NSW SES in Newcastle, New South Wales | Emergency rescue service

NSW SES

Locality: Newcastle, New South Wales

Phone: +61 132500

Address: 75 Elizabeth Street 2297 Newcastle, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.ses.nsw.gov.au

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25.01.2022 Issued at 8:23 am Monday, 26 October 2020. Severe Weather Warning for HEAVY RAINFALL and DAMAGING WINDS For people in parts of Hunter Forecast District.... HEAVY RAIN HUNTER COAST (INCLUDING CENTRAL COAST) Weather Situation: A trough of low pressure off the coast is bringing heavy rain and vigorous southeasterly winds. HEAVY RAINFALL which may lead to FLASH FLOODING is expected through the morning. DAMAGING WINDS, averaging 60 to 70 km/h with peak gusts in excess of 90 km/h are possible on the coastal fringe The heavy rain and damaging winds are expected to ease during the afternoon. Locations which may be affected include Newcastle, Gosford, Maitland, The Entrance, Woy Woy and Kulnura.

25.01.2022 Crews are hitting the ground again this morning cleaning up after Mondays Severe Thunderstorm. A total of 560 requests for assistance have been received by NSW...SES #Volunteers in the #Hunter. City of Newcastle Unit received 381 of these calls, Lake Macquarie received 57, Maitland City received 34. Over 100 Jobs are still outstanding in the Newcastle area. Crews from NSWSES, Fire + Rescue and NSWRFS will be out in force today finalising these requests. If you logged a job on Monday evening and no longer require assistance, please call 132500 and cancel your request. Thank you for your patience as we work through these requests.

24.01.2022 Deer oh deer oh deer! If only Rudolph and all the other reindeer had listened to Santa’s instructions on the Christmas reconnaissance run last night. Even SANTA knows you should never drive through floodwater! Just as well the SES were on hand to rescue them! Don’t worry everyone SANTA and all the reindeer are safely back at the North Pole drying in front of a warm fire, where Mrs CLAUS is giving them all a nice warm hot chocolate and a stern talking to about driving through floodwater!

23.01.2022 2PM OPERATIONAL UPDATE | 18TH NOVEMBER 2020 __________________________________ More than 390 calls have been received by NSWSES Volunteers in the Newcastle area. Crews from NSWSES, Fire + Rescue NSW and NSWRFS have completed 70% of these tasks and will continue to work through today and into tomorrow if required to finalise all tasks. ... More than 60 Volunteers from SES Units from the Hunter & Central Coast are currently on the ground supported by a number of other Emergency Service personnel. If you have a job logged with us and no longer require assistance, please call 132500 and advise our call takers that you wish to cancel your job. IMAGES: NSWSES LOCATION: SHORTLAND

21.01.2022 Our volunteers are out helping those in our community that have called for help. If you require Newcastle SES call 132500

21.01.2022 This years RUOK has the theme of continuing the conversation. The next question is just as important after asking if someone is OK.

19.01.2022 It's been a BIG day for our volunteers, lots and lots of jobs to do

18.01.2022 Severe Weather Warning for HEAVY RAINFALL For people in North West Slopes and Plains and parts of Mid North Coast, Hunter, Central Tablelands, Central West Slopes and Plains, Upper Western and Northern Tablelands Forecast Districts. Issued at 11:00 am Monday, 21 December 2020.... WIDESPREAD RAIN DEVELOPING ACROSS NORTHERN NSW DURING MONDAY A slow moving trough over northern New South Wales will interact with increasing tropical humidity to bring widespread rain to northern parts of the state during Monday. A transient low pressure system may develop within this trough on Tuesday, but the system will weaken and move away to the east by Tuesday evening. HEAVY RAINFALL, which may lead to FLASH FLOODING and RIVERINE FLOODING, is expected to develop across the Northwest Slopes and Plains and parts of the Central West Slopes and Plains and Upper Western forecast districts from Monday morning. Rainfall will increase and spread east, reaching the Hunter and parts of the Northern Tablelands and Mid North Coast, during Monday afternoon and evening. Conditions are currently forecast to ease during Tuesday morning. Embedded thunderstorms may locally enhance rainfall rates, leading to intense rainfall and potentially life threatening flash flooding. Further river rises are likely, and a Flood Watch is current for several river catchments. For more information see www.bom.gov.au/nsw/warnings. Locations which may be affected include Tamworth, Gunnedah, Narrabri, Walgett, Lightning Ridge, Scone, Coonabarabran Armidale and Maitland. The State Emergency Service advises that people should: * Don't drive, ride or walk through flood water. * Keep clear of creeks and storm drains. * If you are trapped by flash flooding, seek refuge in the highest available place and ring 000 if you need rescue. * Be aware that run-off from rainfall in fire affected areas may behave differently and be more rapid. It may also contain debris such as ash, soil, trees and rocks. * After bushfires, heavy rain and the loss of foliage can make the ground soft and heavy, leading to a greater chance of landslides. * Stay vigilant and monitor conditions. Note that the landscape may have changed following bushfires. * For emergency help in floods and storms, ring your local SES Unit on 132 500.

