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Rescue5271 - MFS pumps are not allowed to respond to jobs with three people on board, if a firey is sick or unable to work then they will recall another person and take that truck offline until they have a full compliment. A couple of fireys are rostered on each shift to fill in the gaps and ensure they have a full compliment.

If there are trucks getting around with three on board I think the Union would hit the roof, maybe you saw one of the training trucks getting around at the moment with the new recruits.

Depends on the appliance... there are 4 per crew on pumps and the heavy rescue... 2 on HAZMAT/BA and aerial, not sure but i think that the skyjets are 4 per crew.... 2 per ROSA?

Medevac, the ROSA normally responds with one, if it's the CBR truck from HQ it normally goes with just the on-call CBR officer. The ROSA at Largs North is driven by the Marine Officer. Skyjets are crewed with four.

Getting back on topic - it seems that the situation hasn't really improved much.

I have seen some shitty response times from SAAS lately with this one occuring this afternoon.


17:57:08 24-06-06 FLEX-A    ALPHA  1600 OH81 Cat2 Cnr Kenihans Rd, Happy Valley 177 E1 POLICE REQUIRED
                                           
17:57:10 24-06-06 FLEX-A    ALPHA  1600 OH81 Cat2 Cnr Kenihans Rd, Happy Valley 177 E1 POLICE REQUIRED

17:57:44 24-06-06 FLEX-A    ALPHA  1600 OH81 Cat2 Cnr Kenihans Rd, Happy Valley 177 E1 POLICE REQUIRED
                                         
17:57:55 24-06-06 FLEX-A    ALPHA  1600 M171 Cat2 Cnr Kenihans Rd, Happy Valley 177 E1 POLICE REQUIRED
                                         
17:59:29 24-06-06 FLEX-A    ALPHA  1600 N75 Cat2 Cnr Kenihans Rd, Happy Valley 177 E1 POLICE REQUIRED

18:06:21 24-06-06 FLEX-A    ALPHA  1600 MFS: RESPOND Vehicle Accident 24/06/06 18:04,CHANDLERS HILL RD,HAPPY VALLEY, MAP 165 H 8 ,,CNR KENIHANS RD SPILL ONLY,421 8032*CFSRES:
                                       
Ambos despatched this job as having persons trapped and responded three of their own cars but for some reason waited until the first Ambo arrived and specifically requested 'Firies' before responding any fire service (as it turns out there was no one trapped).

This is just plain sloppy work by them 

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Completely off topic, but in the CFS do we say "strike out a third alarm" or "upgrade to a third alarm"?  people seem to say 'strike out' a lot here, but I've never heard it over the radio...

Generally CFS use "Upgrade to a second alarm". MFS and the crankier CFS brigades like to use "Transmit second alarm" and the real cranks use "Transmit the box".

"Strike out a third alarm" would be from the FDNY - I challenge someone to use that one on the GRN.

I believe it is being followed up. Hopefully the Workplace services investigation will also reveal the deficiency.

Well it might be working well in some areas but out here things aren't so smooth. It seems that when a road roller fell over the other day on top of a person the first and only response was of the SES who were about 20 km's away.

This might not seem strange until you realise that there was one CFS rescue brigade about 2 mins away, another about 5 minutes away and a third about 10 minutes away. None of those resourcs were responded until some 20 minutes after the initial SES response, unfortunately by the time we arrived the patient was DOA - and no SES on scene yet.

One really has to ask the question why the closest rescue (resource isn't being responded to rescue incidents ? Have the SES changed the MFS database and removed CFS from some rescue calls or was this simply a one of stuff up. 

Does anyone know if anyone sells the 'Caution Undeployed Airbag' tape that MFS carry. I don't think it's standard issue but it probably should be.