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Well it looks like this plan is going down the gurgler.
Why don't you apply Zippy
As per the COSO's CFS are not to use K Codes, cant see these codes being any different or likely to change anytime soon.
Any life threat calls received by SES SCC, the caller is requested to call 000. We do not take the call.
ha good one. But of more interest to me is all the problems with Adelaide Fire over the weekend. Once again we had phone calls to them ringing out, big delays answering the radio, refusal to respond brigades, hanging up on 000 callers and brigades / group officers etc. I know they're busy but why is AF management continually unable to staff the comcen appropriately? after all it's not like everyone didn't have enough warning. Once again if it wasn't for groups and brigades managing everything themselves, and papering over the cracks, it would have been far worse. Can't wait til summer when it gets serious.
Well, Adelaide Fire was in multiple incident procedure over the weekend.....
That means, 000 calls for establishing firecalls and GRN for short mobilisation messages & urgent precise upgrade messages only...i would think.
There were so many manual turnout messages by brigades that should have happened via 000.
I recall hearing emerg tones and a general broadcast on all CFS regional channels occuring twice, general gist being: "wait out wait out, pretty much only talk to us if urgent"....
CFS has to deal with its radio protocol as well, massively. A lot more over the air discipline will go a long way.
I saw the pager messages, heard the radio messages, re we are in multiple incident procedures....but as yet, haven't found a reference in SOP's etc, as to what that is meant to be.
Having said that, it was pretty clear that Adelaide fire was swamped, and hence I didn't bother trying to get jobs put through to Adelaide fire, for dispatch to my brigade......I just paged it myself...
Not ideal, but since the jobs were just trees on roads, a few minutes of delay getting a page out via linkq didn't really matter.
However, it shows how quickly the CRD system was swamped, and the apparent inability of the system to expand to deal with that. (And before anyone makes the commnet - I am NOT having a go at any of the staff...they were obviously getting flogged, but listening to them on the radio, they were doing well under pressure)
Brigade & Group control centres were effectively doing their own thing - with many of the calls attended by brigades coming direct from members, who had been contacted by neighbours / other residents who knew they were in the CFS, and contacted them direct for assistance.
Pip
Any life threat calls received by SES SCC, the caller is requested to call 000. We do not take the call.
ha good one. But of more interest to me is all the problems with Adelaide Fire over the weekend. Once again we had phone calls to them ringing out, big delays answering the radio, refusal to respond brigades, hanging up on 000 callers and brigades / group officers etc. I know they're busy but why is AF management continually unable to staff the comcen appropriately? after all it's not like everyone didn't have enough warning. Once again if it wasn't for groups and brigades managing everything themselves, and papering over the cracks, it would have been far worse. Can't wait til summer when it gets serious.
