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Rivers SES
Operations
Rivers Unit is
operational 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365/366 days a
year. The thing that excites a lot of members about the SES
and Rivers is that you never know what sort of emergency the
next response is going to be to. It could be virtually
anything!
River SES participates in a full range of ACTSES operations
including:
- storm and water damage
- tree damage
- land search (both forensic and missing person)
- air search
- bushfire support
- support to the ACT Fire Brigade
- support to the ACT Ambulance Service
- support to the Australian Federal Police
- support to multi-agency emergency responses
- interstate support to various emergency combat agencies
and incident types.
Notable Past Operations
Some of the notable operations that Rivers Unit has been
involved in include the Canberra Hospital implosion, the
Thredbo landslide, the search for the 4 missing snowboarders
in Kosciuszko National Park, the Sydney hail storms, the
Canberra bushfires (both 2001 and 2003), the Indonesian
Embassy white powder incident, the Victorian bushfires (Dec
06), and the Newcastle/ Hunter Valley floods.
For details of incidents/ emergencies that Rivers has been
involved in please visit our history and roll call sections.
Rivers SES
Operations
Stages
of Unit Readiness & Action (ASCAS)
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Stage |
Action |
Description |
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1 |
Availability |
Rivers Unit
Duty Officer (DO) determines Unit member availability
and advises to SES Duty Officer ASAP.
Member
availability is usually requested via SMS and e-mail (if
time permits). All members are required to respond to
these requests ASAP- be the answer ‘yes’ or ‘no’.
Some of the
reasons that Unit avail may be obtained include severe
incoming weather and a known incident in which the SES
may become involved. |
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2 |
Standby |
After member
availability has been gotten a team is determined, if
the incident is may impact in the within the next few
hours, the team goes on to STANDBY. This means that the
team members have their gear ready to go, are by their
phone and don’t undertake any actions that will mean
that they are unavailable, such as the consumption of
alcohol. |
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3 |
Stand
Up |
An incident is
imminent and is likely to impact, a team may be
requested to ‘stand up’ at the (Rivers) Shed by either
the Rivers Duty Officer or SES Duty Officer (via Rivers
Duty Officer). This is a pre-emptive action and there
may be no jobs outstanding. At this stage, the team is
waiting at station and is available and ready for
tasking. |
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4 |
Call
Out |
An incident
has impacted. There are now actual jobs waiting. The
team is deployed to a specific job or jobs by CommCen or
the SES Incident Management Team (IMT). |
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5 |
Action |
The team is
undertaking specific jobs |
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0 |
Stand
Down |
The team is no
longer required (either for the day or because the there
are no more jobs outstanding).
Team returns
to station/ base/ Shed and repacks, restows and
reconstitutes resources (vehicles, trailers, equipment).
After all
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Note: Should an incident impact suddenly, or
there is a job/ in existence without any warning / notice, the
Standby /Standup stage may be bypassed altogether. It may go
straight from Availability to Call Out.
Rivers SES Operations Glossary
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ACRO |
Full Term/ Explanation |
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AIIMS |
Australasian
Inter-agency Incident Management System.
AIIMS is the
name and type of incident control system used by all ACT
emergency services, except for the AFP, which uses a
similar system known as ICCS. |
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ASAP |
As soon as
possible |
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BoM |
Bureau of Meteorology |
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CommCen |
CommCen is the
central communications centre in the ACT Emergency
Services Agency (ESA) that supports the ACT SES and
other emergency services. |
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DO |
Duty Officer |
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ICCS |
Incident
Command & Control System.
Similar to
AIIMS, but with a few subtle differences. |
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ICS |
Incident
Control System |
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IMT |
Incident
Management Team.
During a
large-scale or complex incident, the ACT SES may set up
an incident management team. The job of the IMT is to
manage and run the operation, ensuring that all
operations, logistics and planning aspects of the
incident are coordinated. |
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SMEAC |
The type of
briefing given by the incident, Unit or team leaders.
Stands for:
S = Situation
M = Mission
E = Execution
A = Admin & Logistics
C = Command, Control,
Communications
(S =Safety
Q = Questions)
See Rivers
SMEAC template for more information. |
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STW |
Severe Thunderstorm Warning |
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SWW |
Severe Weather Warning |
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