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But what about the BIG ticket items.

10 million for a new city fire station (just so the government can get hold of the land the current station is on so i'm told) and

46 million just to relocate FESA's headquarters. Now that is a great amount of money (about 20+% of their budget) that could be ...

Out of the 1300 odd structure fires attended the vast majority would have been attended by paid firemen. Therefore the small number attended by volunteers would not vary the times.

It also does not still change the fact that FESA are only meeting their response time standard 50% of the time. When ...

You might like to have a look at this web page from the 2007 Federal Government Productivity Commission report on Government Services.

http://www.pc.gov.au/gsp/reports/rogs/2007/emergencymanagement/attachment08.pdf

The response times are broken down to the following: Major cities, Inner Regional ...

I found that an interesting read jmmw & as now has being pointed out there is specifically a thread for this but for those who interested you may find this interesting site to have a look at as many people don't know of it.

The Federal Government Productivity Commission produces a report every year ...

Well how have things improved then, now you have mentioned it? I'd be interested in reading your opinion....

If you have a rant... take it elsewhere... there is a thread specifically for that.

Also, become part of the solution... don't just sit here and criticise.

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Wouldn't it be reasonable to say that the ability of getting people, trucks and equipment as fast as possible to any fire would reduce the severity and damage?

FACT - Perth has the slowest metropolitan fire brigade in Australia.

It's no way criticising the people on the trucks at all. In the end ...

What criticism?

No politics at all. I am just amazed at the number of fires that are totally lost here.

Wouldn't have anything to do with the lack of staff, vehicles and having the slowest fire service in Australia.

Another typical total LOSS