7K views · 86 reactions | A gunman was at large after a shooting in a town in Australia’s New South Wales state on Thursday left three people dead and another wounded, police said. Emergency services were called to two locations at Lake Cargelligo, a town of around 1,500 people, after 4 p.m. Two couples, a man and woman, had been shot in each location within minutes, Police Assistant Commissioner Andy Holland said. | AP | Facebook

The May 2025 floods marked the first time community-led clean-up teams, dubbed mud armies, partnered with the NSW State Emergency Service, which made them SES volunteers for the day. The SES provided safety briefings, protective gear and insurance coverage to each spontaneous volunteer during recovery operation days on the Mid North Coast last year. The partnership showed the value of spontaneous volunteering and the NSW SES plans to link with community bodies and leaders in the aftermath of fut

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The SES in SA now has nine new remotely piloted aircraft (drones), providing real-time aerial vision, thermal imaging and access to hazardous locations without placing volunteers at risk. With almost 50 drones, the SES operates one of the largest emergency service drone fleets in South Australia. The new drones replace ageing equipment and are part of a $2 million 2025-26 State Budget program to modernise SES' aerial fleet, improving our reconnaissance, intelligence gathering and hazard assessme

🚨 Port Lincoln SES Training Night 🚨 Great to see 16 volunteers turning up and committing to training — including new members getting hands-on experience. 👏 Off-site rope training gave everyone a taste of teamwork and what’s involved in progressing toward Vertical Rescue. 🧗‍♂️🪢 We also had the Western Operations Support Unit undertaking drone operations on our new Matrice 4TD platform. 🚁📡 🎥 Video below — enjoy the ride. SA State Emergency Service #PortLincolnSES #VolunteerTraining #Vertic

More than 700 SES volunteers are out in the field in New South Wales, attending over 900 jobs as the state battles severe weather. | Sky News Australia