Tuesday, 1 August 2023

State Emergency Service Nillumbik, Heidelberg and Manningham units

Vicki WARD (Eltham) (17:03): During Volunteer Week I joined with the member for Jagajaga Kate Thwaites MP and member for North-Eastern Metropolitan Region Sonja Terpstra MP to thank our local SES volunteers from Nillumbik, Heidelberg and Manningham for all they do for our communities. We brought with us snags, salads, sauces and bread for our SES hosts, a small token of our gratitude for the late-night call-outs, the rescues, the training and all the work that is done around the clock to help support our community.

Throughout the night volunteers from the three SES units competed in an SES Olympics of rescue skills challenges based on agility, strength and teamwork, with events including a stretcher-handling obstacle course, a radio and map navigation search, sandbag and pumping sand skills and a teamwork challenge. Congratulations to the Manningham unit for their win this year, and my particular thanks to Tim Hamilton and his crew from Nillumbik SES for their assistance in organising and hosting such a fabulous event. I thank all members of VICSES for their support of and service to our communities.