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Guardian Emergency Services is a combined fire, rescue, state emergency and emergency management organisation serving a regional area of Victoria that stretches from the coast to the western volcanic plains.

Guardian Emergency Services is a combined fire, rescue, state emergency and emergency management organisation serving a regional area of Victoria that stretches from the coast to the western volcanic plains. Its career and volunteer members respond to structure fires, grass and bush fires, road crash rescue, hazardous materials incidents, storm and flood damage, land and swiftwater search and rescue, and industrial and domestic rescues. The organisation also runs the regional emergency communications centre that takes emergency calls and dispatches appliances, delivers community safety and fire prevention programs, and leads regional emergency planning, exercises, evacuation and recovery work with councils and partner agencies.

The organisation is organised into six divisions under the Chief Officer. Fire and Rescue Operations runs 28 fire stations, eleven of them staffed around the clock by career crews on a rotating four platoon roster and the rest crewed by volunteers. State Emergency Service Operations runs fourteen volunteer units with a duty officer system. The communications centre operates 24 hours a day on a three shift pattern. Community Safety, Emergency Management and Recovery, and Corporate Services, Training and Safety work business hours from regional headquarters and the Ballan campus, and every division surges to a regional operations structure when a major incident is declared.

Every member goes home at the end of the shift, and no property or task is worth a life.

Members serve the community in its worst moments with calm, competence and respect.

Career staff, volunteers and partner agencies work as one under a shared command system.

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