This is speaking from experiance
Experience wise in this regard I think I trump you several hundred times over. That aside you have the belief that MFS "log" things. They just undertake call receipt and dispatch. They don't log and they don't do resource tracking. They take the call page it out and if no one acknowledges receipt they page the next nearest brigade. All they care about is the page acknowledgement so they can tick it off the running sheet. The only "logging" thats going on is that its claimed that the state/regional talkgroups get recorded, but good luck getting the recording or anyone to listen back to the recording for you. I have however heard recordings (MP3) of the Sturt Group talkgroup. If I'm not mistaken, they record both their talkgroups at the base continuously.
"oh sorry, didn't write anything down"
Well it probably wasn't that important then. I think you will also find that as soon as any station/base is under pressure logging is amongst the first casualty.
I am trying to get though to people, why do we have such an abortion of a system, we are all over the place, people doing whatever they like
You mean like you doing comms on 111 as your threatening to do when you shouldn't be?
I'm not saying the system is perfect, I'm just saying that given the situation in which groups have been placed, having a duty officer is amongst the best solutions going.
Righto , when was the last time you went to comms and found out how it actually happens, obviously about 15 years ago, all radio transmissions are logged in CRIIMSON, I have asked for a log only in the last week and they faxed it to me, had all the times and sitreps, sooo, that says to me that they are indeed logging everything, but as always, I am happy to be proven wrong. We took a tour of the commcen to see how it really happens, and whilst they are still learning, they do in fact get quite involved in the CFS jobs. I can see why they get frustrated though, boy oh boy do we woffle !! "nuff nuff 24 out on 30 k run" cutting over the top of incident traffic, good one! So they are strongly pushing for the smaller amount of TG's. Its not anyone's fault out there, you don't know someone is talking, but you will with the new arrangement.
As for your point "It probably wasn't that important" in regards to logging, you deserve a slap around the head !!!! I bet the first 10 mins of Ash Wednesday wasn't that important, or Wangary, or the MVA where 3 people died, until the coroners inquest, you can't have been involved in many decent incidents if you sprout forth that woffle, my god man, what are you thinking !! Logging radio transmissions is vital, you or anyone can't tell me otherwise.
When did I threaten to go to 111, I am still doing it the way it was done with SOCC, unlike Sturt and Kyeema groups who go against everything CFS ever asks of them, so don't tell me I am going against the trend, I am actually doing it the way CFS has asked.
I really wish people would stop thinking they know , and actually find out, I bother to go and find out, I bother to read memo's from CFS. I still have my opnions on what would be a better option, but we will still be back in the dark ages after I post this, and the way the state's group officers carry on, will most likely be for some time to come.
We still can't seem to get over this ownership and power trip, it isn't the Sturt Fire Service, Kyeema Fire Service, Heysen Fire Service, Mt Gambier Fire Service, Lucundale Fire Service etc, IT'S the Country Fire Service, much the same way its the Metropolitan Fire Service. Only when people realise this, might we see some change, and that's obviously going to take another generation. Thankfully some of these old group officers are coming to the end of their time............