Hahahahaha, This is becoming like primary school here, lets all pick on the other services cause ours is superiour. CFS vs MFS vs SES vs SAAS. Calm down. 99% of time all services are responded (country) and in a timely manner. Metro, 50% of time, by time others are there, case cancelled as only a fender bender and all parties driven away.
Maybe those of you worried (about paging delay/or nil paging) need to report to your line manager and get them to follow through the appropriate channels, this forum won't fix it, and neither will whinging.
At the end of the day the SAAS volunteers do a fantastic job, and some stations struggle to recruit and retain, so it is the same people turning out all the time. Some of them work (and live) out of their town's limits (eg farmers) so response will be delayed, they are not sitting on station waiting for that pager to go off, and I would think the same would go for CFS and SES.
How many of you have actually sat in the SAAS communication centre with a call taker and dispatcher and got a full understanding of what they do? Especially when case numbers exceed 1000 for a day.
Just my view and some food for thought, untill you have a first hand experience you should not be to quick to pass judgement. I do not pretend to know anything about fighting fires, I leave that to you firies.