Central Coast SES Volunteers at breaking point after storm "year from hell" - Daily telegraph

WEARY State Emergency Service volunteers have been left at breaking point after a storm “year from hell” on the Central Coast.

Dozens of Gosford and Wyong SES volunteers are working the equivalent of two full-time jobs to help residents battered by the barrage of big storms.

“It’s been like Groundhog Day,” Gosford SES controller Rolf Garda said.

“I’ve been with the SES for more than 25 years and the continuity of storms over the past year has been as bad as I’ve ever seen it.

“It’s just been the same group of about 50 volunteers at each station who have been regularly going out to do the jobs. And they are ­really feeling the pinch.”

The “big three” storms — which resulted in more than 4750 calls for help to the SES — started last April when cyclonic conditions ripped the region apart.

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