Alan, brigades & trucks are never put 'on jobs' as such. If we get a call we send it out to the brigade whos area it is, regardless of whether they are already on a job, its then there responsibility to organise attendance.
We can however take brigades out of the system, eg if a single appliance station is getting the truck serviced...
So in other words, resources aren't really being "tracked" on turn-outs.
Not actively, anyway. The info isn't being used in Wakefield St to amend
responses to subsequent turn-outs.
Each Group/Brigade must do its own real-world resource tracking.
Therefore the only "benefit" of reporting in to Ad-Fire appliance-by-appliance
is a tape recording of the response message, versus the time-stamped call
record in the GRN for all other transmissions.
Therefore Sturt's process of the Group Duty Officer taking ownership of the
call and managing it from 1st page, is merely actively working ahead of an
otherwise passive system, designed for brigades which don't have active Group
support & participation.
Therefore it doesn't matter a tinker's cuss whether a group base responds
its own resources or goes through Adelaide Fire. Nobody outside the group
(or brigade) officially knows or even cares about the resources (ex-CFS Ad-Fire
people excepted!!).
Thanks & cheers.
