Posted March 09, 2018 17:46:24

More than 200 homes have been inundated with floodwaters near the north Queensland town of Ingham as rising rivers in the area near their flood peak.

Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES) Commissioner Katarina Carroll said her crews were just getting onto the ground in Ingham.

"We have an indication that 45 houses have been inundated in north of Ingham, some 130 south of Ingham and some 40 in Halifax," Ms Carroll said.

"We've had 108 SES jobs in the last 24 hours and a lot of that is obviously to do with tarping and sandbagging, and we've dealt with 60 per cent of those."

Commissioner Carroll said there had been seven rescues in the far northern region and about 10 in the northern region, around Ingham and Halifax.

"Four of those were probably due to silly behaviour, but some of those are genuine people where their houses have started to be inundated and we've just removed them from their houses to a place of safety," she said.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said authorities expect more homes to be inundated in the Ingham region.

"We have had the mayor on the phone to explain to us they are happy with the level of cooperation," she said.

Ms Palaszczuk said she had also been briefed on a group of more than 70 school children stranded on a school camp near Tully.

"They are safe, they are in good spirits," she said.

"The teachers … have been excellent and all the neighbouring properties around that area are actually helping out the children as well.

"But of course that is an area of prime concern for us and we will not move them until it is safe to do so."

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