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Code 4 - Negotiated response time. Proceed without lights or siren. Road rules must be obeyed. For Queensland Police code 1 and code 2 are exactly the same response time. Rarely will a job be given a priority code 1, instead officers will (in most cases) be told to respond code 2. Northern Territory
QAS provides emergency response services, pre-hospital patient care, specialised transport services, coordination of aero-medical services and inter-hospital transfers to all of Queensland, accounting around 4.7 million people spread over 1,727,000 km 2 (667,000 sq mi).
Code grey: security needed, someone is unarmed, but is a threat to themselves or others. Code blue: life-threatening medical emergency. Code brown: external emergency (disaster, mass casualties etc.) Code orange: evacuation. Code purple: medical emergency. Code red: fire. Code yellow: internal emergency.
The headquarters are located at the Emergency Services Complex in Kedron, Brisbane. In 2021, personnel included 2,600 full-time firefighters and 2,000 on-call auxiliary firefighters, and approximately 28,000 Rural Fire Service volunteers (3000 available for response). QFD front-line operations are supported by non-operational administration and ...
The SES is a volunteer-based community-located emergency support service, providing emergency and rescue services in times of natural disasters, and other emergencies. The main roles are preparing for, and responding to different type of emergencies and disasters from a local level to a national disaster much like the 2010–2011 Queensland ...
On 31 December, the state had 2,266 new cases of COVID-19 in the 12 hours between 7am and 7pm. There were nearly 14,000 active cases and 80 people in hospital being treated for COVID with 1 in intensive care. 86.6% of the state population (aged 16+) had received 2 vaccine doses, 90.7% at least 1 dose.
Special Emergency Response Team (SERT) is the Police Tactical Group of the Queensland Police Service (QPS) and also provides a high angle rescue response. [3] SERT provides the QPS with the ability to respond to high risk situations incidents statewide. [2] SERT is based in Brisbane and Cairns to ensure that specialists capabilities are ...
Emergency operations center (EOC): An emergency operations center is a central command and control facility responsible for carrying out the principles of emergency preparedness and emergency management, or disaster management functions at a strategic level during an emergency, and ensuring the continuity of operation of a company, political ...