Cfa Sirens For Volunteers And The Community

[_Ryan_]

Knowing a lot of members head up the mt dandy for various reasons, or might reside there, this may be of interest.

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CFA SIRENS SURVEY PREAMBLE

In line with CFA sirens policy relating to community alerting, the Dandenong Ranges Community Bushfire Group Inc (DRCBG) is surveying the community to ascertain the level of support across the Dandenong Ranges for use of existing sirens as an alert for residents, to immediately seek further information.

As CFA volunteers within the community play an essential role, so do the CFA sirens for alerting many residents.

CFA Sirens are currently used by most brigades to summon the CFA volunteers to a "000" generated incident. This may be a fire, car accident, a rescue, or many other incidents that require a CFA response. The secondary effect of the "call-out" siren is the alerting of a the community of "an incident" and the need to be cautious on the roads with the CFA responding to the incident.

The DRCBG proposal seeks not to change the way a brigade summons volunteers via the initial "call-out" siren, but to further use the CFA sirens across the Dandenong Ranges for community alerting in the event of a potential or pending emergency.

It is proposed that the siren be distinguishable from the normal call-out siren, either by frequency or length of use, to notify the immediate communities of concern. Education to the community will be essential in the use of these sirens.

DRCBG seeks your support for use of the CFA sirens as a community alert in emergencies requiring immediate attention and further investigation, before evaluating next actions or plans. Sirens are only one of many options for alert available .

If you support the use of sirens as a community alert, please vote YES and inform others in your address book of this survey as a matter of urgency.

To be successful we must show majority community support for this proposal which will be an undertaking of election proportions.

[jesiotrot]

Signed, I live in Belgrave and have heard the siren sound twice today already!