This is not the place to criticise there decisions or actions. especially based on a couple of photos.
That's half the problem with CFS/SES dont critise the volunteer or tell them they have stuffed up, you might hurt their feelings, please!
How about we look for words like learnings for other brigades, opportunities for improvement and stop think identify and control when we are doing anything!
As for driving down a track in the middle of winter why would you have firefighters on the back when you have perfectly good seats and better seatbelts in side the vehicle where it provides a better level of protection, also do those new 34 rural appliance have seatbelts on the rear or is it purely a work deck?!