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Current Significant Incidents
Tuesday 1st July Overnight SES crews from Central Region attended 12 taskings, predominantly in the Meadows, Macclesfield and Echunga area and relating to trees/branches down. No incidents were reported as being significant. East Region crews attended 6 similar taskings in the Millicent and Mt Gambier area. West and North Regions reported nil incidents. At 0510 hours today the Bureau of Meteorology cancelled the Severe Weather warning, however, gale warnings remain current for the South Central and South East coasts. As predicted, a handful of taskings are starting to filter through in Central Region as people awake to find storm damage and trees down. Monday 30th June 2008
Previous Significant Incidents 2nd April, 2008 - 2115hrs Damaging winds and associated rain have impacted on a large part of the State. The southern suburbs of Adelaide, the southern Mt Lofty Ranges and parts of the Fleurieu Peninsula have been particularly hard hit. Damage in the Lower South East is currently being reported. SES State Level of Preparedness is currently at Yellow. The strong to gale force winds have resulted in many trees down with resultant damage to houses, cars and power lines. SES has responded to in excess of 326 calls for assistance, the majority of which have been associated with trees down. There have also been calls for assistance with roof damage and resultant water entry into houses. Whilst the winds and calls for assistance have abated somewhat over the last few hours, the Severe Weather section of the Bureau of Meteorology has indicated that winds may be present in isolated areas in the metropolitan area until approximately 2200hrs, gradually moving through areas in the south east of the state up until 0300hrs tomorrow. For more weather information and forecasts, please check the Bureau of Meteorology website. SES advises that extra vigilance should be taken on the roads due to the wet and windy conditions. For SES storm and flood emergency response call 132 500. Media Release - 1st April, 2008 - 1800 hrs Widespread Rains Impact- Adelaide and surrounding areas - 21 December, 2007- Mallee Region 19th December 2007Kangaroo Island Fires (11th - 20th December, 2007)SES is still supporting the fire operation on Kangaroo Island. Approximately 180 SES volunteers and staff have travelled to the island in 4 differrent task force groups to assist the firefighters and community. Teams assisted to establish the two base camps on the island and managed the camps which housed around 800 people per night. Other tasks included assisting to:
Most volunteers will be returning on Thursday 20th December 2007.
Bob Stevenson who represented SES in the Incident Management Team for a number of days, bought a disposable camera and took some photos around the camp click here to view Storm Operations 6th & 7th December 2007State Emergency Service volunteer Units across the Adelaide Metropolitan Area and many other areas of the State responded to some 100 requests for assistance during the evening of Thursday 06 December and the early morning of Friday 07 December 2007.The SES tasks mostly related to high winds and severe wind gusts which impacted the Adelaide Metropolitan area and the settled areas of the State from approximately 1700 hours on Thursday. The SES in conjunction with the Bureau of Meteorology maintained a watch on the severe weather system for 24 hours prior to impact and had implemented an appropriate level of increased preparedness across the state. Many calls related to trees on roads, trees on houses, and roof damage in areas such as Rosslyn Park, Seacliffe, Blackwood, O’Halloran Hill, Prospect, Hallet Cove, Upper Hermitage and Paracombe. Country areas affected included Whyalla, Coober Pedy, Tumby Bay and Strathalbyn. It was reported that a mini-tornado affected the outskirts of Keith causing minimal damage. Ongoing strong winds added to the difficulties as SES crews worked to secure roofing and help remove fallen tree branches.A number of motor vehicle accidents across the metropolitan and country areas were attributed to the poor weather conditions.Srong Winds 27 & 28th OctoberState Emergency Service Volunteers were busy throughout most of South Australia this weekend. At the height of the storm on Saturday evening SES were on Red Alert.As at 0700 hours on Monday 29th October SES had attended over 400 jobs, most of these were related to trees that had fallen down. Many of the trees had impacted on buildings and damaged their roofs. Regions reported the jobs they had attended as follows:
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