Cherry Gardens fire 15 February 2021

Cherry Gardens fire 15 February 2021

State Recovery Office has provided SAVEM with this link operated by the Adelaide Hills Council: https://engage.ahc.sa.gov.au/cherry-gardens-fire This is information about bushfire recovery for the local community. SAVEM encourages the community to make use of the...

SAVEM ALERT – SAVEM on fireground

SAVEM is an accredited Tier 2 Emergency Service. We are structured as an independent 100% volunteer not-for-profit organisation. Therefore, SAVEM has no “owners” or affiliated organisations. Participants with SAVEM are only deployed once they have...
Fire Updates Cherry Gardens Fire

Fire Updates Cherry Gardens Fire

For news on the Cherry Gardens fire please go to “LATEST NEWS” and click on “FIRE UPDATES”. The fire updates button on the home page is currently not visible on all devices – we are working to fix this problem. The photo below shows SAVEM...
First training for 2021 – Air Shelter Team

First training for 2021 – Air Shelter Team

Happy New Training Year! The first SAVEM training event for 2021 was held successfully on 10 January – the Air Shelter Team. Volunteers new to the team comprised 50% of participants, and were “buddied up” with an experienced mentor. Team Leader Deb...
Welcome to 2021 – upcoming training events

Welcome to 2021 – upcoming training events

SAVEM finished 2020 with a great team effort to make up for lost training time due to COVID. From 29 November 2020 we successfully held four training events in 11 days – 1 x Level 1, 2 x Operational Updates and 1 x special topic. The Training calendar for January to...
SAVEM and the Bushfire Royal Commission

SAVEM and the Bushfire Royal Commission

The federal Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements (known colloquially as the Bushfire Royal Commission) issued its report on 28th October 2020 and this was received by the federal parliament on 30th October 2020. Like almost 1400 other...