New South Wales State Emergency Service
The NSW State Emergency Service or 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 10,000 volunteer members, via 228 suburban, regional and rural units located throughout New South Wales. The volunteers are easily identified by their distinctive orange overalls.
With its history going back to 1955, a State Emergency Services' organisation was established after the devastating Hunter Valley floods of 1955, merged with Civil Defence in response to fears of a nuclear attack and then restructured in 1972 and again in 1989, following the enactment of the State Emergency Service Act, 1989 (NSW).
The Commissioner of the New South Wales State Emegency Service is Murray Kear AFSM, who reports to the Minister for Police and Emergency Services, the Hon. Mike Gallacher MP.
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