Matt,Longreach wrote:Hi all,
Yeah fair enough, I notice its a little quieter now. You do get the odd stresshead operator but seems to be working well as a listener.
what was the go too with ringing in code 5's?
cheers
Matt
Crews ringing in their return to station (code 5) . . . Yea this one has got me too.
Sydney Station's have always rang Sydney Comm's when returning to station, it was only the country station's who use to pass code 5's to either Katoomba, Wollongong or Newcastle Comm Centres, this changed when we moved to two Comm Centres, maybe to reduce the ESCAD search time of radio operators in trying to find the incident and add the code 5 of an appliance into the ESCAD.
The general view of most of us on the trucks is, the ESCAD is not as good as the old FireCAD System, but the Government wanted a "Whole of Emergency Service CAD System" and now it is in, well as the saying goes . . . we just have to try and make a pole of crap look and smell like ice cream