Simulated rescue at Bathurst tests SES and NSW Fire Service - Western Advocate

IT’S dark. You can’t see your hand in front of your face and you don’t know which way is out.

You hear footsteps, getting louder and coming towards you. Your heart starts beating faster.

Then you hear breathing, heavy breathing through a mask like a Star Wars movie from decades ago.

This was the situation facing Bathurst State Emergency Service (SES) volunteer Jane Talbot, who agreed to be a ‘victim’ in an emergency rescue simulation on Tuesday night.

Crews from Fire and Rescue NSW and the NSW Rural Fire Service were given the task of finding victims caught in a fire in a boarding house during the simulation.

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