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Time they looked at having a chopper based here in the SE for all medical emergency's and that it is staffed by a DOC and a SAAS paramedic would work well
QuoteCFS has Hazmat Officers on duty don't they?
They used too, even Fire Cause is done by MFS for CFS area.
Now its mostly just a TAC (Technical Advice Co-ord) you have to ring up.
Zippy, as far as im aware CFS still has on call HazMat/CBR officers, made up of regional officers/ commanders with a knowledge of hazmat. The TAC is higher level advice from people qualified as industrial chemists, who offer advice specific to the myriad of chemicals (who also advise the MFS when required, as per the 'blue book'). Im not sure what path you are trying to lead people on with your negative ill informed comments. Being from a hazmat brigade i would think you would know more about the structure of mow HazMat incidents are managed. I also cant recall a time when CFS have done structure fire cause in CFS area.
must say, i am surprised that there are signs out the front.
who is paying for the signs? the union or the firies them selves?
I'm not sure why non rescue teams are sent to these jobs, if was a simple pickup and carry SAAS wouldn't ask for help would they?
RCR is not primary but they have the tools as does Sturt
as USAR equipment
just a few mistakes in the paging but oh well
my question is what was riverton doing responding to a VA on our area the job was a motorbike v truck
QuoteAnd why people insist on paging for more crew? You have got what you are gonna get instead call for another brigade.
Chook
My question regarding this incident is should an appliance really be responding with only two crew to an alarm / going job. We would get absolutely spanked silly by Region and Group if we responded with only two on a primary responding truck, not to mention MFS would go ballistic if they saw us at a job with only two on board.
Almost as bad as a brigade who recently went to a brush fence fire and almost impacting a residence and 1 person and appliance responds
is enough CABA trained for a brigade, this is the minimum number however once you have 8 trained it is very difficult to train any more. I have also heard that RCR training is similar.. Not sure if MFS retained have similar restirctions on doing training courses??Can make things difficult as in a volunteer environment oyu never know who will turn up for a job, even if you train a member with great availabilty it doesnt mean they will always have good availability.. I gues it comes down to money in the end.. only a certain ammount of cash for training to go around.
aaah but surely 'civvys' as you call them... are the way to go.
that way they dont let personal experience or knowledge get in the way of enforcing procedures...
This system works well here in the southeast where the group base will open for all call outs no matter how small or big it is,
May be its time that CFS was allowed to have paid staff aswell as volunteers in the one station both doing the same job in some of the city urban area's.
i think you will find that 95% of CFS volunteers are happy doing it that way.
If your in the CFS your in a better situation than you think. SAMFS on the other hand are behind both NSW QLD and Vic, although things are changing on that front esp if you look at the USAR equipment and new CABA stuff. It's just a pitty they still need to use Oten for a lot of the Qualifications......
RTW
Negative not based at Elizabeth but the new station does not receive the MDT signals inside which is why Elizabeth crews are sent GRN pager messages for details of the call.
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