WOW! Australia goes Orange for SES Volunteers on 13 November - GWN7

Wear Orange Wednesday (WOW Day) on Wednesday 13 November is a national day of recognition and appreciation for SES volunteers. It focusses on calling on the community to express to the 40,000 SES volunteers across the country their gratitude in a simple but highly visible gesture by wearing orange, which is the official colour of all State Emergency Services.

There are 40,000 SES volunteers across Australia who each year collectively provide around a million hours of their time to help communities in times of natural disasters and emergencies. These dedicated people are on call to respond 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

SES volunteers have a passion for helping people in the worst of weather and at the hardest of times, helping with storm and flood operations and other rescue activities.

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