Tweed Heads State Emergency Service
FOR EMERGENCY HELP IN FLOODS OR STORMS, CONTACT THE TWEED HEADS SES UNIT BY TELEPHONING 132 500
CURRENT SENIOR OffICERS
Unit Controller: Kristine McDonald
- Operations: Debbie Giblin
- Rescue Officer : Reg Sanders
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GENERAL UNIT INFORMATION
New volunteer members are ALWAYS welcome!
If you're aged 16 or over, and interested in assisting your local community in times of need (flood, storm, tsunami, emergency service support), please contact us at Tweed Heads SES as we are always looking for new members.
Tweed Heads SES trains every Monday night from 7pm to 930pm. Anyone interested in joining the SES is welcome to come along and see for themselves what it's all about! (No appointment necessary, just ask someone wearing orange where you can find our Membership Coordinator, Wendy).
Our SES Headquaters building is located at Lot 682 Pioneer Parade Banora Point (at the end of the cal-de-sac). Our mailing address is PO Box 500 Banora Point NSW 2486.
For life threatening emergencies, call 000
For emergency help in floods and storms call 132 500.
For general information or recruitment inquiries call 1800 201 000
Email: twh.ops@ses.nsw.gov.au
Web: www.ses.nsw.gov.au
UNIT HISTORY
"The Tweed Heads SES began life as the Kingscliff Sub-Local Control to the Tweed Shire Local Headquarters at Murwillumbah, with a responsibility for the lower end of the Tweed Valley from Tumbulgum to the coast. The first Unit Controller, who was appointed in 1967, was Harold Hines. Hines was informed that he should be seeking to build a Unit of 66 people, something he believed would be impossible from a population of about 3,000 at that time in his area of responsibility.
The Unit trained and operated initially in a public hall in Kingscliff. This was most unsatisfactory since the SES had to share the hall with paying tenants and at times the members arrived for training to find they had been displaced by other groups and had to use the local Ambulance station. Later they had the use of some council-owned rooms. Eventually, in 1978, a purpose built Headquarters was provided at Banora Point, and this facility has been expanded since with the acquisition of a toilet block and the construction of a storage shed and meeting and dining area. In 2004 the Unit had two vehicles, two flood boats and about 25 members. In 1976 there were about 60 members.
The Tweed Heads SES has had quite a few name changes over the years. Initially Kingscliff Unit, it then became the Tweed Coast Unit in 1976, the Tweed Heads Unit in 1990, the Banora Unit in 1993 before being changed back to Tweed Heads Unit around 2007. A retired Unit Controller, Tom Flood, believed that the Unit finally started to gain local support when it's name was changed to Tweed Heads Unit.
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