SES welcomes AAMI boost

SPRINGVALE’S State Emergency Services (SES) crew shared in $500,000 of rescue equipment donations courtesy of insurance company AAMI last week.
The funding from AAMI services 140 operational and 10 support units in the Victorian SES.
Equipment to be bought with the money will include GPS transmitters, car stabilisation kits and chainsaws, which will be used in rescue situations.
AAMI Victorian executive manager Sue Jellie said this was the sixth year the company had sponsored the SES.
“We’re pleased to support the SES whose volunteers give so generously of their time in training and responding to natural disasters and other emergencies, such as major weather events, road accidents and search and rescue operations,” she said.
“We are especially grateful that so much of SES’s work goes to assist AAMI’s customers who have become victims of these kinds of events.
“The equipment provided in today’s hand over will also be a major boost to the Springvale unit’s capacity to respond to emergencies.”