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  2. State Emergency Service - Wikipedia

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    The State Emergency Service ( SES) is the name used by a number of civil defence organisations in Australia that provide assistance during and after major incidents. Specifically, the service deals with floods, storms and tsunamis, but can also assist in other emergencies, such as vertical rescue and road crash rescues, missing persons searches ...

  3. State Emergency Service of Ukraine - Wikipedia

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    State hydro-meteorological service. State department of the insurance documentation fund of the Ministry. On December 24, 2012, the Ministry of Emergencies of Ukraine was transformed into the State Emergency Service [6] and placed under jurisdiction of the Ministry of Defence. On 25 April 2014, the service was transferred to the Ministry of ...

  4. Victoria State Emergency Service - Wikipedia

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    Victoria State Emergency Service (VICSES) is a volunteer-based organisation responding to natural disasters and working to ensure the safety of communities around Victoria, Australia. Each State and territory of Australia has its own independent State Emergency Service (SES), and VICSES is only one of these services spread across Australia.

  5. New South Wales State Emergency Service - Wikipedia

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    The New South Wales State Emergency Service ( NSW SES ), an agency of the Government of New South Wales, is an emergency and rescue service dedicated to assisting the community in times of natural and man-made disasters. The NSW SES is made up almost entirely of volunteer members, numbering over 10,214 as of July 2021. [2]

  6. Queensland State Emergency Service - Wikipedia

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    The Queensland State Emergency Service (QSES) in Queensland, Australia is a volunteer based organisation of the Queensland Government and forms part of the Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES), responsible for disaster management and as an emergency services auxiliary. The current head of the Queensland State Emergency Service is ...

  7. South Australian State Emergency Service - Wikipedia

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    The South Australian State Emergency Service ( SASES, commonly known as the SES) is the South Australian branch of the State Emergency Service, partner of the Australian Council of State Emergency Services. The service, founded in 1962, is volunteer based, and prepares and responds to emergencies within the state.

  8. Department of Fire and Emergency Services - Wikipedia

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    The State Emergency Service (SES) is a volunteer service with the role of attending a vast array of natural disasters and search and rescue incidents. They attend land searches for missing people, storm damage, urban search and rescue (USAR), cliff rescue, road crash rescue, transporting personnel and equipment to fires as well as many other roles.

  9. Emergency medical services in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Freedom House Ambulance Service was the first emergency medical service in the United States to be staffed by paramedics with medical training beyond basic first aid. [24] In the late 1960s, Dr. R Adams Cowley was instrumental in the creation of the country's first statewide EMS program, in Maryland. The system was called the Division of ...