Ten of the region’s emergency services will connect with the community at the end of this month in an annual event celebrating its second year.
Organised by Whitsunday Police, the Emergency Services Field Day is a free entry, annual event inviting locals to have a chat with the personnel that protect them.
From 8am until midday on Saturday July 30, over seven divisions of the Queensland Police will attend, including Queensland Police Highway Patrol, Dog Squad, the local PCYC, General Duties Officers, Crime Prevention Unit, Recruiting, and Water Police.
Other emergency services meeting with the community on the day will be the likes of Queensland Ambulance Service, Queensland Fire and Rescue, Rural Fire Service, Australian Defence Force, Marine Safety Queensland, Volunteer Marine Rescue, Claytons Towing, Whitsunday Council Disaster Management, SES and Central Queensland Rescue.
Whitsunday Police Station Constable Jessica Leech said the event presents an opportunity for the community to see what emergency services have to offer them.
It’s a great place for us to interact with the community, as well as for them to see and learn what we do for them,” Constable Leach said.
“And for anyone wanting a career in any of those areas they can talk to firies, ambos, police and get to know what the jobs are about.
“It offers a multitude of opportunities and it also, for little kids, lets them get a photo with the firies!”
Ms Leech, who is organising the event, said the field day will host a program of events for its morning runtime along with its regular group of food stalls.
“There’ll be a series of demonstrations, with the really exciting ones like the QPS Pipes and Drums, a marching band with bagpipes and percussion instruments - they’re fantastic,” she said.
“We’ll have walk on viewings of the Volunteer Marine Rescue Boat down at the Marina, and a demolition car from Claytons Towing which will be cut open with the jaws of life.”
Constable Leach said the program, which is new this year, came into place because people were eager to see what those services were really like.
“You don’t really get to those sorts of things ever,” she said.
“We’re very excited to show the community what we’re all about.”
WHAT: Emergency Services Field Day
WHERE: Coral Sea Marina Lawns
WHEN: July 30
The Defence Force will feature at this year’s “bigger and better” Emergency Services Field Day
This year there will be live demonstrations by services like Claytons Towing, who will be cutting a car open
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