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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: October 21, 2011, 03:52:45 PM »
Did any of you fill out and return the "When is the emergency over" questionnaire the VFBA sent out?
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So is it right to think that this "service" that is being provided to the community has each brigade/station/crew? doing its own thing?
Probably in relation to the trial of the new pager acknowledgment procedure, a few CFS, SES and retained MFS stations are trialing it starting on Monday (15th). Basically acknowledging the page with link paging, who will then page Adelaide Fire with the name of the brigade and the person that called. A message then pops up on their screen with the details.
Will mean that many more operators are able to take the calls than currently exists in Adelaide Fire, one of the problems on a big day (and sometimes not even a big day) is that you can't through to acknowledge.
Nothing to do with SACAD, its a trial in response to those brigades who have complained they can't get through on the phone...it certainly has its bugs....wouldn't rely on it at all.
As for brigades having pagers, and hence not needing sirens...it'd be great if the pagers worked consistently, but they don't - within my Group area there are numerous dead spots for pagers, and a siren is very helpful for actually advising members of call (since the pager often won't!)
I have cancelled my subscription, which isn't easy, the mag seems to just arrive!!