St John Ambulance SA Annual Report 2022-23

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St John Ambulance Australia SA Inc.

State Emergency Response

As a community organisation operating purely for the benefit of the South Australian community, we take our role in the State Emergency Management Plan very seriously. St John SA is a participating organisation within the Ambulance Services Functional Support Group of the State Emergency Management Plan, increasing the state’s preparedness, response and recovery capacity in the event of a State Emergency. We can readily mobilise responders to provide support to emergency services during times of bushfires, floods, extreme weather events, and unprecedented events like we experienced with the COVID-19 pandemic. One such example of this support in the past year involved engaging St John SA volunteers in the State Emergency Information Call Centre Capability (SEICCC) to provide support to those affected by the Riverland flooding event.