Toll chopper to the rescue
A five-year-old girl was taken to John Hunter Hospital on Sunday afternoon, October 1, after being hit by a car at Woongarrah. Toll Rescue Helicopter was called in to assist…
Emergency Services
Training for emergencies and disasters
Following back-to-back years of floods and bushfires, and with a declared El Nino event underway, the Central Coast Local Emergency Management Committee continues to prepare with a rolling program of…
Training exercise in bus crash simulation
Multiple emergency services took part in a combined training exercise at Central Coast Airport last Thursday, April 6, to practise their responses to a bus rollover with mass casualties. Emergency…
Blue Haven firefighter in line for state honour
Minister for Police and Emergency Services, David Elliot, will announce the winners of the Rotary Districts of NSW Emergency Services Community Awards (RESPCA) at a ceremony at Parliament House on August…
NSW Telco’s Public Safety Network expands
New Public Safety Network (PSN) radio sites at The Entrance and Wadalba are a major boost in operational and mission critical communications coverage for emergency services. The new radio infrastructure…
Spencer community calls for better access to emergency services
The small riverside community of Spencer is tired of being left high and dry whenever a natural disaster occurs and is agitating for Federal, State and Local Government help in…
New radio tower at Mt Elliot expands public safety network
The Central Coast’s Public Safety Network has been expanded, with the construction of a new radio site at Mount Elliot now complete. Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast and Member…
$ 1M funding boost for local emergency services
Central Coast Council will soon be more than $1M better off, thanks to a State Government decision to fully fund the local government increase in the Emergency Services Levy (ESL)…
100,000 men and women need to be trained for all emergencies
[Forum] After the cyclone devastated Darwin in 1974, the commanding officer of the clean-up, Major General Alan Stretton, informed the government that he needed 100,000 men and women to be…
Emergency service workers to look after each other
The inaugural meeting of the Central Coast Emergency services Post Trauma Support Group was held at the Terrigal Surf Club on Tuesday, November 17. Past and present emergency service workers…