collins, Station Officer Anthony Briggs and Mr Ingram, immediately stopped and removed the grates of the drain. It was Mr Ingram who pulled Josie to safety from the fast-running water.

“We didn’t know if it would be her, but we were hoping it would be ... we would never have thought she would travel this far,” Mr Ingram said.

“As we pulled her out she was pretty frightened, but very happy to see us, put it that way.”

Mr Ingram said finding Josie was the highlight of his career.

“I’ve never done anything like this before,” he said.

The Hazmat team was expecting the worst as they were called to the original Griffith location.

“With the way the rain was coming, we were half expecting to find whoever it was down the lake,” Mr Ingram said.’