Victoria State Emergency Service Victoria State Emergency Service (VICSES) is a volunteer-based organisation, providing emergency assistance to minimise the impact of emergencies and strengthen the community’s capacity to plan, respond and recover, when emergencies occur. We are the control agency for flood, storm, earthquake, tsunami and landslide. We also provide the largest road crash rescue network in Victoria. Operating since 1950, VICSES covers all of Victoria, via 154 units across two regions, in addition to the Victorian Head Office located at Southbank, Melbourne and 15 other permanently staffed offices across the state (view map of our locations).
