NSW SES Bush Search and Rescue Unit in Rooty Hill, New South Wales, Australia | Emergency rescue service

NSW SES Bush Search and Rescue Unit

Locality: Rooty Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Address: Learmonth Street 2766 Rooty Hill, NSW, Australia

Website: https://www.ses.nsw.gov.au/volunteering-details/bush-search-and-rescue-operator

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25.01.2022 Huge thanks to everyone involved with our operation in the Grose Valley, Blue Mountains, last month. In particular, we'd like to extend our thanks to NSW SES Blue Mountains Unit for their exceptional logistics and base support, Blue Mountains Police Rescue, NSW Ambulance Special Operations, NSW RFS RAFT and local business Stay KCC for the kind use of their campground. Many different agencies and specialties, one team.

24.01.2022 SES Bush Search and Rescue and NSW SES Blue Mountains Unit provided specialised land search operators to assist Blue Mountains Police Rescue in the search for a missing bushwalker, who was unfortunately located deceased yesterday. We'd like to acknowledge the support of local organisations Stay KCC and Rapid Relief Team AU who assisted with accommodation and catering for some of our unit members who travelled from Sydney metro and the Central Coast to take part in the search. For further details, please see NSW Police Media release: https://www.police.nsw.gov.au/news/news_article

19.01.2022 Nice work NSW SES - Snowy River Unit. Great to hear that Spalding was up to his regular tricks and is now safe and well!

18.01.2022 Are you keeping your adventure gland active by reminiscing on past trips? Well, we're doing a bit of that in SES BSAR, with this (slightly cringe-worthy... "Girl members"!) article from Pix Magazine 1953, courtesy of National Library of Australia. Whilst a lot of things have changed since then, a lot of the advice in the article is still solid. [Did you know that SES BSAR started out as "NSW Bushwalkers Search & Rescue" in 1936?]

18.01.2022 So whilst we can't come together for #NavShield this year, it means that we'll have 2 years to plan for a cracker of an event 2021. Here's a sweet memory from 2018 at MacDonald River. Were you there?

18.01.2022 If you're heading out to exercise during COVID19 and looking to National Parks to do so, remember to check https://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/alerts/alerts-list for details as some park areas are closing, such as the entire Royal National Park, which is closed for Easter. Blue Mountains NP has many restrictions and closures also with exceptions for local residents. #COVID19

17.01.2022 This week, NSW SES Bush Search and Rescue Unit members from our Hunter/Central Coast subunit supported our colleagues in NSW SES - Gosford Unit in the search with Newcastle City Police District Police Rescue Unit, for their efforts in locating a local man in Bouddi National Park. See link for further details: https://bit.ly/PoliceMediaBouddi

13.01.2022 NAVSHIELD ANNOUNCEMENT NavShield 2020 has been cancelled to comply with Australian Government regulations regarding organised events during the COVID-19 pandemic. NavShield is the star event on the NSW SES Bush Search and Rescue calendar so the decision to cancel was not taken lightly. We were starting to organise NavShield 2020 in an awesome new location when the pandemic stopped us - so we will keep the location under wraps until NavShield 2021. We promise it will be... worth the wait! As sad as it is to cancel this event, now is time for us all to focus on the health and wellbeing of ourselves, our families and our communities. NavShield will be back in 2021! See you then for the ultimate challenge!!

