Weekly Newsletter - 8th March 2023

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Operations

Roster

Starting Saturday

Date: 11th March - 17th March

  • First Call: Crew B
  • Second Call: Crew A

Incidents

None

Interaction With Hostile Residents

Whilst most interactions with the general public and local residents are positive, it is not unheard of that residents becoming aggressive or hostile when confronted by a responding crew. The Shire of Mundaring have provided the following notes for handling such situations.

  1. Keep safe
    • The most important priority in the face of a confrontational and hostile individual is to protect yourself. If you don't feel comfortable with a situation, leave. Seek help and support if necessary, by leaving property and contact 6IP and request police to attend.
  2. Keep your distance, and keep your options open
    • Not all confrontational and hostile individuals are worth negotiating with. Your time is valuable, and your happiness and well-being important. Unless there's something important at stake, don't expend yourself by trying to negotiate with a person who's negatively entrenched. keep a healthy distance and avoid engagement unless you absolutely must.
  3. Keep your cool and avoid escalation
    • One of the most common characteristics of confrontational and hostile individuals is that they project their aggression to push your buttons and keep you off balance. By doing so, they create an advantage from which they can exploit your weaknesses. If you are required to deal with a difficult individual, one of the most important rules of thumb to keep your cool. The less reactive you are to provocations, the more you can use your better judgement to handle the situation.
  4. Contact Police
    1. If persons at incident are acting in a hostile or aggressive manner
      • If possible and incident permits, crews remove themselves from the situation and request police assistance via ComCen
    2. Persons at incident have assaulted a brigade member
      • Request police attendance due to assault on brigade member, brigade member should file a complaint to police on arrival or, post incident the individual may contact the police assist line 131444 or attend a Police Station and lodge a complaint

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this, please contact Adrian or Dave Wh.

Updates

Circulars and SOPs

Mundaring Fire School

No updates.

Administration

SoM Annual Volunteer Family Event, 25th March

This year’s Event will be held at Harry Riseborough Oval, Hartung Street Mundaring on Saturday 25th March 2023 commencing at 1700 hours, and is open to all volunteers and their families.

The format will be along similar lines as previous years with the tug-of-war between Brigades, State Emergency Service and all other challengers for the Fire & Emergency Services trophy. At the completion of the games there will be a presentation of Life Membership Awards, followed by the evening meal.

The catering for the event will be handled by WA Spit Roast, who will supply all the meat, salads, bread, desserts, condiments, cutlery and plates. Beer, wine and soft drink will be supplied. Please note there will be no charge.

A Bouncy Castle has been hired and a DJ will be providing the music. For your own comfort, it is suggested to bring along chairs or picnic rugs.

Anyone interested in the tug-of-war, please contact Vicki.

Weekly Calendar

  • Saturday 11th: Training - Sector Commander, 09:30 at the Station
  • Tuesday 14th: Weekly Vehicle Checks, 19:30 at the Station, Crew B

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