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Speaker 1: We know that a team of Northern Territory Emergency Service

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Speaker 1: Members are traveling to New South Wales to support emergency

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Speaker 1: response efforts to the widespread flooding that is being experienced

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Speaker 1: in southern states. Now joining me on the line right

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Speaker 1: now is Northern Territory Emergency Services. Were one of the

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Speaker 1: Northern Territory Emergency Service manager members. I should say, if

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Speaker 1: I can get my words this morning in Carlton, good

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Speaker 1: morning to you, Ian, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie, Good morning listeners.

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Speaker 1: Now, Ian, are you already in New South Wales?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, The Northern Territory Magacy of Service crews arrived yesterday

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Speaker 2: in New South Wales, eight volunteers and myself. I'm based

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Speaker 2: at Wollongong and our volunteers have beat that meet up to.

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Speaker 1: Maul Rey and Mate, how are things going in those

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Speaker 1: different locations because I think for a lot of us

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Speaker 1: in the territory, we see those images on the news,

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Speaker 1: but we really don't know just how tough things are.

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Speaker 2: New South Wales they've copped over that or this year.

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Speaker 2: They've been going for ten months, so they're fatigue in

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Speaker 2: their volunteers and their emergency services is really starting to show.

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Speaker 2: As I said, we've been going for ten months. They've

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Speaker 2: got over one hundred warnings out at the moment and

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Speaker 2: will quite a few of their rivers are still in

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Speaker 2: that major flood levels and they've got a bit of

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Speaker 2: a reprieve and over the next few days with some

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Speaker 2: warmer weather and dry weather. But we've just been informed

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Speaker 2: that there's more rain coming in with potential of fifty

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Speaker 2: t one hundred millimeters of rain early next week.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, it's like it's exactly the news that they're

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Speaker 1: not wanting to hear.

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Speaker 2: No, they don't want to and once again, the ground

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Speaker 2: is so saturated that this rain just won't absorb into

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Speaker 2: the ground. It will just run off straight into the

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Speaker 2: river systems and increase the water levels again.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and what kind of work and what kind of

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Speaker 1: assistance are our two teams of Northern Territory volunteers going

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Speaker 1: to be providing.

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Speaker 2: So they're based up at more reeds. They've been tast

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Speaker 2: this morning. They're undertaking damage set of the properties and

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Speaker 2: assisting homeowners.

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Speaker 3: In assessing what damage has been done.

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Speaker 2: To the homes, the properties, buildings within the town, other infrastructure.

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Speaker 2: And then that's all been compiled and that goes in

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Speaker 2: and assists the other services to come in and start

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Speaker 2: that recovery process, try and get people back to a

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Speaker 2: new normality and then if there any requests that are

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Speaker 2: for work to come in or further the damage that

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Speaker 2: has been fund rescues or storm damage carving a rouge.

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Speaker 2: So they're undertaking those activities as they come in from

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Speaker 2: the members of the public.

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Speaker 1: And where are the members of emergency servers, you know,

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Speaker 1: where are they actually from? Are they just from Darwin

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Speaker 1: or where where else?

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Speaker 2: Now there's a group from Darwin or Palmerston volunteer unit

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Speaker 2: and also a group of members from our Springs volunteer unit.

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Speaker 1: And how many how many in total?

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Speaker 2: So there's eight volunteers that have come up, which is

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Speaker 2: a great effort from the Northern Terrice Emergency Service, our

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Speaker 2: voluntees to be able to take time out and undertake

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Speaker 2: this important work and assist now interstate comrades and the

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Speaker 2: emergency services and the community and make what.

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Speaker 1: I know, even for yourself, you're obviously a task force commander.

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Speaker 1: What kind of work are you undertaking while you're away?

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Speaker 2: So I'm monitoring the cruise, assisting our crews in any

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Speaker 2: requirements that they need. We've got what's called a joint

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Speaker 2: Liaison unit for all the interstate cruise that are here.

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Speaker 2: So there's cruise from Queensland, crews from Western Australia all

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Speaker 2: come across, so there's a team working together managing our

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Speaker 2: individual teams from each state that we're working together as

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Speaker 2: a team ourselves. We're starting to look at compiling all

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Speaker 2: the safety bulletins that have been issued so far and

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Speaker 2: get them together so that when each a cruise arrive

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Speaker 2: they can have those safety messages given to them upon

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Speaker 2: arrival rather than having to waste and see what the

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Speaker 2: issues are at in the field. There's quite a few

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Speaker 2: issues out there that they need to be aware of

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Speaker 2: and it is such.

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Speaker 1: A team effort, you know, like I think that poor

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Speaker 1: old New South Wales, so southern states, like you've said,

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Speaker 1: they've just been copying it now for quite some time.

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Speaker 1: We've obviously got our members, our volunteers heading across or

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Speaker 1: they're there to help, but it's not just sort of

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Speaker 1: you know, it does mean that those volunteers they're having

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Speaker 1: to travel, they're having to travel away from their families,

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Speaker 1: they're having to obviously take time away from work, but

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Speaker 1: they're doing it to help their fellow Aussies.

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Speaker 3: They are and that's what they quite a few of

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Speaker 3: them have said that's what they're joined for. It doesn't

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Speaker 3: matter where they undertake and use their skills. As you say,

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Speaker 3: we've come across, and it doesn't matter what badge or

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Speaker 3: what state we've come from. We're all working for the

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Speaker 3: one common goal and helping the community, helping those members

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Speaker 3: that have.

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Speaker 2: Been affected by the floods. And it's not just the

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Speaker 2: first flood some communities, it's the flood this year.

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Speaker 1: Gee, it must be tough for some of the people

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Speaker 1: that you're meeting on the ground, you know, that have

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Speaker 1: just really been battling hard this year, any isn't it?

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Speaker 2: It comes off like quite a number of years of

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Speaker 2: the twenty nineteen, twenty twenty buyers, a lot of people

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Speaker 2: stuffed when COVID came in, and now ten months of flooding.

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Speaker 2: So it's been that cumulative effect of over a number

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Speaker 2: of the years that they've had to struggle and go

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Speaker 2: through with disasters and incidents and emergencies that have occurred.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good on you guys, I and good on you

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Speaker 1: and those teams that are there helping out with that flooding.

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate you having a chat with me this morning,

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Speaker 1: and I'm sure that what you're doing is very much

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Speaker 1: appreciated by those people that you are helping.

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Speaker 2: No problem, thank you very much. But yes, we'd just

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Speaker 2: like to thank the volunteers, their families and their employers.

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Speaker 2: As you said, their employers have let them go for

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Speaker 2: a week out of their workplaces, so they're having to

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Speaker 2: do other members of staff having to do their work,

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Speaker 2: So we do thank the employers and their families.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, good on them, you know. And yeah,

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Speaker 1: it is just all about helping each other because you

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Speaker 1: never know as well when we're going to need that

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Speaker 1: assistance from other states. So I think it's such an

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Speaker 1: important thing for us to do.

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Speaker 2: No problem, thanks to you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.