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Oberon State Emergency Service Photos

rescue photos

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  • CP_2946: Megan Elms, Mark Matthews and Kim Cook build a small raking shore as part of their General Rescue Training.
  • CP_2950: Breaching a wall as part of General Rescue Training.
  • CP_2955: The ultimate fashion accessories for the girl who has everything! Kim Cook emerges from the dust modelling the latest in wall breaching fashion accessories for the girl about town.
  • DCP_2329s: A Mitsubishi Mirage following a high speed crash on the O'Connell Rd.
  • DCP_3484s: All hands on deck to rapidly remove the roof and attend the injured driver of this car after a collision with a horse.
  • DCP_3489s: Casualty handing a driver with suspected spinal injuries after removing the roof of the car.
  • DCP_4069s: Cave Rescuer Owen Zuber manouvres into position to attend a casualty in a simulated building collapse exercise.
  • DCP_4070s: The Oberon team rescuing a casualty from a simulated building collapse exercise.
  • DCP_4579s: This crash occurred on the outskirts of Oberon during winter - icy roads the primary cause.
  • HampCrash0s: A multiple casualty two car crash near Hampton.
  • HampCrash2s: Protecting the driver with hard protection while the door is removed with a Lukas Combi Tool.
  • HampCrash3s: Road Crash scene with a smoke flare activated to signal the Careflight Rescue Helicopter.
  • HampCrash5s: Removing the driver's door with the Lukas spreaders while on lookers and media watch in the background.
  • HampCrash8s: Crash scene at night - reflective tape everywhere is an ominous sign.
  • IceCrash3s: Now that's Parking! A commercial van ballanced on it's nose as a result of a crash caused by ice on the road.
  • KennyRoyal2s: Trapped between walls! Ambulance Officer and Oberon SES volunteer rescuers attend a resident of the Oberon Royal Hotel who fell from a second storey window between buildings.
  • MVAHarveysRd3s: The log this Ford is balancing on crushed the roof to dash between the driver and passenger. Neither suffered serious injury.
  • PeteLynRCRDemos: Protecting a road crash casualty with hard protection while "popping" the door with hydraulic spreaders - 2002 Rescue Expo Demonstration.


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vertical rescue photos
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  • CWVM: Vertical Mobility Training in the fog at Gibraltar Rocks.
  • DCP_4010s: David Walther, Vertical Rescue Operator rescues an uninjured casualty via a cableway during a major exercise at Carcoar Dam.
  • DCP_4017s: A major exercise at Carcoar Dam. An injured casualty (result of a vertical rope access accident while inspecting the wall) on the roof of the valve room. Craig Gibbons (Oberon SES) and Trevor Gunter (Bathurst City SES) attend to Lyn D'Arcy Evans (Oberon SES) who is playing the casualty.
  • DCP_4023s: Oberon SES volunteers Craig Gibbons (Stretcher Attendant) and Lyn D'Arcy Evans (Casualty) are lifted clear of the dam valve room roof by cableway.
  • DCP_4036s: Vertical Rescue Operator Craig Gibbons accompanies Lyn D'Arcy Evans to ground in a cableway rescue from the roof of the Carcoar Dam Valve Room in a major exercise .
  • DCP_4237s: Owen Zuber looks up from the shaft ante room beneath the generator room in a vertical rescue exercise at the Blayney Wind Generator Farm.
  • DCP_4468c: Vertical Rescue Trainer Peter Howard performs a "one-on-one" rescue on fellow VR trainer Rod Whalan at the Kiama Vertical Rescue Professional Development Workshop.
  • DHV35c: Russell Hillsley, Vertical Rescue Operator from Hawkesbury SES comforts Megan Elms (Oberon SES) during a Vertical Rescue Display at Darling Harbour.
  • DHV36c: Vertical Rescue Trainer Rod Whalan (Oberon) foots the Larkin Rescue Frame as Stretcher Attendant, Russell Hillsley (Hawkesbury), and Casualty, Megan Elms (Oberon), aproach the top of the lift durign a Vertical Rescue Display at Darling Harbour.
  • Dsc01298c: Vertical Rescue Trainer Alan Sheehan (Oberon) demonstrates a Tandem Prusik Belay rig under the watchful gaze of Shane Woodhouse (Ulladulla) and Kevin Jones (Hawkesbury) at the Kiama VR Professional Development Weekend.
  • FF992: A 150m span English Reeved Highline lifts an operator out of a flood rescue boat as an exercise.
  • JimEdgec: Vertical Rescue Operator Jim Young reaches the top during a Vertical Rescue Display at Darling Harbour.
  • JimPruss: Vertical Rescue Operator Jim Young competing in the Vertical Mobility skins event at the VRCau Vertical Rescue Challenge Australia 2002.
  • PARKES2: Vertical Rescue Trainer Peter Howard as stretcher attendant on the 42m free hanging lower from the Parkes Radiotelescope durign a training exercise.
  • PLSLIDE: Now that's a ladder side! 37 metres in vertical distance down the ladder from the focal cabin of the Parkes Radiotelescope.
  • RodCableway1c: Vertical Rescue Trainer Rod Whalan demonstrates a cableway descent at a display at Darling Harbour.
  • RodLynJims: Rod Whalan rescues an uninjured Lyn D'Arcy Evans at the Rescue Expo 2002 Vertical Rescue Display while Vertical Rescue Operator Jim Young foots the Larkin Rescue Frame.
  • V3PH3: Vertical Rescue Trainer Alan Sheehan controls the luff of the Larkin Rescue Frame during a Vertical Rescue Course at Peak Hill.
  • vrdam1: A nasty edge to be negotiated during an exercise on Oberon Dam wall.
  • vrdam2: Vertical Rescue exercise in the spillway of Oberon Dam.
  • VRGR1: Larkin Rescue Frame in use duringan exercise at Gibraltar Rocks.
  • VRWOLL2: Vertical Rescue TRainer Alan Sheehan as the stretcher attendant during an exercise at Wollongong Grain Terminal.
  • VRWOLL: Vertical Rescue TRainer Alan Sheehan as the stretcher attendant during an exercise at Wollongong Grain Terminal.


