Money verses Safety

[medevac]

there are state SOPs for levels of response to incidents...

not that nyone likes state SOPS 

[Toast]

yeah

Isnt it an all CFS ruling?

Depends what the job is. The SOP's have a nice listing of appliances required at certain incidents I think.

[medevac]

1st alarm - first response

rural - 2 app
total fire ban rural - auto second alarm (4 app)
structure fire - 2 app min. including at least 1 BA brigade
RCR - 1x RCR app & 1x Fire app
HAZMAT - 2 HAZMAT apps & 1x Fire app & DGO/GO/GDO & RDO
Vehicle Fire - 1x app minimum (minimum 1 BA brigade)
Special Service - 1 app (p2)


hope that is laid out easy enough to understand... btw that is taken directly from the State SOPs

[medevac]

by the way...

an appliance is defined as a minimum of a 22 or larger appliance or
with two light rural (14 or QAV) appliances considered one appliances

RCR - as per directory, eg. heavy rescue

[PF_]

I asume those SOP's include MFS appliances as we turned out to an MVA on Monday night with MFS as the RCR brigade (I assume)  they werent needed though when we got there as all we mainly did was direct traffic.

[medevac]

takes into account both fire service and SES rescue, as all three services have there respective RCR areas...

re; fires, i believe CFS will still send enough CFS for the full SOP... eg. EMA area (but CFS turf)2x CFS for rural jobbie, plus whatever MFS feel like sending... i dont know the specifics, but it ensures that the minimum amount of appliances per SOP are sent...