Volunteers from the Northshore SES unit went sky-high (literally) last weekend in order to make safe a large roof on a disused industrial building. With the help of the Perth CLP, FRS and SES crews worked together to make the situation safe and secure the roof until a long term solution could be arranged by […]
On the 15th June 2016 the Northshore SES unit celebrated its 40th anniversary with an unveiling of a new History Board and Honour Roll. Special guests included the Minister for Emergency Services, the Hon Joe Francis MLA, the Member For North Metropolitan Region Hon Elizabeth Behjat MLC, the Fire and Emergency Services Commissioner Wayne Gregson […]
Search crews from the Northshore SES unit were called in this afternoon to assist WA Police with combing the coastline and dunes north of Burns Beach in the search for a man who went missing in Fremantle early on Monday morning. Daniel Alexander McCartney, 40, had been swimming in the Fremantle Bathers Beach area just after […]
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 […]
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 […]
Today we celebrate Wear Orange Wednesday (WOW Day). WOW day is a day of recognition and appreciation towards the dedicated work of State Emergency Service (SES) volunteers across Australia. The focus of WOW Day is to encourage the community to show their support in a very simple but highly visible gesture by wearing the colour orange, the colour worn […]
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