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CareFlight  - more detail »»

Organisation purpose :
Based at the Gold Coast Airport, RACQ CareFlight Rescue provides a vital emergency medical and rescue helicopter service for the communities of southern QLD. The iconic blue and yellow choppers cover a vast flight region extending as far north as Gympie, west to Roma and Goondiwindi, south to Grafton and Lismore, and up to 100 nautical miles out to sea. After 27 years RACQ CareFlight Rescue conti…

Organisation news :
CareFlight is committed to providing the community with a high quality of advanced rapid response emergency medical retrieval services. We recognise the community push for a fulltime South West operation and are committed to expanding the service when the financial support required is secured from local businesses.…

Entry Last Updated :21-Jan-2009



Coast Guard Freycinet  - more detail »»

Organisation purpose :
Provides a volunteer marine rescue service in association with Tasmania Police for the lower east coast of Tasmania. Conducts training in marine rescue and boating safety.…

Organisation news :
1 March 2005: A family renting a beach house near Swansea, Tasmania discovered a canoe, stored under the house. The father and two daughters decided to go for a paddle. Once on the water, the canoe was blown offshore in rising winds and capsized. Coast Guard Freycinet volunteers were called to rescue the family. The two children were suffering from hypothermia and required medical treatment.…

Entry Last Updated :16-Mar-2010



CQ RESCUE  - more detail »»

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Provides Helicopter Emergency Medical Services to Central Queensland. Also operates in a Search and Rescue role both overwater and over land.…

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CQ RESCUE was formed in 1996 to provide rapid response to the remote and rural areas of the state. Since our inception the mining sector have been a major supporter of our service through payroll donations and direct support from BMA, Thiess, XStrata Coal, RACQ.…

Entry Last Updated :06-Oct-2005



Surf Life Saving New South Wales  - more detail »»

Organisation purpose :
Surf Life Saving NSW represents 55,000 volunteer lifesavers that patrol more than 200 public beaches along the State's coastline. Each year they perform thousands of rescues, attend to emergency situations including first aid, deliver 140,000 preventative actions, educate more than 20,000 primary school age children and perform more than 270,000 patrolling hours from late September to end April.…

Organisation news :
Saturday 29 January at about 2.30 in the afternoon. Stuart Harvey, a senior lifesaver, is relaxing with his wife near Spoon Bay, an unpatrolled beach on the NSW Central Coast. It’s a fine day,but the sea is big and very rough Stuart’s not on duty but he does have his Surf Life Saving radio with him. He hears a distress call made from an outpost radio at Spoon Bay “....people in trouble in a rip...…

Entry Last Updated :14-Oct-2005



The Surf Life Saving Foundation  - more detail »»

Organisation purpose :
Surf Life Saving has a proud tradition of saving lives for over 100 years. Since 1907, surf lifesavers have volunteered their time and effort to provide a dedicated lifesaving service around the country. There are over 43,000 volunteer surf lifesavers around Australia who carry out the vital community service of keeping watch over the millions of visitors that flock to our beaches each year. All s…

Organisation news :
True Blue Aussie Spirit Alive in Courageous Teen On December 5th, the seas were treacherous. But that didn’t stop 15 year old Annisa Colley from heading out to play her role as a surf lifesaver at Miami Beach Surf Life Saving Club. In fact, rough seas were the exact reason why she was especially needed that day. Annisa was only five minutes away from the end of her patrol, but she was compl…

Entry Last Updated :19-Jan-2010



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