I am wondering why after learning how CAD will run radio wise why we will need to bother opening the station at all, seems a waste of time and resources. They should have just done what CFA did and take all station radios out except for group bases.
OK, so if you take station radios out...for the larger incidents who will do logistics, incident control, planning, crew welfare, paper-war, sitreps to Group Region State, AIIMS, etc, etc....I doubt if you informed Adelaide Fire of a Sitrep they would inform Group immediately. They will record info that might flow to CRIMMSON for review later...but will that help you on the incident ground ?
Personal opinion, volunteers are going to need to review processes so they know when to open the Base for incident control. Then the Base can let Adelaide Fire know of sitreps and leave you to control the incident.
Alarms and small single incident responses, yes let Adelaide Fire do the recording.
Larger incidents you might need help in Incident management. But they wont have local knowledge that is needed in larger incident management.
Not sure if that Incident Management should come from a group base or each brigade..that will be up to the volunteers.
It will be interesting during the first storm or multi-incident event occurs how this will work when services will still be operating two different systems.
*** my personal opinion only ***
