Most of our local SES volunteers finally get a chance to stop and breath this morning after a very busy past ten days.
The agency received over 120 calls for help along the Far South Coast as a result of the wet weather event which kicked off last Thursday.
The activity started in Eden before moving to Bega and Batemans Bay.
That came after units helped out the RFS behind the scenes during the Brassknocker Bushfire.
Sapphire Coast Controller John Mills said units have been pretty busy.
“On the Sapphire Coast we had about 80 odd incidents that we responded to, ranging from sandbagging to roofs and tarps, obviously in trees down, blocking both driveways and roads, and finally, we’ve also gone in and helped some people get out of where they were. not rescue, but help them get out because they couldn’t drive out,” Mr Mills said.
“Eden was the main place on Thursday night where most of the action was, then it moved up towards Bega,” he said.
“Bega’s been pretty busy over the next couple of days as well. We gratefully accepted the support of the RFS helping us in a few places, and equally, we were very, very happy that, a lot of people were proactive and came and got sandbags before the event.”
Yeah, so we had about 30 to 40 requests for assistance over the last couple of days, and yeah, the crews were at debatement today, especially we’re going all night till quite late last night, and uh, but, and they’re going again today, but they’re now all pretty good and they’re starting to rest there. All jobs are finished.
Eurobodalla Controller Peter Collins said there was no major damage caused.
“Yeah, they’re mostly leaking roofs and trees down for the big two. A lot of trees down on roads as well and things like that,” Mr Collins said.
“There are things people can do to prevent this. Certainly cleaning out the gutters and looking after your roof,” he said.
“The maintenance of your roof is very important. Probably about half of them were like that, like quite often.”
