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.

 

History

Honour Board

Honours & Awards

Rivers Base Location

Rivers Members

Rivers SES Operations

Roll Call

Special Moments

Unit Structure

Unit Training

 

 

 

 

 


Disclaimer: This site was developed by Rivers Unit volunteers. It is not a an official ACT Emergency Services Agency (ACT ESA) web site and some views shared in this web site are not necessarily the views of the ACT ESA. Information in this site should not be relied upon to deal with an emergency.

 

Site Last Updated: 01/10/2008