SwiftWorks submission see link below, advocated empowerment of volunteers in operational command situations the key points of our submission highlighted comments made by DFES representatives at a 2015 software presentation:
- “It would be a least four years before DFES could consider a system such as this as too
many of our existing systems would be made redundant”. - “The idea that volunteer fire fighters could have on line access to an operational
command system is not acceptable.”
1a. The response to the January 2016 Waroona Fire
(a) The effectiveness of pre-incident bushfire
prevention and mitigation activities
1d. The response to the January 2016 Waroona Fire
(d) The effectiveness of incident management,
including coordination of agencies, volunteer fire
and emergency services and interstate assistance