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.
Norma (given name) Norma (given name) Norma is a female name. A single instance of the name "Norma" is recorded 1203, where it perhaps derives from the Latin word "norma", meaning "precept". The name's general usage seems to be subsequent to the 1831 debut of Vincenzo Bellini's opera "Norma" whose librettist Felice Romani borrowed the name (and the plot) from the recent tragedy "Norma" by Alexandre Soumet. Soumet's choice of name for his title character may possibly have been influenced by the name of the Germanic mythological Norns. More recently "Norma" has been used as a female equivalent of the name "Norman", meaning