Northam and Districts State Emergency Service

26/08/2026

Another interesting training night.
We always need to keep up our skills, and reversing an SES trailer is not as easy as it looks.
As we often finish up in some vary interesting situations when we respond to requests for assistance from the community, especially late at night, we need to keep up our driving skills.
Last Monday night we did that for trailer reversing.
And the gate the members had to reverse through demanded concentration and skill.
Well done everyone.

14/07/2026

Training Never Stops

Northam & Districts SES Volunteers practicing casualty handling on Monday night.

SES Volunteers not only help people in storms, they also do many other things. They assist the Police in land searches, carry out rescues and other support.

In fact, they assist in almost every natural disaster.

Even though a dummy was the casualty last night, all the same skill and care is taken in the training. The importance of the coffee cup is that it was placed on the dummy, full of water, and the dummy was transported through a difficult obstacle course, and no water was permitted to be spilt.

The object is to provide as comfortable a rescue as physically possible.

Members excelled and the dummy had a very comfortable and dry ride.

23/06/2026

Last weekend members from Northam and Merredin SES Units completed a chainsaw operator course.

The course involves two full days, with plenty of actual practice to develop the skills needed.

The 3 happy students at the successful ending of the course, preparing to return to their Units.

02/06/2026

20/05/2026

Today is wear ORANGE Wednesday WOW day.

A day to celebrate the achievements of our SES Members locally and around the state.

We are heading into Storm season if you are interested in joining the unit please reach out to the page.

05/05/2026

Last night members conducted training on setting up our portable radio communications Antenna known as a Clark Mast.

This piece of equipment can be deployed to areas with limited two way radio reception to extend our area of operations

04/05/2026

Roof Safety System Builder Training

Northam, Merredin and Toodyay SES and Ballidu VFES members attended Northam SES Unit and participated in a training course to convert them to use the new Roof Safety System in preparation for the coming months callouts.

The new safety system is an improvement on the old system, and is easier to use and provides more safety for our members.

Working in the rain and on wet roofs is very dangerous and the use of a roof safety system is necessary to prevent injury to members.

This is just one of many skills learned by SES and VFES members so they can assist their community.

12/04/2026

On Saturday Volunteers from Northam and Toodyay SES joined other Volunteer emergency services to assist with marshalling and crowd support while also assisting DFES with a display stand at the Beverley airshow. This was a very entertaining day for our members while supporting the community.

SES is not just about dealing with natural hazards but assisting with other community Safety tasks aswel.

Thank you to all that could assist.

31/03/2026

Last night members did a bit of map and navigation exercise with a Easter twist.
Teams were told that the Easter bunny had lost his Easter eggs and were tasked with co-ordinates to locate the missing eggs.
Our teams found all the lost eggs and were rewarded with a big bag of goodies from the Easter bunny as a thank you.
Training doesn't have to be boring to learn and the team had fun.
If you are interested in learning new skills please contact the page for further information.