Colac is located approximately 174 km west of Melbourne with a population of 12,000. The Colac Station attends approximately 1100 cases per year, with 30% deemed life threatening emergencies, 40% urgent, and the remaining 30% of cases classified as non urgent transports.  The Station employs 13 full-time staff, houses 4 vehicles (Mercedes Sprinter, Toyota Troop Carrier, Ford F-350 and a Holden Sedan) with one of these vehicle being manned 24 hours per day with a crew of two full time ALS staff. 

PLEASE NOTE

Due to an increase in full time staff from 5 to 13, the termination of the Ambulance Community Officer system, and a change in the Branch roster providing only one of it's four vehicles being staffed, MICA coverage is no longer available in most cases, and emergency coverage problems have developed with emergency responses coming from Camperdown (42km away) or Geelong (75 km away) when the only Colac ambulance is unavailable (often due to interhospital transfer work), with Colac now failing to meet the State Emergency Response Standard for emergency calls.  When calling for an ambulance, it is essential that callers ask if an Ambulance is currently available in Colac.

Colac Station is just one of 250 stations that form the state funded Ambulance Victoria (AV).  Covering Victoria's 5.3 million rural population,  AV  employs just over 3080 full-time on-road Paramedics (including 482 MICA-Paramedics).  A fleet of around 600 emergency response vehicles (including 520 stretcher vehicles) are also utilised responding to approximately 450,000 emergency cases and 340,000 non emergency cases per year.

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