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The SES provides immediate assistance to the community during and following emergencies. This includes events such as storms, floods, earthquakes, and bushfires. Volunteers are on call 24 hours a day to deal with emergencies, and SES volunteers are often seen at community events, doing crowd or traffic control, or helping to run the event itself.
Our job is to make situations safe. One of our most common jobs involves removing trees that have fallen and blocked roads or damaged property, and where neccessary, making temporary repairs to that property.
Rescue from heights is practised regularly by SES volunteers. Although our units' role does not often involve this sort of rescue, it is still neccessary knowledge; during bush search and rescue, the lost person may be located at the top or bottom of a cliff, neccessitating different vertical rescue techniques. Some country units are vertical rescue accredited so do cliff rescues on a regular basis.
During major emergencies, such as the Bushfires that sweep Sydney and surrounding areas every few years, the SES may be called upon to assist other services in combating the disaster. In the Bushfires, SES volunteers are required to fell condemned trees, man road blocks and transport equipment and supplies:
In addition, we often provide flood relief to the community, and participate in community events. Each year volunteers of the Willoughby-Lane Cove unit act as Marshalls in the Sydney Marathon, assisting the police with traffic control.
Volunteers of Willoughby-Lane Cove State Emergency Service are volunteers giving up their time to serve their community.
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