Wallaroo call sign

[fire8029]

notice this today
23-06-11 11:30:30 WL40 Cat5 Wallaroo Hospital (nyphs) . Irwin St, Wallaroo C299 G10 - SAAS Unit WL1
usually wallaroo is WL76 or WL81 or WL181
what is WL40 and WL1?

[Defer]

Hi

I can only talk from experiences down here at the South East, but a  40 call sign is usually used for a Cert II or IV which can be classed as a crew. Also the RTL might have been doing some driver training with a Cert II vollie. Most likely that the RTL was in Wallaroo providing some training and worked a shift for them today, hence the reason you have WL1. Again, only talking from experiences down here.

Will

[82740444]

Hi

I can only talk from experiences down here at the South East, but a  40 call sign is usually used for a Cert II or IV which can be classed as a crew. Also the RTL might have been doing some driver training with a Cert II vollie. Most likely that the RTL was in Wallaroo providing some training and worked a shift for them today, hence the reason you have WL1. Again, only talking from experiences down here.

Will

WRONG!

A 40 car is either a spare car, sporting standby or special event car (can be career or volunteer crew)
A 400 car is a volunteer solo responder working in a normal ambulance
WL1 is the Wallaroo Clinical Team Leader station boss (not a RTL)

[Defer]

I'm in SE not Wallaroo, Yes you're right a 40 car can also be used for what you said. But a 40 crew can be used as a full crew for a cert 4 and another ambo officer. The 40 crew is usually paired for cert 2 students to do some work. They aren't an operational crew, what I mean is that they don't go seeking for jobs they respond if necessary.

[82740444]

WRONG again sorry

Refer to your training and induction manual. There is no geographical differences to SAAS communications policies or call signs. A ambulance officer cert 4 working with a student is still a SOLO (400 call sign) responder because their partner is not qualified and just coming alone for the ride/experience.

40 is a full Crew (2 qualifieds on board either 2 paras, 2 cert 4 or a cert 4/cert 2 qualified combo)

I'm guessing you have not done your Comms/EOC lecture yet?

[Defer]

Im brand new, little under a week on the job so I'm still learning. I did remember being told that. Just love shift work, messes with your sleep pattern...

[Skippy]

Hi

I can only talk from experiences down here at the South East, but a  40 call sign is usually used for a Cert II or IV which can be classed as a crew. Also the RTL might have been doing some driver training with a Cert II vollie. Most likely that the RTL was in Wallaroo providing some training and worked a shift for them today, hence the reason you have WL1. Again, only talking from experiences down here.

Will

WRONG!

WL1 is the Wallaroo Clinical Team Leader station boss (not a RTL)

Does he operate out of a normal ambulance or is he just based at the station making sure things flow smoothly?

[82740444]

Out of a Territory when on function time and not rostered on a normal ambulance crew.

[Skippy]

So you have one at full time regional SAAS stations? I've seen FP1 and V1 around before too, but I thought V1 might be the call sign for the MPS. Is FP1 based at Mt Barker because the few times he has responded to an incident has been around the mt barker-stirling area.

[disOrderly]

FP1 is based in Mt Barker, that's where FP76 comes from too.