MFS: *CFSRES INC012 05/03/08 08:09,RESPOND Private Alarm,LOT 666 RIVERBANKS RD,HILLIER MAP 31 L 4 TG102,PRIVATE DWELLING,DALK19 CFS Dalkeith Response
MFS: *CFSRES INC012 05/03/08 08:21,RESPOND Private Alarm,LOT 666 RIVERBANKS RD,HILLIER MAP 31 L 4 TG102,WITH DALKEITH,GWLR00 CFS Gawler River Response
DALK: *CFSRES: STATION MANNED FOR FIRECALL 05-03-08 08:21 CFS Dalkeith Response
DALK: *CFSRES: MORE CREW REQUIRED FOR THIS INCIDENT 05-03-08 08:24 CFS Dalkeith Response
MFS: *CFSRES INC012 05/03/08 08:36,RESPOND Private Alarm,LOT 666 RIVERBANKS RD,HILLIER MAP 31 L 4 TG102,,GAW359 CONC00 MFS Gawler 359
MFS: *CFSRES INC012 05/03/08 08:36,RESPOND Private Alarm,LOT 666 RIVERBANKS RD,HILLIER MAP 31 L 4 TG102,,GAW359 CONC00 CFS Barossa Group Officers
MFS: *CFSRES INC012 05/03/08 08:45,RESPOND Private Alarm,LOT 666 RIVERBANKS RD,HILLIER MAP 31 L 4 TG102,WITH MFS,ROSE00 CFS Roseworthy Response
MFS: *CFSRES:concordia RESPOND stop, ( for private alarm 05/03/2008 8:48:01 AM CFS Barossa Group Officers Response
MFS: STOP FOR CALL CFS Roseworthy Response (08:51)
Now I did not hear the radio traffic associated with this call so I am only guessing that this was not a going structure fire - if it was and all the other brigades were turned out as a result of an upgrade then please dismiss my further message.
If however this was a standard Private Alarm and the other resources were responded as a result of brigades not being able to get a crew then I will begin my own hypothesis on the incident.
First of all why are Dalkeith being responded to Private Alarm by themsleves, this is a two appliance response which for nearly all EMA brigades would indicate a two brigade response (rural brigades will only ever be paged singularly because BOMS is not setup with their data). EMA brigade zones should be setup with two brigades for any structure fire type incident.
If someone in Dalkeith was switched on enough to realise this should be a dual response call why does it then take 12 minutes to respond another brigade, or if turning out Gawler River was a result of no crew at Dalkeith then again I ask why does it take 12 minutes to default. Obviously someone must have acknowledged the page with MFS or they would have defaulted them after 4 minutes, so therefore whoever does the acknowledging then takes on the role of ensuring a suitable response occurs, in any case after 4 minutes if you have not heard any appliance respond you should be thinking about defaulting.
After 15 minutes Dalkeith still don't have a crew - no problems we all have those days sometimes, but then MFS from Gawler and Concordia CFS are responded 27 minutes after the initial response. Surely if you push the more crew button after 15 minutes you should be contacting Adelaide Fire immediately to inform them that we cannot respond you had better turnout someone else in our place.
Roseworthy were responded 36 minutes after the inital call, I am assuming this is because no other CFS brigade had actually managed to crew a truck and the MFS from Gawler were wondering why they were deep in CFS area without them there.
So about 30 minutes after the initial call someone might have actually arrived, god help us if this was a going job.
I have my 'armchair expert' hat firmly attached to my head so I would love for someone involved in this call to fill us in on what actually happened, hopefully it is nothing like I have explained otherwise the whole thing is just an absolute joke.
