The NSW USAR team can deploy many capabilities within a 6-hour time frame : Various size NSW USAR capabilities have been deployed to disasters around the world . These range from full Classified Heavy USAR teams to small incident management groups : 1977 Granville Train Disaster 1989 Newcastle earthquake 1997 Thredbo landslide Multiple heavy USAR teams 1999 Taiwan earthquake Incident Management 1999 Turkey earthquake Incident Management 2000 Sydney Olympics 2004 Boxing Day tsunami ( Indian Ocean ) 2006 Indonesia earthquake Logistics support for medical team 2009 Samoa tsunami Logistics support for medical team 2011 Christchurch earthquake Heavy USAR team and component of second Australian Heavy USAR team 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami Heavy USAR team 2015 Tropical Cyclone Pam , Vanuatu Medium Disaster Assistance Team Fire & Rescue NSW - incident management , logistics , rescue and hazmat Australian Department of Foreign Affairs - liaison officers Emergency Management Australia - liaison officers NSW Police Force - security liaison NSW State Emergency Service - canine search teams NSW Public Works - structural engineers NSW Health - doctors and medical cache NSW Ambulance - paramedics
Indonesia earthquake
2006 Yogyakarta earthquake
Urban Search and Rescue New South Wales AUS-2