18.01.2022 FLOODING IN NEWCASTLE UPDATED 9PM: Wet weather has caused flooding in a number of areas in and around Newcastle. SES crews successfully performed nine r...escues and received 151 calls for assistance. Sunday afternoon rainfall reports included 70mm at Williamtown in two hours and 74mm in two hours at Newcastle TAFE. TRAFFIC UPDATES: www.livetraffic.com FROM THE NSW SES Do not drive through floodwater. Our volunteers are on the road working hard to assist our community. If you see our volunteers at work, please use caution as you pass. If you need the SES you can call on 132 500 NSW SES urges people in the impact locations to: Consider collecting essential items in a waterproof bag: food, water, warm clothes, medications, valuables, important documents, toys for children in case you need to leave. Keep your pets close by, always know where they are. Clean up yards and secure moveable objects such as trampolines, BBQs and outdoor furniture. If your life is at risk, call Triple Zero (000) immediately For NSW SES - City of Newcastle assistance phone 132 500 Grant Minns - at Arthur Street in Mayfield

18.01.2022 Our volunteers are at the Jesmond Neighbourhood Centre enjoying Harmony Day

17.01.2022 Have you met Pearl? Pearl has been volunteering with our Newcastle Unit for more than ten years and is looking forward to wearing Orange for another ten years.

15.01.2022 It looks like the bus rescue was just a warm up for our Newcastle crew https://www.southcoastregister.com.au//daring-early-morni/

11.01.2022 Our volunteers are on the road working hard to assist our community. If you have called 132 500, we are trying to work through the calls as quick as we can. If you see our volunteers at work, please use caution as you pass

11.01.2022 #GetReady Tamworth, Gunnedah, Narrabri, Walgett, Lightning Ridge, Scone, Coonabarabran, Singleton, Muswellbrook, Denman, Maitland and Dungog. Heavy #rain expec...ted to develop across northern #NSW on Monday and Tuesday. Rain and storms can cause flooding. A Flood Watch has also been issued. HEAVY RAINFALL which may lead to FLASH FLOODING and RIVERINE FLOODING is expected to develop across the Northwest Slopes and Plains and parts of the Central West Slopes and Plains and Upper Western forecast districts from later Monday morning. Rainfall will increase and spread east, reaching the Hunter, during Monday afternoon and evening. View all current weather warnings from the Bureau of Meteorology at http://bit.ly/2wuOXWt A reminder if you live or are traveling through the impacted area, please never enter floodwater and keep clear of creeks and storm drains. If you require emergency help in floods or storms, call NSW SES on 132 500. For life threatening emergencies always call ‘000’.

10.01.2022 Our volunteers have been in the streets working hard to assist our community. If you have called 132 500, we are trying to work through the calls as quick as we can. If you see our volunteers at work, please use caution as you pass to help ensure everybody gets to home safely

10.01.2022 Volunteers were asked to lend a hand to our friends in Western Australia to help with the clean up from the Tropical Cyclone. They arrived in Geraldton on 21 April in a RAAF C130 from Perth. Our Unit Commander Ian was appointed as Task Force Commander, also present from Newcastle are our Unit volunteers Paul, Morgan, Christina, Mick and Christian.

10.01.2022 REMINDER RE NSW SES PROCEDURES | COVID-19 With the ongoing COVID-19 situation the NSW SES will continue to follow COVID-19 call taking and response procedures so our volunteers can stay safe whilst helping communities during storms and floods. In taking your call for emergency assistance we will ask if anyone at the property has flu-like symptoms or has been diagnosed with the COVID-19 virus. NSW SES will still respond to your request if you say yes to any or both of thes...e questions. They will just use this information to use risk mitigation strategies so they can stay safe. While our NSW SES Response Team is traveling to your property, they may contact you via mobile phone seeking pictures or videos of the damage to your home or business. NSW SES volunteers will maintain appropriate physical distancing whilst at your property and may need to communicate with you via mobile phone in some circumstances. We may also provide self- help advice so you can do temporary repairs to your own home or business. We will only do this if appropriate and safe to do so, given the circumstances and nature of the damage and actions required to make your property safe. We appreciate your support whilst we implement these important measures so we can continue to provide emergency services to the community while protecting the safety of our volunteers. For emergency assistance in storms and floods call NSW SES on 132 500.

09.01.2022 NSW SES are currently experiencing high call volumes due to weather and flash flooding impacts in #Newcastle and surrounding areas. Please be patient when you contact 132 500, we will get to your call as soon as possible. In life threatening emergencies call triple zero (000).

