Celebrating 50 years of the SES in WA: 1959 - 2009

   

Welcome to the Northshore SES website.

Tuesday, Tuesday 09, 2010

            

The West Australian State Emergency Service (WA-SES) is a division of the Fire and Emergency Services Authority (FESA) made up of approximately 2000 volunteers from every walk of life, who give up their time to help others during emergency situations or when disaster strikes. 

 

The Northshore SES unit covers Perth CBD as well as the following Council Municipalities: Nedlands, Claremont, Cottesloe, Peppermint Grove, Mosman Park, Subiaco, Cambridge and Vincent. Our volunteers are typically trained in senior first aid, rescue first aid, land & air search, storm damage techniques, communications, flood relief, evacuation, SRT (single rope techniquies) and many other support & miscellaneous rescue type operations.  

 

So what do the SES do? There is no such thing as a 'typical' callout. However the more common  types of incidents for our unit include searching for missing persons, storm damage, fallen trees, collapsed ceilings, flooding and buildings damaged by vehicle impacts. Statewide, the SES takes the lead role in countering the effects of, and managing the reactions to floods, cyclones, storms, earthquakes and tsunami threats.    

 

Consider this: Western Australia is approximately 2.5M square kilometers in size. With approximately 2000 SES volunteers, that works out to 1,250 square kilometers per volunteer....!

  

 Need SES assistance?  

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Interested in becoming an SES volunteer in Perth?? 

 

Registrations are now being taken for 3rd Qtr 2010 inductions. Please go to our "Join Us" page or click HERE  to register your details.