Just had a look through the chief officer's standing orders & standard operating procedures - Picked out a few key points re DGO/GO responses and notifications... looks like some GO's/DGO's can’t read.....
Initial Resource Response Schedule SOP 2.1
GO's/DGO's to attend;
2nd alarm Rural incidents
2nd alarm RCR
1st alarm HAZMAT
3rd alarm Vehicle Fires
3rd alarm Structure Fires or as requested
Special Service incident's as required
Emergency Response Driving COSO 8
Command Vehicles and Staff Vehicles shall not respond priority one to incidents below 2nd Alarm unless requested by the Incident Controller.
Officer Notification -COSO 15
(The GO/DGO do not have to attend the incident to do this)
Group Duty Officers shall ensure the Regional Coordinator (RCord) is advised as soon as practical for:
• All second alarm calls or greater
• Where a Groups resources, equivalent to second alarm are committed to an incident(s)
• All CBR / Hazardous Materials incidents
• All rural incidents/responses on fire ban days of predicted FDI 50 and above
• All air support response requests
• Regional communications and logistics support requests
• An aircraft alert or crash
• Any incident or emergency incident which is believed to have destroyed assets greater than $25,000 in value
• Any fire which has burnt more than 30 hectares in area
• Any injuries or death of firefighters in accordance with Occupational, Health and Safety Manual, Accident reporting
• Incidents involving multiple injuries/persons trapped eg bus, train, multiple vehicle incidents
• Any fire which has resulted in a fatality
• Any incident where SA Police conducts fire cause investigation
• Any structure fire incident where the Brigade or Group require fire cause investigation to be undertaken
• Any incident which requires Stress Prevention and Management debriefing
• Any other incident of an unusual nature (eg flooding, entrapment, search, assistance to other agencies, building collapse, bomb threat)
• Where CFS is assisting MFS outside of the normal dual response areas (as defined by the Mutual Aid Plan)
• Resources being deployed to another Region/State
• Where change of quarters to MFS stations has been requested