Heard a funny dummy spit this morning by South Coast SES to Adelaide Fire complaining why have Victor MFS been responded to "their" jobs as well and when they (SES) turn up there's nothing to be done. He said they have wasted an hour this morning doing this. The Adelaide Fire guy replied that that's the system and he should ring them and speak to a supervisor.
Frankly I'm surprised it seems to have taken someone in the SES this long to notice their time is being constantly wasted. The SES are responded with different job numbers to CFS/MFS but to the same job, different talkgroups, and each service isn't told the other has also been responded. Adelaide Fire, who should know who has been responded, don't pass on stop calls or sitreps from the first service to attend to any others.
I have sympathy for the SES volunteers being mucked around like this and think the SES management have a lot to answer for. I also think it's about time the SES management realised they are not an emergency service (there are so many examples why this is the case, eg. response pages in some cases just go to a single staff members pager and they chase up people via phone, sending someone out to recce things first before responding, units that respond 30mins, 1hr, 3hrs whatever later, and so on, all these mean it can't be an "emergency"), that doesn't mean the service they provide isn't valuable of course, just not an "emergency". Unfortunately there's too much vested interest, it needs the safecom chief to smack some sense into them.
Frankly I'm surprised it seems to have taken someone in the SES this long to notice their time is being constantly wasted. The SES are responded with different job numbers to CFS/MFS but to the same job, different talkgroups, and each service isn't told the other has also been responded. Adelaide Fire, who should know who has been responded, don't pass on stop calls or sitreps from the first service to attend to any others.
I have sympathy for the SES volunteers being mucked around like this and think the SES management have a lot to answer for. I also think it's about time the SES management realised they are not an emergency service (there are so many examples why this is the case, eg. response pages in some cases just go to a single staff members pager and they chase up people via phone, sending someone out to recce things first before responding, units that respond 30mins, 1hr, 3hrs whatever later, and so on, all these mean it can't be an "emergency"), that doesn't mean the service they provide isn't valuable of course, just not an "emergency". Unfortunately there's too much vested interest, it needs the safecom chief to smack some sense into them.