These are the words of a State Emergency Service volunteer from Ballarat, one of a number of volunteers who travelled up to New South Wales to assist communities amid the state's devastating floods.

SES Deputy Controller of Training and local Ballarat volunteer, Cameron Maher, did not hesitate to travel up to NSW earlier this week to lend a helping hand.

"I really felt for the local communities in NSW, seeing all of the devastation on the news. I have emergency management skills and could provide assistance," he told The Courier. Tasked as Sector Commander at Port Macquarie, he has been assisting local crews with the incident response.

The area has been one of the hardest-hit, with NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian describing the situation on the Mid-North coast as a "one-in-100-year event".

Initially tasked to look after the whole response area for SES Port Macquarie, Commander Maher, who has been an SES volunteer for eight years, said that as the urgency of the jobs was reducing he was trying to step back to allow the local units to take back over. However, he is still tasked in a critical role - flood boat rescue and evacuations as well as air supplies.

SES volunteers have responded to almost 1000 requests for assistance from the community in the last week.

"Port Macquarie experienced intense rainfall over a very short period of time on Friday night," Commander Maher told The Courier. "There was extensive flooding through Port Macquarie, as well as further west into the mountain ranges. A lot of the communities out to the west have been isolated.

"Initially they were isolated due to flood water and we were able to get rescue boats up the flooded rivers close to those communities."