Financial year 2023 to 2024 - callout statistics

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

 

Financial year 2022 to 2023 - callout statistics

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

Financial year 2021 to 2022 - callout statistics

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

Financial year 2020 to 2021 - callout statistics

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

Financial year 2019 to 2020 - callout statistics

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

Financial year 2018 to 2019 - callout statistics

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

Financial year 2017 to 2018 - callout statistics

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

Financial year 2016 to 2017 - callout statistics

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