All rubbish aside the buck stops at the Captain, Lieutenants or the most senior brigade member at the time the pager drops and should be managed better by Group Officers and give them more power to do so...
1. The issues are brigades not defaulting when they should.
2. Responding with inadequate crews on appliances for the given incident.
3. Putting stops on brigades from other neighbouring stations or groups before they have fully assessed the incident.
4. Poorly written Group response plans that rely to heavily on that groups resources when sometimes other group resources are closer and more practical and should be included.
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I'm with you on this Alex, not to mention the amount of groups that send command cars to alarm calls, tree fires etc, so an appliance doesn't have to respond
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Group cars to alarm calls so appliances don't have to move I've heard of rumours like that, does nothing for others services and the public accepting us as professional.