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Queensland Flood Infomation - Telstra 000 Outage
The local Telstra exchanges impacted are Gladstone, Rockhampton, Mackay, Townsville, Cairns, Mareeba and Mt Isa.
Police, Fire and Ambulance have established a single temporary number for emergency/Triple Zero calls, which may allow contact to be made with emergency services from some impacted areas (see below).
If you need to contact Triple-Zero and can’t use an alternative carrier you should:
1. Dial Triple Zero (000);
2. If Triple Zero is unavailable dial the number closest to your locality (see below);
3. If you are unable to make contact through either Triple Zero or the alternative numbers you should attend your local Police, Fire or Ambulance station or hospital if safe to travel
Townsville: 4750 5581 or 4750 5583
Mount Isa: 4744 1111 or 4744 1808
Cairns: 4030 7000
Mareeba: 4030 3340
Mackay: 4968 3530
Gladstone: 4971 3222
Rockhampton: Triple Zero (000) – via alternative carrier only
Connected News
- 08.02.2013 Charity Auction
- Charity Auction on 16th February from 10 am-12 pm located at 4A/143 St Vincents Rd Virginia
- 01.02.2013 CONNECTED Disaster and Hardship Recovery
- Connected are hosting a MASSIVE Open Day SALE,raising much needed funds for the recent natural disasters in Australia and immediate neighbours. Fire, Flood, Cyclone - you name it - this year we've had it...
- 28.01.2013 Queensland Floods Update
- Telstra Outage Effecting 000 Calls
- 26.01.2013 Heart & Soul Men shed Forrestdale joins Connected
- Heart & Soul Men's shed from Perth joins Connected in recovery assistance for Bushfires/Floods/Cyclones/Community & Men's Health
- 11.01.2013 2nd Year Anniversary
- Connected bush fire appeal Volunteers needed urgently and donations to help out Tasmania and other country towns
- 28.11.2012 We have moved!
- Connected finds new home!
- 21.05.2012 Connected Inc. Helps Nadi Flood Victims
- Connected Inc. sent a container load of clothing, books and other essential items to assist the Nadi Flood Victims
- 23.03.2012 Second Bite gets Connected / Volunteers Get Rewarded!
- Today all volunteers at Connected got rewarded with fresh fruit pack from Second Bite for all the hard work that they are doing to help Queensland flood survivors.
- 06.03.2012 Truck of sorted and brand new donations is going to St. George
- Connected has sent 16 pallets of stock to the forgotten families in St George. Stock sent up includes non-perishable food, clothing, linen and toys. To help with distribution, our tireless volunteers spent most of last week making up over 60 individual household packs for families that include cleaning items, crockery and cutlery and other essential items.
- 24.02.2012 Suncorp Volunteer Day
- 13 Suncorp volunteers helped rescue 68 families in St George
- 14.02.2012 22 pallets of stock to Roma, including brand new cleaning products, clothing and shoes and bedding.
- This Valentines Day Connected has sent 24 pallets of stock to Roma, including brand new cleaning products, clothing and shoes and bedding. Gwen Braga, Connected's president is up in Roma this week working with many wonderful volunteers sorting out donations in the flood relief centre. Flyers are being delivered to houses in Roma to assess what is needed and every day, several trucks are taking donations to the flood relief centre in Mitchell.
- 05.11.2011 SAP Volunteer Day at Connected
- SAP Employees talking about their day helping Connected to help others.
- Pride medal of Australia Finalist
- Craig Michaels founder is Queensland Finalist in for the Pride Medal of Australia
Press about Connected
18.05.2012 Combined effort helps flood-hit kids (Fiji Sun)
The floods in Nadi area caused huge damage and hardship for a great many people but perhaps the saddest victims were the school children.
14.01.2012 Homegrown charity kept busy (Courier Mail)
Connected now has three truckloads of essential goods and furniture ready to deliver to Goodna, one of the worst flood-hit suburbs in the state.
04.01.2012 Relief centres's one-month deadline to shut down (Northside Chronicle)
A voluntary hardship relief centre which has helped 8000 flood victims could close in a month without new home and government help.
20.12.2011 Gifts from Shed full of talent (Courier Mail / Quest Brisbane West)
They are a far cry from Christmas elves but a group of westside blokes have been busy making toys to brighten Christmas Day for flood-affected families.
30.11.2011 New home base needed (Bay Star)
Connected provides emergency relief for people who find themselves in devastating circumstances but after 10 months in operation, the organisation is looking for a new base.
04.07.2011 Free doors for flood victim (Quest Newspapers)
Banyo flood charity Connected Relief is providing free doors to flood-impacted homeowners after it was revealed they were not covered in insurance policies.
16.06.2011 Flood victims become volunteers (Quest Newspapers)
After being given a hand by Banyo's Connected Flood Relief Corinda's Joe and Gwen Braga are giving one back.
10.06.2011 Queensland's Disaster Heroes recognised (612 ABC Brisbane)
Flood and cyclone ravaged communities have showed their true colours in the months since the summer of disasters, and Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has used this year's Queensland Week to showcase those 'heroes' who worked tirelessly throughout the disaster.07.06.2011 Americans come to help Banyos Connected Relief Centre (Quest Newspapers)
An American family has made a 25,400km mercy flight to help with Brisbane's flood relief.
13.05.2011 Building materials needed (Northside Chronical)
BANYO: Connected Flood Relief Banyo is seeking building materials to build a rest area, play area and toy department in its distribution warehouse for clients picking up items, volunteer co-ordinator Craig Michaels says.04.05.2011 Connected support flood and cyclone victims throughout Queensland (Brisbane Seniors Newspaper)
Connected established after the Brisbane and Sout East Queensland floods is in desperate need of assistance to continue its worthwhile activities in providing disaster relief to flood as well as Yasi cyclone victims throughout Queensland.04.05.2011 Connected Relief Centre (Helen Abrahams Newsletter)
Connected require quality donations of goods to assist flood and cyclone disaster victims throughout Queensland. Volunteers are needed to sort donations, prepare consignments for distribution, tradesmen to build storage shelving and electricians to electrically test donated whitegoods prior to allocation to flood and cyclone victims.
27.04.2011 UQBS students pitch in to help flood victims (UQ Business School Media Release)
Almost 150 UQ Business School students got a taste of what flood victims went through when they volunteered in Grantham and Banyo recently.15.04.2011 UQ Students to help in Grantham (The Chronicle)
A BUSLOAD of University of Queensland business school students will get a taste of what flood victims went through when they volunteer in Grantham this morning.12.04.2011 UQ students to help flood victims (The Chronical)
ALMOST 150 UQ Business School students will get a taste of what flood victims went through when they volunteer in Grantham this weekend.
01.04.2011 Craig connects the community (Northside Chronicle)
BANYO: Banyo’s Connected Relief hardship service needs more donations of goods, corporate sponsorship and volunteers to help flood victims, said volunteer co-ordinator Craig Michaels.
04.03.2011 Sympathy forces Craig back into business (Courier Mail)
IN the first of our My Story series of Queenslanders bouncing back, volunteer co-ordinator Craig Michaels tells how he helped others who had lost everything.
03.03.2011 Connected for a fresh start (Courier Mail)
IT'S all hands on deck at Banyo's disaster relief centre and Lee Price is among many volunteers devoting hours to helping flood victims start again.
