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Lake Cargelligo is home to 1500 people but only has three SES volunteers. The unit commander warns this is putting lives at risk in regional New South ...

So it is a big concern." According to the SES, there are seven volunteers in the Lake Cargelligo unit, which differs to the Unit Commander's figure of three. "It makes things very difficult. "There is just not the work in this part of the world for people who have got the get up and go to become a qualified member," Mr Coff said. More than 1,000 new volunteers have signed up for the SES across NSW, but most are in Sydney or on the North Coast. The town has a population of 1,479 but the local SES commander Ray Coff said there were only three SES volunteers in the community.