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land search photos
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  • 6FootBikeCasc: Oberon SES volunteers Jim Young, Amy Butterfield and Peter Howard assist Ambulance Officers with an injured motorcyclist on Black Range.
  • 6FootBikeScenec: The scene of the above accident as the Doctor is prepared to be winched down from Careflight 2.
  • CasHandlGraces: Oberon SES volunteers and Careflight Crew lift an ill bushwalker, Grace into a sleeping bag covered stretcher on Rip Knoll of the Kanangra Boyd National Park.
  • DCP_1480s: Part of the crew of 23 university students overdue in Kalang Falls Canyon in Kanangra Boyd National Park.
  • ROYJAM: Oberon SES volunteers guided and assisted Oberon Ambulance Officer to this injured bushwalker at Smiths Pass in Kanangra Boyd National Park. The walker slipped on leaf litter at the base of the pass and fractured an ankle.
  • search010827: Oberon SES volunteers Jim Young and David Walther with the subjects of another search for overdue bushwalkers in the Kanangra Boyd National Park.
  • SEARCH: The search for the "lost girlfriend" - separated from her partner on a walk to the Kowmung. She was found the day after going missing on the Gingra Range 400m past their intended route (Hughes' Ridge).


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cave rescue photos
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  • 1996CRX: Handling the casualty into the Decoration Chamber of Tuglow Caves during the 1996 Cave Rescue Exercise.
  • CRSQ2: About the lift the casualty from River Level during cave rescue exercise in Tuglow.
  • CRSQ3: A Tyrolean traverse used to transport the casualty from Lipton's Ledge to the Back of Knight's Knobbly Knurl during a Tuglow Caves Rescue Exercise.
  • CRSQ4: The casualty being raised from the intermediate level to the surface during a Tuglow Caves Rescue Exercise.
  • CRSQ: The casualty being raised up to nearly the top of the Chimney in a Tuglow Caves Rescue Exercise.
  • Picture_0892s: Rod Whalan, Vertical Rescue Trainer, hauls on the counterweight rope of a cave rescue haulk system in Wyanbene Caves.
  • Picture_0897s: Alan Sheehan (top) and Rod Whalan (bottom) provide the counterweight to lift the casualty in a vertical lift in Wynabene Caves.
  • Picture_0899s: Alan Sheehan (top) and Rod Whalan (bottom) provide the counterweight to lift the casualty in a vertical lift in Wynabene Caves.
  • SEWER: Arthur Henry and Charlie Taylor, Oberon SES, sit int he water and pass the casualty, Steven Cliffe of Wollongong SES, across their laps in a cave rescue exercise in Tuglow Caves.


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flood photos
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  • FF992: Oberon SES practice loading and unloading people to and from the flood rescue boat using an English Reeved Highline at a Division Multiskills training weekend.
  • gruphelp: Practicing the Heat Escape Lessening Position (HELP) in a swimming pool as part of flood rescue boat training.
  • HELPs: Practicing the Heat Escape Lessening Position (HELP) in a swimming pool as part of flood rescue boat training.


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storm photos
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  • storm1: The Oberon SES crew tarping the roof of a 5 storey block of flats following a major hailstorm. Winds were gusting to 30 knots through this operation, demanding careful manipulation of large tarpaulins!
  • storm2: The Oberon SES crew tarping the roof of a 5 storey block of flats following a major hailstorm. Winds were gusting to 30 knots through this operation, demanding careful manipulation of large tarpaulins!.


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miscellaneous photos
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  • MattAprons: What does an SES volunteer do when cooking for up to 300 fire fighters at a staging area 70 kms from town, when he realises he hasn't got a BBQ apron? Well, he takes a piece of canvacon, some rope, some tape and a knife... and makes one!


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