Emergency Management Queensland was the

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division of the Department of Community Safety. The

Queensland Fire and Rescue Service The Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES) is the primary provider of fire and emergency services in Queensland, Australia. The QFES was established in 2013 to improve the coordination and planning of emergency services, adopting an " ...

also belonged to the department. It aimed to plan and prepare for disasters as well as rescue and protect persons, property and the environment from disaster and emergency.

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, Minister for Police and Community Safety was responsible for the division.

Functions

Emergency Management Queensland was responsible for

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, disaster awareness and the coordination of various rescue, response and recovery services in the state. The division provided support to the

State Emergency Service The State Emergency Service (SES) is the name used by a number of organisations in Australia that provide assistance during and after major incidents. Specifically, the service deals with floods, storms and tsunamis, but can also assist in ot ...

in Queensland, worked closely with the

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and coordinated volunteers for disaster clean-up operations. It also provided an

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service called EMQ Helicopter Rescue. The division had two

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utility helicopters and three AW139 twin-engined helicopters with one each based in Cairns, Townsville and Brisbane. All three AW139s were grounded after the same model aircraft crashed in China and Brazil in August 2011. Prior to this grounding the helicopters experienced tail and rotor problems and were the subject of criticism over their expense from supporters of other rescue helicopters, which means two of EMQs Bell 412s were used for medivacs during the AW139 grounding. The other rescue helicopters operating in Queensland are RACQ LifeFlight with 14 government funded helicopters, RACQ CQ Rescue, RACQ Capricorn Helicopter Rescue, RACQ NQ Rescue and the Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter Service.

Operations

Emergency Management Queensland may assist communities experiencing threats from floods, cyclones, storm surge, severe storms, landslides, heatwaves and bushfires and to a lesser extent earthquakes and tsunamis. EMQ managed Operation Yasi Assist, a multi-service activity by the

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as a contribution to the response to Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi. The EMQ together with Surf Life Saving Queensland established rescue coordination centres in Brisbane to provide emergency assistance to residents who were affected by the

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* {{Government of Queensland Emergency services in Queensland Defunct government agencies of Queensland

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