Being rung at 11 at night to be told to organise crews to task at 4 in the morning.(Boy, do I make friends ha ha)
To be told that we must sit and wait ( no smoke in sight)
To get up at 4 in the morning and Travel for 4 hrs to find out that there was no Time for breakfast when you got to the staging area because you are told to rush to a certain sector to then just sit and wait for 6 hrs and do nothing.
And when you do go and work extremely hard for half the day to find that there has been no food organised or to find that when food arrives it is sandwiches put in a foam box to find that the contents of the sandwiches have bled thru the bread. What about using an esky with some cool blocks in it.
To find that you must leave your appliance park on roadways over night to find equipment missing or tampered with the next day after you sleep.
To find that half the task force must sleep in one town and the other half must travel another 45km's to sleep.(What happens if you have to task somewhere quickly during the night.)
I believe that a task force should all be at least in the same town or area when sleeping etc
To find that when they do eventually supply food on the fire ground, that nobody remembers to bring out ice for cooling drinks.
I believe that each task force should be supplied with a local farmer or someone who has good knowledge of local terrain, fire tracks, roads etc ( At least for the first day of each task force entering the district)