Wild weather combined with a busy training schedule has kept Eurobodalla SES volunteers busy in the past week.
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Moruya SES volunteers were busy last Friday searching for a missing man in Dalmeny, and then late the following afternoon, three of them covered a leaking roof in Batemans Bay.
Tuesday’s strong winds knocked down a tree in Mossy Point.
Acting Moruya unit controller Chris Zammit said the tree had fallen over a fence and was blocking access to a yard, so the volunteers cut it up and removed it.
Mr Zammit was alerted of a tree down on the Princes Highway at Turlinjah in the early hours of Thursday, but then informed that a Eurobodalla Shire Council traffic management crews would handle the job.
Batemans Bay SES volunteers were busy on Tuesday, first at Long Beach where a fallen tree was threatening a house.
They cut the tree and then covered the damage to the roof.
Their second job was at Yarrabee Drive at Catalina, where they secured a large tree threatening a house and prepared it for further work.
They then went to Dolphin Avenue, Batemans Bay, where they cut the limbs of a tree which had come down on a house, and covered the damaged section of roof with plastic.
On Wednesday they went to the aid of their fellow volunteers at Batemans Bay Marine Rescue, when high winds damaged aerials on the roof of their base at Hanging Rock.
They got up onto the roof and removed the aerials.
Batemans Bay Fire and Rescue responded to Shady Willows Holiday Park in Batemans Bay late on Tuesday morning where a tree had come down on a Holden Commodore SV6.
They cut the tree up and removed it and swept up glass from the smashed windscreen and window.
Volunteers from Moruya and Batemans Bay SES took part in a interagency training day with the RFS and St John Ambulance at RFS Bimbimbie on Saturday, and another group of Batemans Bay SES members undertook a road crash rescue course.