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More than likely they wont do anything considering interCAD is coming..

In the meantime, RCR grievance forms.

Helicopter response zone?

I have heard rumours, but have not seen any paperwork, procedures, etc...

It would be nice to see the sky crane actually do some work since we're wasting spending so much money on it... So all good I guess. Seems like it may mean we are over resourcing the initial response to some jobs though if rumours are anything to go by... (FDI over 30 = 2 fixed wings, the sky crane and air obs was the rumour I heard)

MFS: *CFSRES INC0056 22/11/12 11:43 RESPOND GRASS FIRE, ALARM LEVEL: 1, BROADVIEW RD WESTERN FLAT,MAP:C/38 54,TG 230, ==RE-KINDLE OF FIRE. MICK GRADY'S PROPERTY :AIRDESK BANG24 FRAN34 : - CFS Naracoorte Group Officers Response


CAD upgrade today, should make life easier.
Once current jobs that already have comments in them start to disappear this is all you will see for alarm levels, just the current one.

10-11-12 17:42:36   MSG ONLY- Tomorrow is a TOTAL FIRE BAN FDI is 88 Wind is up to 50kph Northerly. Bombers are on Auto response. Please make yourselves available for any calls. - MFS Port Lincoln Info


Has the bomber contract actually started?? Anyone in the know?

Seeing as the DO acknowledged A/F and they know that, wouldn't it be as easy to radio that DO and ask if they are out the door. It would seem that it depends which team is on up there to whether they use their radios to ask the question or just press a button. Yes we should all come up to A/F and acknowledge the call. But we can all use the radio and ask the question hey. You can't run the job buy sitting behind a desk making decision with out asking what's going on first.

All well and good as long as someone answers that radio call...

I think you could put that on the "myth" pile....

Quote from: Bagyassfirey on October 04, 2012, 07:35:45 PM

Quote from: Alex on October 04, 2012, 06:50:19 PM

Baggy, time for you to go back to school. If not to confirm the truck will respond what do you think the purpose of acknowledging is? And yes. That person is taking responsibility, somethin the CFS is very poor at recognizing.

I must be mis guided...I thought we were to acknowledge receipt of page with A Fire than book mobile when responding in appliance.. Is that incorrect?

I thought under SACAD it was just an acknowledgement that the page had been received and if an appliance didn't get mobile they would default anyway?  Maybe I'm misguided too.  (Although I think it's good practice for someone who's actually responding to acknowledge so they can relay further details if there are any).

Hey mate, ack within 6, mobile within another 10, so possibly 16 all up to get a truck on the road. IMO this is too long and a brigade should default before this point unless they are extremely remote. The default after that sixteen though still does not automatically happen as CFS wants ALERTS used to query status of resources first.

Quote from: Alex on October 04, 2012, 06:50:19 PM

Quote from: Bagyassfirey on October 04, 2012, 06:08:34 PM

Quote from: Alex on October 04, 2012, 05:39:15 PM

Quote from: Bagyassfirey on October 04, 2012, 12:51:39 PM

Quote from: Alex on October 03, 2012, 09:59:50 PM

03-10-12 20:54:18   Page acknowledged to Adelaide Fire by LT2. LT2 unavailable to attend incident. - CFS Forreston Info

Annnd 

No point acknowledging a response if your not attending the incident/station. The person acknowledging page is taking responsibility that the appliance will go mobile.

Errrr how does acknowledging a page with A fire deem you responsible for getting the appliance out of station?  Seems to me he was obviously performing his roles roles set out to him!

Storm in a tea cup! No biggy really! "Play on"

Baggy, time for you to go back to school. If not to confirm the truck will respond what do you think the purpose of acknowledging is? And yes. That person is taking responsibility, somethin the CFS is very poor at recognizing.

I must be mis guided...I thought we were to acknowledge receipt of page with A Fire than book mobile when responding in appliance.. Is that incorrect?

Adelaide Fire takes the call and has the responsibility to respond resources, once they ack the responsibility lies on them to get out the door. There is a second timer that starts when a resource acks, but this is another ten minutes, and let's be honest. 6 to ack, plus 10 to mobile is way too long and a brigade/unit should have defaulted themselves well before that point.

Quote from: Alex on October 03, 2012, 09:59:50 PM

03-10-12 20:54:18   Page acknowledged to Adelaide Fire by LT2. LT2 unavailable to attend incident. - CFS Forreston Info

Annnd 

No point acknowledging a response if your not attending the incident/station. The person acknowledging page is taking responsibility that the appliance will go mobile.

27-09-12 15:27:08   Pt Elliot covering Victor Harbor area from 12 noon till 6pm tomorrow in it's entirity. Captain is available - CFS Port Elliot Info


 

There'd be a change of quarters from Metro before this would even be considered... Unless I'm missing something.

Quote from: Alex on August 23, 2012, 04:51:10 PM

To be able to stack their jobs SES wanted multiple resources per unit in SACAD.  26 letters in the alphabet, so 27 unit resources (one without a letter).

So for WAD20 Z, would that mean there are 27 stacked jobs, or would that just be the 27th job that day?

No. Doesn't necessarily mean either as they don't generally go out in alphabetic order.

One is picked by the system, i was told some time back of a 'time-breaker' rule, which chose whichever appropriate resource had been available in that zone and in an available status the longest.

You may notice in CFS land at any CFS station with two or more appliances of the same type & attributes they will get differant appliances for the same type of job from time to time; ie a rubbish/waste event in Coromandel Valley may get their 24 one day and their 24P the next, as they are both HTs with the same attributes in the same zone when K5. It will pick whichever resource has been K5 the longest.


I hope this helps.

Not looking at any subsequent response pages, is this confusing to anyone else?

MFS: *CFSRES INC0037 23/08/12 13:31 RESPOND TREE DOWN P2 YUMALI RD YUMALI MAP:C/100 54,CALLER: ==COVERING PART OF ROAD, 5.5KM ON A BEND TOWARDS MENINGIE :MEN20 A SNOTIFY E : - SES Meningie

Not a local but I read it as 5.5km out of yumali towards meningie on the yumali road?