i am sick of brigades being paged to a fixed alarm that i look after but they do not role an appliances but instead call up and ask the staff if its a real call...since when is a fixed alarm not a real job? time brigades looked at the SOPS and followed them,sooner or later it will be a working job and it will be there head/body in court not the CFS.......
I know of a couple of brigades around here that actually the captain responds straight to the alarm and the rest go to the truck. I guess in a way its a good thing but in others maybe not.
But all fixed alarms in the Gambier CFS area (Except Tarpeena) are dual responsed with MFS anyway so there is always an appliance on its way.