Cooma paramedics Mick Couvee and Jon Chivers plus station officer Jeff Aiton have each received a Commendation of Service from the NSW Ambulance Service for their courageous efforts to rescue a young woman during a snowstorm in June last year.

Last week NSW Ambulance's southern divisional manager Denis Beavan and assistant divisional manager Brian White presented the men with medals of commendation during a ceremony at Batemans Bay Soldiers Club.

The award is presented to paramedics who performed their duties under hazardous circumstances and who collectively display courage of a high order beyond expectations whilst consciously placing themselves at substantial risk of injury.

On the afternoon of the June 27 last year the ambulance officers received the call to help a 24-year-old woman in severe respiratory distress.

Her Snowy Mountains property had lost power and was in the grip of blizzard like weather conditions.

The Cooma paramedics were faced with extreme weather conditions of darkness, low temperatures, high winds, heavy snowfall which formed whiteout conditions. The paramedics spent over eleven hours caring for the woman.

Their dedication to the welfare, treatment and recovery of their patient saw them walking through waist deep snow, clearing trees from roadways, travelling by skidoo and driving their 4WD ambulance in blizzard conditions whilst exposed to the extremes of the weather.

The three paramedics selflessly put the health and safety of their patient before themselves and they are to be commended on their bravery, endurance and commitment.