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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: May 21, 2013, 10:09:04 AM »
Hmmm, seems a bit random, i would be very unhappy at that time of night.
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10-05-13 15:17:44 MFS: *CFSRES INC0090 10/05/13 15:03 RESPOND STRUCTURE DOMESTIC, ALARM LEVEL: 1, 1421 MAIN NORTH RD PARA HILLS WEST,MAP:ADL 83 F 1,TG 182, ==SMOKE FILLED HOUSE UNKNOWN SOURCE ==RESPOND PRI TWO - CONTACT SAL321 :SAL329 : - MFS Salisbury SAL329
Found it interesting to responde two appliances priority 2 to this job.
15:03:29 10-05-13 MFS: *CFSRES INC0090 10/05/13 15:03 RESPOND STRUCTURE DOMESTIC, ALARM LEVEL: 1, 1421 MAIN NORTH RD PARA HILLS WEST,MAP:ADL 83 F 1,TG 182, ==SMOKE FILLED HOUSE UNKNOWN SOURCE :OAK302 SAL321 : MFS Salisbury SAL321, MFS Salisbury Station, MFS Oakden OAK303
Has anyone bothered to find out what the actual breakdown of costs are ? There might be a reason, Seaford was no where near as expensive, neither was Glen Osmond, maybe that was a strange figure plucked out to make it sound like they were pouring money into it. Even a CFS shed these days is insanely expensive for what you get, a shed.
QuoteFire8029, not sure your sums are that valid.....theres a whole bunch of other costs to remove from the budget before you simplistically divide by 46 stations. Costs like Angle Park, Training (sep from APTC), Marine, Logistics and Infrastructure, Comms, Engineering, HQ, utilities etc etc. However Darius is right, they are significantly better funded per capita than CFS. And yet, funding isnt a CFSVA priority apparantlyThe new stations are being built to house more than 4 people incase of expansion in the future years. The Salisbury one will house 2 trucks with the capability of 4 in the future. The gym facilities are there because firefighters need to be fit for their job and it is a requirement that they use the gyms. How many big fat overweight MFS firefighters do you see compared to other uniformed agencies? Not too many. With stations manned 24hrs a day 7 days a week 365 days a year there is going to be added costs. Training areas, decontamination areas, fully serviceable kitchens etc.
But i do agree the new stations are quite extravagant