Victoria State Emergency Service of the largest in the world. VICSES also provides assistance to other emergency services such as Victoria Police, Ambulance Victoria, The Country Fire Authority (CFA) and to municipal councils in planning and auditing their emergency management plans. There are more than 5600 (43,000 nationwide) committed and dedicated volunteers around the state who provide these services 24 hours a day, seven days a week and every day of the year in Victoria. Victoria State Emergency Service Victoria State Emergency Service (VICSES) is a volunteer based organisation responding to natural disasters and working to ensure the safety of communities around Victoria, Australia.
Pomegranate was known in early English as "apple of Grenada"—a term which today survives only in heraldic blazons. This is a folk etymology, confusing the Latin "granatus" with the name of the Spanish city of Granada, which derives from Arabic. Garnet derives from Old French "grenat" by metathesis, from Medieval Latin "granatum" as used in a different meaning "of a dark red color". This derivation may have originated from "pomum granatum", describing the color of pomegranate pulp, or from "granum", referring to "red dye, cochineal". The French term for pomegranate, "grenade", has given its name to the military grenade. A shrub