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By: beachsunriver
6/11/2009
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Fire protection: new suburbs miss out
A growing number of people in NSW are missing out on the fire protection they need.
Only residents in the most populous parts of NSW are protected by career fighters in permanently staffed stations.
Outside of Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong, communities rely on part-time âretainedâ firefighters of the NSW Fire Brigade or the firefighting volunteers of the Rural Fire Service. These firefighters do a great job balancing their âdayâ jobs with responding to fire emergencies.
But weâre worried that permanent fire protection isnât keeping pace with the growth and spread of population in NSW. There is no formula for establishing permanent stations based on population growth or density.
In fact, industrial developments are given priority fire protection over new housing developments.
This means that many regional centres and new suburbs in outer Western Sydney and the Central and South Coast â full of young families â donât have the fire protection they need.
Lismore, like many regional centres, has no firefighters at the station overnight.
Many residents of Campbelltown and other outer-metropolitan areas rely on RFS volunteers to respond to fire emergencies in their homes.
The RFS plays an important role in responding to seasonal bushfires, but to have residential areas serviced by volunteer firefighters is not fair on anyone.
For better fire protection for NSW, we need:
â¢more fire stations
â¢more permanent career firefighters
â¢a plan to ensure new residential developments have proper, professional fire protection, based on population.
At the moment, whether a new fire station is built comes largely down to whether local governments and community groups get out and campaign for one.
But communities should not have to rely on the vagaries of politics for fire protection. We all have a right expect appropriate fire protection â along with all essential public services. |
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By: homer_simpsons_buddy
6/11/2009
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| The Government is probably just trying to save money. |
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By: beachsunriver
6/11/2009
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....at the risk of the community. They don`t try and save money when they vote to increase their travel allowances, living away from home allowances and payrises above and beyond what all govt workers receive.
The government don`t try and save money when they vote to increase their already extravagent super annuation pension payouts.
But when it comes to protecting the community, they try and cut costs by closing down poloice stations, fire stations in already populated areas and try not to open emergency services in new areas UNLESS IT GETS NOTICED BY THE PUBLIC! |
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