Ok. Can I try to make this really easy for everyone involved?
There are a couple of different scenarios being discussed here and they need to be separated. Its more about commonsense than a hard and fast rule.
First of all, lets say there is a House Fire on the border of Mt. Barker and Littlehapton. Its the middle of the day. We all know Mt. Barker can get crews for at least two trucks, Littlehampton are good, but not a certainty. In this case, I would immediately turn out the Pump and 24P from Mt. Barker, as they both carry CABA, and would have enough operators. When Littlehampton arrive in their 24P and 24 if they get enough crew, that makes 4 trucks total on the fire ground. This ain't bad for a volunteer service. Depending on the fire, you would even query Littlehampton 24.
Ok, so nothing wrong with that. CFS turning out into CFS area. Brigades turning out more than one truck. Questionable crewing, daytime, etc etc etc.
Now for the Salisbury example, if SAMFS already have multiple resources assigned, they are not asking for the help of the CFS (Oh CFS COME SAVE US) its more of a courtesy than anything else. Much like the wacky responses for Seafood and Morphett Vale and MFS that sent 6 Trucks to a Rubbish fire, because the CFS boys took it upon themselves to unleash every truck in the station.
Use your head! Its not hard. If you are turning out into MFS area to a job of THEIRS, chances are they have it in hand at the moment, and you're backup or a courtesy. You don't need to rush out the door and then have the 'rest' of your BA crew come 15 minutes later. As RescueHazmat and others have already said in this thread, just relax and think.
As I was trying to suggest earlier in the thread as well, its in places like Mt. Lofty group that get 9 trucks to a small shed fire, block the road and look like a bunch of ******* because people don't think about whats been turned out, whats at the job already and whats needed. Got the 12 at the job and the 24P is crewed 10mins later? ASK if its needed. Need another resource? Try to get it from a Brigade already assigned rather than get another whole brigade and 100 trucks turned out.
People bang on about being Professional Volunteers, but as soon as the pagers go off, its like their brain melts and it turns into a Dads Army filtered with a billion trucks in a street doing nothing just so 'everyone gets a go'
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