12.01.2022 Lincoln’s Rock Rescue About 1.30pm yesterday afternoon Blue Mountains Police Rescue and Ambulance Special Operations were called to Lincoln’s Rock Wentworth Fal...ls after a report of a male in his 20's had accidentally fallen from the rock. It appears at this stage that the fall was over 20 metres Police Rescue operators and Ambulance Special Operation paramedics have abseiled down to the victim and provided treatment for a number of serious injuries. In an operation that took several hours the, the male was eventually winched out by a critical care team from the Toll Ambulance Rescue helicopter. Police remind people that at lookouts without any safety fencing, please stay well away from the edge. For lookouts with safety fencing, please stay behind the fencing. Our beautiful cliffs can be very unforgiving if you don't treat them with respect. (Photo P.Rowling)

09.01.2022 BSAR recently hosted a Vertical Rescue Course for members, which covered a variety of environments, techniques and scenarios, including night time and foul weather. If you are looking to volunteer in Land Search and have current skills & experience in overnight hiking/canyons/ rogaining/adventure racing, etc in rugged off-track terrain AND you live in the Blue Mountains, South Coast/Highlands or Central Coast/Hunter region, check out https://www.ses.nsw.gov.au//bush-search-and-rescue-operat/ for how you could get involved.

08.01.2022 Thanks for the inspo Illawarra Police Rescue Squad - NSW Police Force - challenge accepted for a most worthy cause - raising awareness of PTSD. No pressure, but we're wondering if Blue Mountains Police Rescue and Rescue & Bomb Disposal - NSW Police Force are going to join in??

07.01.2022 Our teams are working hard in the Grose Valley, Blue Mountains, looking for David Bush, a 74 year old local missing bushwalker. Have you seen something? Were you hiking in the area near Evans Lookout carpark from Saturday? He is described as Caucasian appearance, about 175cm tall, with a thin build and grey hair.... He was last seen wearing black pants, black jacket, a black beanie and was carrying a blue backpack. Anyone with information about this incident is urged to contact Crime Stoppers: 1800 333 000 or https://nsw.crimestoppers.com.au. Information is treated in strict confidence. The public is reminded not to report crime via NSW Police social media pages.

02.01.2022 With so many of us heading out to the bush and areas of natural beauty now that restrictions are beginning to lift, it is important to keep safety in mind. Please stay behind fences or barriers and be extra mindful around clifftops or exposed edges.

01.01.2022 For our avid Blue Mountains bush walkers, as you come out of the valley at Wentworth Falls at the top of the National Pass, have you ever wondered what that squ...are box is? In the 1940s, Constable 1st Class John Jack Rogers built the box to store rescue equipment. You can still see the footing to the old rescue derrick over the fence that was used to bring victims out from the valley before the days of rescue helicopters. Before the formation of the Blue Mountains Police Rescue Squad in 1968, bush and cliff rescues were left to police officers and volunteers with exceptional bush skills. They could spend up to several days of arduous work carrying someone out from the valley floor. Constable 1st Class Jack Rogers was one of those officers. Jack’s efforts in this time were legendary. He received several honourable mentions in newspapers of his rescue work. Jack was the lockup keeper for the then Wentworth Falls Police station. He lived there with his wife Irene and their 4 daughters Pauline, Lesley, Judith and Noeline. The hapless criminals that found themselves in the Wentworth Falls lockup loved the prisoner’s meals cooked by Irene. Jack was a very community orientated man who was known to either polish the floorboards at the local dance hall or play the music for the dances on his accordion. He was also the Captain of the local volunteer fire brigade. Jack would gain several commendations for his actions in the Blue Mountains, which in 1948 included a notation on his service record at the direction of the Commissioner of Police relating to the recovering of a body at Govetts Leap lookout at Blackheath. The following comment was entered: I would like to take this opportunity of saying that having watched Police recover the body at Govetts Leap by means of their cliff rescue gear, I feel I must congratulate them on a hard and hazardous job well done. They are ably assisted by a number of public-spirited civilians. The general public do not realise the risk taken by our Police when recovering bodies in these mountains of ours. In 1964, Jack retired from the NSW Police Force with his wife Irene at Murwillumbah after attaining the rank of Inspector. So as you make your way out of the valley, past the box in the cutting’s side, give a tip of your hat to Constable 1st Class Rogers who rescued countless bush walkers and brought closure to many grieving families in this time as Lockup Keeper of Wentworth Falls Police station.