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 the 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 techniques) and many other support & miscellaneous rescue type operations.
So what does 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 kilometres in size. With approximately 2000 SES volunteers, that works out to 1,250 square kilometres per volunteer....!
