The 2016 Queen’s Birthday Honours List has been like Christmas coming early for one Northshore volunteer, although is not presents up for grabs. Its serious recognition and of course, entitlement to the post-nominal ESM. On Monday 13 June 2016, the Governor General, Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Retd) released this years Honours List which identified approximately […]
Search crews from Northshore SES were activated early on Monday morning to assist in the search for three men, all aged in their 20s, reported missing after being last seen around 10am on Sunday in Jurien Bay, 270km north of Perth. The men were found this morning after spending a cold wet night on Wedge Island, just […]
Rescue crews from Northshore SES were called into action yesterday morning after a 4WD careered into a travel agency in Cottesloe, injuring two people. The driver of the 4WD, a man in his 8o’s, and a woman who worked at the Flight Centre store, aged in her 30’s, were both taken by ambulance to Sir Charles Gairdner […]
Hundreds of people drive past every day, and most would not even know that the amazing tunnels of the Leighton Battery are there. But thankfully the Northshore SES unit does know of the tunnels existence, and the site has proven time and time again to be a fabulous training ground for its volunteers. Hidden away […]
Search crews from Northshore SES joined the search effort for 37 year old Sean Mitchell on Wednesday night, concentrating on the Freshwater Bay area of Mosman Park. Field Search Controller James Hines worked closely with WA Police and directed search crews at the location to ensure that the search was carried out effectively and efficiently. Mr […]
11 May 2016 is National Wear Orange Wednesday (WOW Day). On WOW Day people across Australia will be wearing orange as a way to say thanks to our dedicated SES volunteers who help their communities prepare for, respond to and recover from emergencies. Show your support for the SES by wearing orange today, Wednesday 11 May. […]
Police and SES volunteers searched into the night last night after an elderly woman was reported missing from her Nollamara home. Wendy Ann Pyke, 76, had last been seen at about 2.15pm yesterday in the area of Lemana Road and Kindra Way. Police were concerned for Ms Pyke’s welfare because she suffers from dementia. Northshore SES received a request for […]
It has been a few years since an event, or a sequence of events, has led to a new record being set @ Northshore SES in relation to callout numbers. However last Monday, the drought was broken, with 4 totally separate callouts in 4 hours, something that we are certain has never occurred previously. Local […]
Northshore SES is once again bursting at the seams with the completion of the 2016 Intake buffering membership levels to capacity. Local Manager Northshore SES Nick Elliott said that the 22 new recruits had successfully made it through a new two stage selection process, specifically structured to minimise the number of members that dropped-out early in […]