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ADF assistance to Queensland floods

29 January 2013

Commanding Officer of RAAF Base Richmond's No. 3 Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron (3AMES), Wing Commander Kathleen Pyne chats with a patient being evacuated from Bundaberg.

Flight Sergeant Vicki Lousick and Corporal Amy-Jade Best from RAAF Base Richmond's No. 3 Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron (3AMES) prepare a patient for transport to a waiting C-130J Hercules.

A patient is transferred from an ambulance onto a No. 37 Squadron (37SQN) C-130J Hercules during an Aero- Medical Evacuation conducted by RAAF Base Richmond's No. 3 Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron (3AMES).

Warrant Officer Roland Wilson and Flying Officer Emma-Jane Wilson from RAAF Base Richmond's No. 3 Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron (3AMES) go over the charts of patients waiting to be evacuated from Bundaberg.

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The Australian Defence Force is supporting an Emergency Management Queensland request for assistance to the widening flood situation in Queensland.

Rising floodwaters in Queensland have forced local health services in the city of Bundaberg to aeromedically evacuate 90 patients from a local hospital.

To assist this, Air Force has dispatched a pair of C-130J Hercules, carrying aeromedical evacuation personnel from RAAF Bases Richmond and Williamtown, to transport patients to Brisbane.

The ADF has stood up a Joint Task Force 637 under the command of Brigadier Greg Bilton, Commander of 7 Brigade based at Gallipoli Barracks, Enoggera in south-east Queensland.

Four Australian Army Black Hawks aircraft and crews from Townsville and Air Force transport aircraft are supporting flood relief and emergency recovery efforts in central Queensland, in the vicinity of Bundaberg and Maryborough to assist civilian authorities with emergency evacuation of residents.

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