Sturt SES volunteers responded to 504 requests for assistance within Sturt SES response area in the 2023 to 2024 financial year.
Your local volunteers responded to a variety of incidents ranging from Storm & Flood emergencies, Rescues and Building Impacts along with Intrastate Deployments, and Rescue support to major community events like WOMAD, VALO500, and Royal Adelaide Show.
Incident Type |
Call out numbers |
| Building Collapse | 1 |
| Building Impact | 4 |
| Cover Assignment | 2 |
| Flooding Salvage | 28 |
| Helicopter Landing | 1 |
| Rescue Animal | 1 |
| Rescue From Heights | 5 |
| Rescue General | 23 |
| Rescue Industrial | 1 |
| Search | 2 |
| SES Assist Resident | 2 |
| SES Provide Equipment | 5 |
| Severe Weather | 47 |
| Tree Down | 381 |
| Vehicle Recovery | 1 |
| Total | 504 |
Sturt SES volunteers responded to 1435 requests for assistance within Sturt SES response area in the 2022 to 2023 financial year.
Your local volunteers responded to a variety of incidents ranging from Storm & Flood emergencies, Rescues and Building Impacts along with Intrastate & Interstate Deployments, and Swiftwater Technician support to the River Murray Flood event.
Incident Type |
Call out numbers |
| Assist ESO Agency | 1 |
| Building Impact | 11 |
| Cover Assignment | 5 |
| Domestic Gas | 1 |
| Flooding Salvage | 69 |
| Rescue Animal | 3 |
| Rescue Confined Space | 3 |
| Rescue General | 19 |
| Rescue Lift | 1 |
| Rescue Swiftwater | 1 |
| SES Assist Police | 1 |
| SES Assist Resident | 6 |
| SES Provide Equipment | 13 |
| Severe Weather | 112 |
| Tree Down | 1186 |
| Undefined Event | 1 |
| Vehicle Recovery | 1 |
| Total | 1435 |
Sturt SES volunteers responded to 735 requests for assistance within Sturt SES response area in the 2021 to 2022 financial year.
Your local volunteers responded to a variety of incidents ranging from Fire Support, Storm & Flood emergencies, Rescues and Building Impacts along with Intrastate & Interstate Deployments.
Incident Type |
Call out numbers |
| Building Impact | 10 |
| Flooding Salvage | 35 |
| Cover Assignment | 4 |
| Rescue Animal | 4 |
| Rescue From Heights | 1 |
| Rescue General | 10 |
| Search | 2 |
| Structure Fire | 1 |
| SES Assist Resident | 7 |
| SES Provide Equipment | 13 |
| Severe Weather | 95 |
| Tree Down | 549 |
| Undefined Event | 1 |
| Vehicle Recovery | 3 |
| Total | 735 |
Sturt SES volunteers responded to 453 requests for assistance within Sturt SES response area in the 2020 to 2021 financial year.
Your local volunteers responded to a variety of incidents ranging from Fire Support, Storm & Flood emergencies, Rescues, Building Impacts to Intrastate & Interstate Deployments.
Incident Type |
Call out numbers |
| BUILDING IMPACT | 8 |
| FLOODING SALVAGE | 16 |
| HELICOPTER LANDING | 1 |
| RESCUE ANIMAL | 11 |
| RESCUE FROM HEIGHTS | 7 |
| RESCUE GENERAL | 9 |
| RESCUE LIFT | 1 |
| RESCUE SWIFT WATER | 0 |
| SEARCH | 0 |
| SES ASSIST FIRE | 2 |
| SES ASSIST POLICE | 1 |
| SES ASSIST RESIDENT | 2 |
| SES PROVIDE EQUIPMENT | 6 |
| SEVERE WEATHER | 18 |
| TREE DOWN | 367 |
| VEHICLE ACCIDENT | 1 |
| VEHICLE RECOVERY | 3 |
| Total | 453 |
Sturt SES volunteers responded to 508 requests for assistance within Sturt SES response area in the 2019 to 2020 financial year.
Your local volunteers responded to a variety of incidents ranging from Fire Support, Storm & Flood emergencies, Rescues, Building Impacts to Structure Collapses and Land & Air Searches.
Incident Type |
Call out numbers |
| Assist ESO | 3 |
| Building Collapse | 1 |
| Building Impact | 4 |
| Cover Assignment | 3 |
| Flooding Salvage | 34 |
| Helicopter Landing | 1 |
| Provide Equipment | 1 |
| Rescue Animal | 6 |
| Rescue From Heights | 3 |
| Rescue General | 5 |
| Rescue Swift Water | 0 |
| Road Crash Rescue | 1 |
| Search | 0 |
| SES Assist Fire | 1 |
| SES Assist Police | 1 |
| SES Assist Resident | 1 |
| SES Provide Equipment | 12 |
| Severe Weather | 33 |
| Tree Down | 393 |
| Vehicle Accident | 1 |
| Vehicle Recovery | 4 |
| Total | 508 |
Sturt SES volunteers responded to 538 requests for assistance within Sturt SES response area in the 2018/2019 financial year.
Your local volunteers responded to a variety of incidents ranging from Fire Support, Storm & Flood emergencies, Rescues, Building Impacts to Structure Collapses and Land & Air Searches.
Incident type |
Call out numbers |
| Tree down | 428 |
| Flooding / Salvage | 33 |
| Severe weather | 39 |
| Provide equipment | 7 |
| Animal Rescue | 7 |
| Rescue General | 5 |
| Building impact | 8 |
| Vehicle recovery | 3 |
| Air support | 1 |
| Undefined event | 1 |
| Rescue Swift Water | 0 |
| Search | 4 |
| Rescue livestock | 1 |
| Rescue confined Space | 0 |
| Rescue from heights | 1 |
| Total | 538 |
Sturt SES volunteers responded to 461 requests for assistance within Sturt SES response area in the 2017/2018 financial year.
Your local volunteers responded to a variety of incidents ranging from Fire Support, Storm & Flood emergencies, Rescues, Building Impacts to Structure Collapses and Land & Air Searches.
Incident type |
Call out numbers |
| Tree down | 351 |
| Flooding / Salvage | 25 |
| Severe weather | 28 |
| Provide equipment | 13 |
| Animal Rescue | 5 |
| Rescue General | 6 |
| Building impact | 17 |
| Vehicle recovery | 5 |
| Air support | 2 |
| Undefined event | 3 |
| Rescue Swift Water | 2 |
| Search | 1 |
| Rescue livestock | 1 |
| Rescue confined Space | 1 |
| Rescue from heights | 1 |
| Total | 461 |
Sturt SES volunteers responded to 1532 requests for assistance within Sturt SES response area in the 2016 -2017 financial year. Members also responded to a further 93 incidents outside of our primary response area.
That equates to well over 200,000 hours, 11.7 million minutes that members of your local community have stopped what they are doing, left family and friends behind to help others in the community during their time of need.
I am sure you will all agree that our volunteers have done a tremendous job, we should all be extremely proud to have the volunteer rescuers from the Sturt State Emergency Service serving our local community.
Incident type |
Call out numbers |
| Tree down | 1246 |
| Flooding / Salvage | 128 |
| Severe weather | 79 |
| Provide equipment | 20 |
| Animal Rescue | 15 |
| Rescue (Heights / confined space etc) | 8 |
| Building impact | 6 |
| Miscellaneous | 30 |
| Incidents outside of primary response area | 93 |
| Total | 1625 |
