That call from Julie yesterday evening could only have been for one reason. Yep, a request to head to Queensland to help out, as State Operations Officer in the Incident Management Team (IMT). I arrived at the Milton office around 1345 hours today (no AMs or PMs in this operation thanks) and walked straight into [...]
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State Operations Officer Diaries–Day 1
Posted in Red Cross, tagged Queesland;Floods on January 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My New Year’s Eve
Posted in Emergency Management, Red Cross, tagged first aid, melbourne city, meoc, new year's eve on December 31, 2009 | 3 Comments »
How did you spend New Year’s Eve? I know how I spent mine – in the Municipal Emergency Operations Centre (MEOC) for Melbourne City, as Red Cross’s representative for the New Year’s Eve celebrations. Red Cross had been contracted to provide first aid in Federation Square. It’s just short of 9:00pm. The fact that I [...]
Marysville – Showing Our Support
Posted in Red Cross, Travel, tagged Marysville on December 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
With Carol and me both on leave this week, we’ve been looking for a couple of day trips to do. Carol had seen a news story on the new supermarket opening in Marysville and how the locals were encouraging visitors to come along and help get the town back on its feet after the fires. [...]
Emergency Services Volunteers – We Need You
Posted in Emergency Management, Red Cross, tagged CFA, Red Cross, SES, volunteer on July 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was super-impressed to hear that a colleague has recently joined up with the SES. He has a full day training session today. Nice work. We need all the emergency services volunteers we can get. Whether it’s working with our great volunteers at Red Cross, or with other teffific groups like CFA or SES, we [...]
Australasian Inter-service Incident Management System (AIIMS)
Posted in Emergency Management, Red Cross, tagged AIIMS on June 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Well, isn’t that a mouthful? I wanted to spend a bit of time blogging about AIIMS. Why? Firstly, it’s something that I need to become much more strongly across than I am at the moment. I figure that if I have to write about it, to do that properly, I’ll need to read all the [...]
Technology – I Just Love It
Posted in Red Cross, Technology, tagged iPhone, twitter on May 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I spent a chunk of yesterday Tweeting (is that really a word now?) for Red Cross (www.twitter.com/ausredcross_em), trying to get as much information out there as I could on the Red Cross activities for the Queensland & New South Wales floods. It got me thinking about how things have changed. I first started interacting with [...]
Red Cross Appreciation
Posted in Red Cross, tagged bushfire, volunteer on May 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Red Cross recently sent out a lapel badge to each of its volunteers in Victoria. Along with the new uniform items and the upcoming afternoon tea with the Governor for those who assisted with the bushfires, they are small but greatly appreciated ways of recognising our volunteers. Well done to the team in North Melbourne.
How Come Fun Runs & Stupidity Seem To Go Hand In Hand?
Posted in Red Cross, tagged ambulance, first aid, fun run, Health & Fitness, hospital, Red Cross, stupidity on April 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In my Red Cross volunteering capacity, I recently looked after the radio communications and other agency liaison activities for the Herald Sun Run For The Kids. This is a fun run (gotta love that name – don’t sound like fun to me) where, in the longer form, participants run from the Domain in Melbourne, half way to [...]
Recent Twitter Outbursts
- @maireaddoyle Is he going to Fremantle? 15 hours ago
- I just unlocked the "Explorer" badge on @foursquare for checking in to twenty-five different places! 4sq.com/Lz958f 17 hours ago
- Looks like purple handbags are back in vogue. #fb 18 hours ago
- Dees players 9 & 44. Don’t know who you are, but that was disgraceful. Where’s he effort? #aflbluesdees 19 hours ago
- @SaintFrankly Every night as I lay down my head, I thank the Lord that he’s on the other side of the country. #gosaints 19 hours ago
Chelsea SES
- Embankment Gr Chelsea closed due to fire near corner of Station Street. Fire & Police on scene, take extra care in this area. 2 days ago
- A couple more jobs have come through. A tree causing a traffic hazard in Mordy and a leaking roof in Edithvale. #VICSES 2 days ago
- Only 2 jobs so far for Chelsea. A tree in Aspendale and a building damage in Carrum. Nice work. #VICSES 2 days ago
- No jobs to date in the current inclement weather. 2 days ago
- New battery in the pager. Just have to wait and see now. theage.com.au/environment/we… If you need SES tonight, dial 132500. #VICSES 3 days ago
MCC Bowls
- SIBC Thur twilight v Mentone: Cave 9 - 21; Ziller 5 - 19. Competing mostly against Premier Division bowlers. 3 days ago
- Saturday's winter pennant sides. mccbowls.org/wp-content/upl… 5 days ago
- SIBC Tues twilight v Armadale: Hayes 19-12; Winther 13-22. Down overall by 2. 5 days ago
- Saturday winter pennant results. mccbowls.org/wp-content/upl… 5 days ago
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