17 November 2025

Fire, flood, cyclone or storm - Community connection gets it done

Be it fire, flood, cyclone or storm – Queensland is officially the most disaster-prone state in Australia, having experienced more than 100 officially-declared disasters in the past decade. Responding to these disasters occurs by central

02 August 2024

QAS Paramedics compete for USAR selection

Within two hours of a call for duty, a select team of Queensland Ambulance Service specialists must be ready to deploy to a disaster zone anywhere in the world.

02 July 2024

QAS paramedic joins PNG landslide response

In the early hours of Friday 24 May a huge landslide flattened a village in Mulitaka, in Papua New Guinea’s highlands, killing hundreds while they slept and leaving many survivors homeless.