Yarram SES Unit

Victoria State Emergency Service (VICSES) is a volunteer-based organisation, providing emergency assistance to minimise the impact of emergencies and strengthen the community’s capacity to plan, respond and recover, when emergencies occur.

Victoria State Emergency Service (VICSES) is the control agency for flood, storm, tsunami, earthquake and landslide throughout Victoria, and provide the largest Road Crash Rescue network in Australia, with specialist teams in 104 of our 154 units across the state.

We also provide support for other incident response activities, including:

• Road, air, industrial and rail (RAIR) – vehicle extrication.
• Fire support.
• Search and rescue including alpine rescue – missing or injured persons, and vertical and high angle rescue (specific locations only).
• Structure – industrial incidents and Urban Search and Rescue, building damage or collapse.
• Land – missing persons, evidence search, crime scene protection, lighting (crime scene, vehicle accident area), lighting points during traffic management.
• Lakes/rivers/caves – missing persons, evidence search, marine rescue.
• Swift water rescue (land based).
• Marine/offshore rescue (VICSES Inverloch Unit only).

In 2024 - 2025, VICSES responded to 35,940 emergency incidents across the state, contributing a total of 342,374 hours helping Victorians in need.