09.01.2022 What Aussie Icons can you guess are turning orange in NSW for WOW Day? Check out the list here http://www.wowday.com.au/nsw #WOWDay #thankyouSES

08.01.2022 Our Newcastle Unit volunteers have been at Bourke helping the western community with flooding in the area. Working alongside RFS volunteers, our team assisted with transporting their water pumps to inaccessible areas via our boats. Our team also assisted with taking floodwater measurements and providing photographs from remote locations

07.01.2022 Onyx Espresso Bar reached out to us during the flood and storm event offering to look after our volunteers while they were out on the road working through all the calls for help that we had received. Our teams were able to take a break with a hot coffee that hit the spot nicely. THANK YOU for supporting us!!... ONYX #thankyou #WeLoveNewcastle

07.01.2022 Responding to flood and storm events over a prolonged event can be tiring! Amber-Lea and Mikayla visited us this evening to present our volunteers with two large care hampers from Woolworths Mayfield and Woolworths Jesmond. Amber-Lea (Customer Service Manager) spotted some of our volunteers ducking-in to the store recently and wanted to help. Thank you for supporting us!! And we are sure they will be put to good use as we continue to respond across the state and to future local events.

07.01.2022 From the Sydney Harbour Bridge, to Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena, and even Larry the Lobster in South Australia iconic landmarks across the country will turn... orange on 18 and 19 May 2021 to mark this year’s Wear Orange Wednesday in support of State Emergency Service volunteers. Mount Panorama Big Letters (Date TBC) Big Banana (Tues 18) Dog on the Tucker Box (Tues 18) Big Merino (Tues 18) Opera House (Tues 18) Sydney Harbour Bridge (Tues 18) Clock and concourse of Central Station in Sydney (Tues 18 & Wed 19) Albury Entertainment Centre (Wed 19) Hunters Hill Council Chambers (Wed 19) Sydney Cricket Ground (Wed 19) Sydney Town Hall (Tues 18) Bankwest (Wed 19) Stadium Australia (Wed 19) Port Macquarie Glasshouse Theatre & Town Square (Wed 19) Glen Innes Town Hall (Wed 19) Ku-Ring-Gai Local Council Chambers (19 May) Bankstown learning and Knowledge Centre (Wed 19 May) Penrith Civic Centre (Wed 19) CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope (Wed 19) Port Stephens Council Admin Building Raymond Terrace (Tues 18) Large roadside electronic noticeboard at the Yalawanyi Ganya building on the Mid North Coast (Wed 19) #thankyouSES #NVW2021 #WOWDay

06.01.2022 Our volunteers are still hard at work today. If you require SES assistance, call 132 500

06.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=667074160619293

05.01.2022 Are you prepared for the wet weather? If you need SES assistance, call 132500

04.01.2022 Severe Thunderstorm Warning for HEAVY RAINFALL, DAMAGING WINDS and LARGE HAILSTONES For people in Northern Rivers and parts of Mid North Coast, Hunter, North West Slopes and Plains and Northern Tablelands Forecast Districts. Issued at 2:55 pm Sunday, 25 October 2020. Weather Situation:... Severe thunderstorms are likely to produce heavy rainfall that may lead to flash flooding, damaging winds and large hailstones over the next several hours in the Northern Rivers and parts of the Mid North Coast and Northern Tablelands districts. Locations which may be affected include Lismore, Grafton, Kyogle, Yamba, Maclean and Woolgoolga. Severe thunderstorms are likely to produce heavy rainfall that may lead to flash flooding over the next several hours in parts of the Mid North Coast, Hunter, North West Slopes and Plains and Northern Tablelands districts. Locations which may be affected include Tamworth, Gunnedah, Walcha, Barraba, Quirindi and Bendemeer. For up to date warnings: https://bit.ly/3dTkZjA

02.01.2022 We Will Remember Them

02.01.2022 SES has now received 520 call for assistance with 352 of those in Newcastle Our crews of volunteers still have 306 jobs to attend to If you have not registered a job with SES but still need our help please call 132500 for assistance

02.01.2022 Communities in the Hunter and Inner North of the State are asked to be aware and prepared. A slow-moving low-pressure trough is expected to linger over north-e...ast NSW during Monday afternoon and evening. Heavy rainfall is likely with this slow-moving weather system which may lead to FLASH FLOODING and RIVERINE FLOODING. Isolated thunderstorms are possible across the warning area and very heavy rainfall may result in flash flooding. NSW SES reminds people to never drive, ride or walk through floodwater as this is the main cause of death during floods. To read the full media release: https://bit.ly/3reoM1h You can find regular updates on the NSW SES website www.ses.nsw.gov.au And for all weather updates visit the Bureau of Meteorology https://bit.ly/3nEyCHo

01.01.2022 If you require SES assistance, call 132 500

01.01.2022 If you see stopped emergency vehicles, tow trucks and breakdown assistance vehicles displaying flashing lights, remember to slow down to 40km/h in speed zones o...f 80km/h or less when passing. In speed zones of 90km/h or more, slow down safely and move over to give them space. #NRSW #driveSOS #ThankYouSES #WOWDay Find out more: bit.ly/slowdowngivespace

01.01.2022 Have you considered joining the Flood Alert Service operated by Newcastle Council? It could be a handy tool to have for preparing your property for storms. It’s intended as a guide only... https://newcastle.nsw.gov.au/floodalert

01.01.2022 One of our volunteers Pearl has made it into the newspaper to round out Volunteers Week