News
11 March, 2025
Thank you SES, Energex, councils, police and QFD
QUEENSLAND Fire and Rescue swift water rescue firefighters were incredibly busy on Sunday and Monday, attending more than 150 water incidents, including rescues and evacuations across Ipswich, Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast.
In Moreton Bay, over 700 tasks were recorded since 7pm Saturday night across with Moreton Bay SES.
The SES is being supported by the Rural Fire Service Queensland, with all operational crews active and working as fast as they can to manage the situations.
Moreton Bay also received assistance from Townsville Local Disaster Management Centre, who were deployed on Sunday, March 9, and teams from Northern Territory and Western Australia, who arrived on Monday, March 10, to relieve the Local Disaster Management Team who have been working 24/7 for more than a week now, preparing for and managing operations and community safety due to Tropical Cyclone Alfred.
Several SES units joined together to help with cleanup efforts in Redland Bay, including volunteers from the Villeneuve Rural Fire Brigade, the Mount Kilcoy Sandy Creek Rural Fire Brigade, the Hazeldean Rural Fire Brigade, the Stanmore Rural Fire Brigade, and Delaneys Creek Rural Fire Service.
Over 10,000 people are still without power across the City of Moreton Bay on Tuesday, March 11, and over 250 still affected in Somerset, with Energex crews having worked around the clock to restore power across South East Queensland.
Sunday and Monday Energex crews worked in torrential rain, with one crew member saying restoring power was “like someone spraying you directly in the face with a garden hose while you’re trying to get a job done.”
Since the cyclone started to impact the coast, crews have restored more than half of the affected customers, with around 2,000 staff in the field from as far away as Cairns.
