Are you inspired about this project? If you are, we want you on the team. Sign up to Join the Extreme Team and we will come back to you via text and eNews messages throughout the year, with updates about extreme events as they happen, calls to action, and appeals for your support along the way.

Our objective is huge – this campaign aims to inspire 20,000 people under the age of 35 to become active volunteers working with Australia’s eighteen emergency community groups. You can also support your family, neighbuorhood, school, and communities hit by severe weather by following the simple steps we are encouraging our Extreme Team to take.

 

Emergency volunteering isn’t just about the glamour “out there” efforts. Its about thousands of people who understand the risks, procedures, and systems in place and the critical importance of all aspects of emergency management in the field and in the backroom offices that are the engine rooms of communication and coordination.

Australia needs thousands of geeks, admin support people and comms experts for the system to work well. We also need people who care about suffering and who are great with other people – like Ben our Extreme Weather Hero from the Red Cross who has helped countless Sydneysiders cope with very tough times. If you’re more in this mode as opposed to being on the frontline with the heavy gear – then we need you!!!

 

There is no tighter team than the one which trains together and relies on all members to deliver when lives are at stake. We guarantee that if you make the commitment to get skilled and get on board, you will make friends that become your family, and you will keep them through thick and thin. Plus you will meet all kinds of people.

Just ask Jake, our twenty year old Canberra Rural Fire Service volunteer Extreme Weather Hero and he will tell you that his mates include business and government leaders that are a lot older than him, but are happy to follow his orders in a crunch.

 

They say that your generation cares about climate change. We think they’re right. Your climate will impact on your future more than just about anything else. So get on board. Join the Extreme Team, start the first step to logging your readiness, and share this with all of your friends and neighbours.

Help us to future-proof Australia’s emergency management system at a time when it urgently needs support, and help to inspire thousands of Aussies hit by severe weather to rebuild green in the wake of extreme weather events.