Photo Gallery
The Emergency Management Australia (EMA) Photo Gallery is freely available to members of the public. These images may be reproduced for personal or research purposes.
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Title: Remote Bush Search and Rescue Exercise
Author: Kevin Withnall, Wollongong City State Emergency Service, NSW
SES personnel training in the Dharawal State Forest.
Order No. 09#71315DOC
Title: The Lifesavers
Author: Philip Mosgrove, Merewether Surf Life Saving Club
Lifesavers practising rescue and resuscitation.
Order No. 09#71329DOC
Title: Stretcher Handling
Author: Kevin Withnall, Wollongong City State Emergency Service, NSW
SES rescue crew practising a stretcher rescue, with a bucket of water replacing an actual person. If the water does not spill out, the person is being moved safely.
Order No. 09#71325DOC
Title: SES Rescue Crew
Author: Ray Faggotter, Coffs Harbour SES, Sapphire Beach, NSW
A casualty being placed in a litter in order to remove him from the scene of an accident for delivery to hospital.
Order No. 09#71373DOC
Title: In Control
Author: Bronwyn Hastings, Dimboola Country Fire Authority, Victoria
A firefighter in an extreme heat scene of a fast-moving grass fire.
Order No. 09#71321DOC
Title: More Water, Please
Author: Ashley Hosking, South Australia Country Fire Service
The fire is in a charcoal storage shed and took nine hours to extinguish. The officer is signalling for more water.
Order No. 09#71393DOC
Title: Need a Drink
Author: Ashley Hosking, South Australia Country Fire Service
A CFS volunteer bob-cat driver takes a break from working at a huge shed fire.
Order No. 09#71395DOC
Title: Working Together
Author: Fred Tyler, Shoalhaven Marine Rescue Association, NSW
Royal Australian Navy’s 816 Squadron participating in a recovery exercise off Crookhaven Heads with the Marine Rescue SA8 vessel and crew.
Order No. 09#71527DOC
Title: Back Me Up
Author: Keith Pakenham, Country Fire Authority, Victoria
Volunteer fire officers work a foam mixer onto a substation transformer fire in the Dandenong South industrial estate.
Order No. 09#71589DOC
Title: School Visit
Author: Ashley Hosking, South Australia Country Fire Service
A volunteer fire officer demonstrating equipment to primary school children as part of the brigade’s community relations program.
Order No. 09#71669DOC
Title: You’re a Lifesaver
Author: Geoff Potter, Sunshine Coast Newspapers, Noosa Junction, Queensland
Rescued sailor thanking a Noosa Coastguard officer for plucking him from his burning yacht.
Order No. 09#71770DOC
Title: All in a Day’s Work
Author: Will Russell, The Community News Group, Perth, Western Australia
Kalamunda Bushfire Brigade officers taking a break from fighting the worst fires they had ever faced, in the Pickering Brook and Mt Dale hills area behind Perth.
Order No. 09#71815DOC
Title: All Together Now
Author: Keith Pakenham, Country Fire Authority, Victoria
Four CFA members hold a 64mm hose line onto the face of burning car bodies and scrap metal. The fire, at Dandenong, took 12 hours to extinguish.
Order No. 09#71532DOC
Title: More Paperwork
Author: Keith Pakenham, Country Fire Authority, Victoria
A volunteer firefighter from the Noble Park Urban Fire Brigade takes the paperwork seriously at a motor accident in the Dandenong ranges, while other officers discuss the situation with paramedics.
Order No. 09#71535DOC
Title: Team Effort
Author: Keith Pakenham, Country Fire Authority, Victoria
CFA firefighters from Hallam and Dandenong brigades work with paramedics to release a trapped woman from her damaged car.
Order No. 09#71570DOC
Title: Road Crash Exercise
Author: Ashley Hosking, South Australia Country Fire Service
This road crash exercise shows Country Fire Service, Police and Ambulance officers extracting an ‘injured’ person from a simulated road accident.
Order No. 09#71376DOC
Title: Ready 1, 2
Author: Ashley Hosking, South Australia Country Fire Service
Crews in hot pad training with an instructor (right) with protective clothing and breathing apparatus.
Order No. 09#71386DOC
Title: Take a Break
Author: Ashley Hosking, South Australia Country Fire Service
Two firefighters, complete with breathing equipment take a break during a shed fire at Balhannah.
Order No. 09#71389DOC
Title: Make Sure…
Author: Ashley Hosking, South Australia Country Fire Service
CFS officers dampen the remains of a grass fire.
Order No. 09#71521DOC
Title: Smile and Don’t Get Your Feet Wet!
Author: Pip McGowan, South Australia Country Fire Service
An SES volunteer with a CFS firefighter as a patient, practise vertical rescue techniques.
Order No. 09#71523DOC
Title: Lucky Escape
Author: Ashley Hosking, South Australia Country Fire Service
CFS crews responding to a single vehicle roll-over. Despite the scene that confronted them the crews soon found that the driver had escaped without injury.
Order No. 09#71391DOC
Title: On the Count of Three, Pull!
Author: Ashley Hosking, South Australia Country Fire Service
SES and CFS volunteers practising vertical rescue at Port Victoria.
Order No. 09#71398DOC
Title: Fatal Accident – Wallabadah
Author: Barry Smith, the Northern Daily Leader, Tamworth, New South Wales
Quirindi Volunteer Rescue Association and Rural Fire Service officers assisting paramedics at the scene of a motor vehicle crash.
Order No. 09#71641DOC
Title: Out at Last
Author: Keith Pakenham, Country Fire Authority, Keysborough, Victoria
A photo showing the complex extraction procedure of an industrial machine accident victim. CFA members helped paramedics and police rescue a man, who survived with no loss of limbs.
Order No. 09#71766DOC