With rumours that the CFS are finally going to build a real fire appliance for Burnside, should they also look at introducing Aerial Appliances to areas that need them, or should this remain the domain of SAMFS?
An area like Mt. Barker for example, that has recently had a large number of housing developments, a very large commercial shopping complex built, and multiple long standing industrial complexes could most certainly do with Aerial Appliance.
Nothing like a Bronto, that can't work stand alone, but something like an MFS Skyjet, that can act as both a normal Pumper with urban stowage and a Aerial when needed. It would allow an area like Mt. Barker to have two Pumpers, one with rescue stowage, one with just urban firefighting stowage.
The flip side is, what to do about training, driving, license requirements etc. etc. It would be a large cost outlay for the CFS. Would it be better to just wait for the MFS to build a station in the area? Or should the CFS take a stand and attempt to try and deliver best service it can to the community with state of the art equipment?
