Happens at Yankalilla and Oakbank. They are combined SES/CFS stations.
Spoke to Yankalilla recently & they nominate SES training some nights and then CFS training other nights.
Depends on the local politics.
The SES members have there own lil training task to do every once in a while at oakbank...ive just joined the SES team there, doin my basic rescue sumtime soon....
lobethal CFS are also SES too aren't they?
I think a MFS station at barker would work with one truck with a 24/7 crew. as CFS_firey said, there response area is greatly larger than ours. So they would probably do the whole freeway to the points where they would meet in the middle with glen osmond (probably somewhere near the bridgewater exit) at one end and muzza retained MFS at the other end (somewhere near callington exit). and that way they would probably co respond to hahndorf, littlehampton, nairne, echunga and quite a way out to strath.
however i think the key is for these CFS brigades that are getting red trucks put near them is to embrace the new arrivals, not shun them or hate them. I think you'd probably find that if you scratched their back, they'd scratch yours. Interagency comradery can be crucial. Case in point: strathalbyn. At road crashes their CFS will respond strath SES to almost every road crash they attend almost immediately, and vice versa. They train together often and work together as one big team at RCRs as well as other jobs. If we sit there and act stand offish to MFS brigades, or get the dirts and not bother to respond etc, it only hurts your brigade.
In reference to the call for paid CFS crews and drawing compariosns to the CFA in that regard, in most cases are 2 different things. In the CFA, those brigades that have paid crews are normally bigger cities away from the CBD, obviously. If you were to put a paid day crew in action at sturt CFS group, it doesn't make much sense. Sturt, particularly blackwood, belair and eden hills, make a crew pretty comfortably 99% of the time. putting paid crews in so you can "guarantee" an emergency service means you may as well put a SAMFS station up there. Besides, if things really go pear shaped at a job/jobs in sturt or mawson, the red trucks aren't really that far away anyway...
and i'm spent.
