Colac is located approximately 174 km west of Melbourne with a populaltion of 12,000. The Colac Station is one of the State's busier rural call branches attending in excess of 1100 cases per year, with 40% deemed life threatening emergencies, 50% urgent, and the remaining 10% of cases classified as non urgent transports.  The Station employs five staff - five full-time Officers and one Casual Officer, operating 3 vehicles (2 Mercedes 316 Sprinters, and 1 Sedan Response Unit) with one vehicle being manned 24 hours per day with a crew of two full time staff  (usually one MICA Paramedic and one ALS  Paramedic).   

Colac Station is just one of over 130 stations that form the state funded Rural Ambulance Victoria (RAV).  Covering 215,000 square km and Victoria's 1.4 million rural population,  RAV employs just over 800 full-time Paramedics (approx 190 MICA Paramedics,  370 ALS Paramedics,  90 Ambulance Paramedics and 98 student Paramedics).  A fleet of around 425 emergency response vehicles (including 308 stretcher vehicles) are also utilised responding to approximately 165,000 cases per year (including 118,000 emergencies).

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