Construction underway at new state-of-the-art SES headquarters

The Northern Daily Leader

A new multi-million dollar high-level emergency response control centre is being built on Bridge Street, West Tamworth, for the NSW SES North Western Zone.

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00:00 So in here we've got the construction occurring for the new headquarters that will be established

00:08 here and will hopefully be moving in by July 24.

00:12 The site at the airport has been temporary and it's been there as our staging ground

00:16 as we start building in Zazion.

00:17 We've been established there for the last 12 months while we've been progressing the

00:18 works in the new headquarters.

00:19 So now we've got most of our staff on board, it's now the next step is creating the permanence

00:26 and term work with our headquarters.

00:31 So this building here is going to have our main business office spaces so we'll actually

00:38 be able to do a lot of that planning, a lot of that training, a lot of that resourcing

00:41 our units from here but we'll also be able to control a level 3 incident should that

00:46 eventuate up in this zone.

00:47 There's been a lot of relationships that need building with communities, with our volunteers

00:52 but we're getting there.

00:54 The work hasn't by any means been actually achieved at this stage, it's just a starting

00:59 step.

01:00 So we work with our units and our communities to make sure that they're adequately prepared

01:09 and educated with regards to the risks in those communities but also helping our units

01:15 train, resource and prepare to respond to incidents within those communities with floods

01:21 and storms.

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