Last night on the way home I was listening to the news on the radio and they were reporting on the storms that hit Sydney on Friday afternoon. “One apartment block at Hillsdale had to be evacuated after it was struck by lightning.” “Hey”, I thought “That’s the place I’ve just been fixing.” and the [...]
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Today our SES unit had a training day with the Police rescue Squad and the Surf Lifesaving Association rescue helicopter. We were training on the sandstone cliffs just near the helicopter base at La Perouse, just inside the Botany Bay National Park. When the Police arrived, they discovered that their key to the gate didn’t work [...] I have just come back from Ballina where I was part of a contingent from the Sydney Southern Region of the State Emergency Service. We were the second task force to be dispatched to the area after strong winds and torrential rain had lashed the area over the previous week. As the rain moved down [...] I have never seen a storm warning quite like it. Normally the map on the BOM site shows an amorphous blob with smooth edges covering a large area. This time it was a thin squiggly line hugging the coast from Kurnell to Palm Beach. There was some rain and fierce lightning at our place, but nothing [...] What an eventful Sunday. The day began with a visit to North Fort. This is a section of the old School of Artillery on North Head which is now a museum. As well as a display of the history of Australian artillery, there is also access to the gun emplacements and associated tunnels that where built [...] YouTube have cut the audio from my video of the Rescue Competition due to copyright reasons it would seem. The vision is still there, but the sound has gone. To get around this problem I will host the movie on my videos page and point the You-Tube viewers there. (I originally had the video embedded on [...] The 2007 Rescue Competition This video was placed here after YouTube disabled the audio on their site due to copyright reasons. var myQTObject = new QTObject(“http://www.alternateroute.com.au/wp-content/video/RescueComp.mov”, “vvq-958-quicktime-1″, “400″, “300″); myQTObject.addParam(“autoplay”, “false”); myQTObject.addParam(“controller”, “true”); myQTObject.addParam(“scale”, “aspect”); myQTObject.write(); A mass casualty exercise. var myQTObject = new QTObject(“http://www.alternateroute.com.au/wp-content/video/RescuePractice.mov”, “vvq-958-quicktime-2″, “400″, “300″); myQTObject.addParam(“autoplay”, “false”); myQTObject.addParam(“controller”, “true”); myQTObject.addParam(“scale”, “aspect”); myQTObject.write(); A training exercise to test the skills of the State Emergency Service was almost called off mid stream when a massive storm hit the area. A stormwater drain being used for pumping and sandbagging practice, rose over a metre in less than ten minutes during the deluge. Tarping practice, which was being done on a large [...] These are not two things that you would normally associate with each other, however they came together last weekend. As part of a Team Leader course, we had an exercise where we had to make a truck from Lego that would carry a piece of cement for 5 metres, and convince the judges to purchase [...] Back in March my SES unit attended a Rescue Competition and I videoed the event. The week before, we had carried out a mass casualty exercise and I videoed that as well. I have recently posted both videos to YouTube and have now discovered how to link them to my blog. So here they are. Mass Casualty [...] |
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