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𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐥 - 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞![]()
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Tim Clifford MLC spoke in the Legislative Council about our ongoing Enterprise Bargaining process yesterday evening:![]()
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📈 "Firefighters remain some of the most underpaid, under-resourced and undervalued government workers that we have."![]()
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🗣️ "I have advocated publicly, and now in this chamber, for timely, good-faith bargaining. I am afraid that this appears to be missing in the case of the firies. Unlike other workforces, firefighters do not strike—they cannot, really, for obvious reasons. They are an essential service."![]()
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🚒 "The Department of Fire and Emergency Services' decommissioning of fire trucks is already occurring and this is affecting the safety of the community."![]()
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👥 "The union has put forward minimum principles for 2025's enterprise bargaining agreement. First is the backpay of overtime. We are not sure why it has happened, but there is $2.5 million in overtime owed since 9 June 2023. This should not become a bargaining item."![]()
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🪙 "Second is a remuneration adjustment. There needs to be a $2 an hour adjustment for senior firefighters to correct a base wage deficiency." ![]()
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💼 "Third is a government-funded work value review. There is a need for an independent government-funded review with outcomes implemented within 12 months. This has been a part of existing agreements for at least the past five years."![]()
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👥 Parity with the CSA agreement on key allowances is particularly important for on-call availability allowances, in which firefighters are paid almost 50% less than their colleagues in the same department. This has been an issue for over 10 years."![]()
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📳 "There must be a review of the operational support allowance for call-back, hold-back mobile phone use, safe personal protective clothing return, tiered deployment and specialist roles to bring Western Australia in line with other states."![]()
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🪜 "There needs to be classification reform. Western Australia needs a funded leading firefighter and station officer class 3 positions to modernise structures, support progression and improve retention."![]()
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Full Statement in Hansard: www.parliament.wa.gov.au/hansard/daily/uh/2025-09-18/53?sid=64a8f444645446e3bb![]()
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𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫 𝐋𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐲 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐇𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐋𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐲![]()
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Hope Valley Pump and Light Tanker were Decommissioned at 4pm this afternoon due to their Station Officer reaching excessive overtime hours (24 hours) on top of their normal hours of work.![]()
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This required Fremantle 1st to be removed from their district to cover Hope Valley.![]()
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Within mere minutes of Fremantle arriving at Hope Valley, a 000 call was received to a Road Crash Rescue with life involvement (persons trapped in vehicles) in Anketell (not far from Hope Valley's Station). ![]()
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The Firefighters from Hope Valley sought permission to attend with Fremantle 1st as they knew backup from Cockburn or Kwinana Volunteer Fire and Rescue Service would not be timely due to traffic conditions. ![]()
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Fremantle and the Firefighters from Hope Valley successfully rescued the occupants of the involved vehicles, forming a crew of one Station Officer to six Firefighters. Rescue efforts would have been hampered significantly without the presence of Hope Valley's crews. ![]()
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This outcome was down to sheer luck that Fremantle had been sent and just arrived at Hope Valley. ![]()
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The issue would not have existed at all if WA Labor stopped gambling with public safety.![]()
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𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐰???![]()
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🚒 Murdoch Specialised Equipment Tender on Restricted Duties - No Confined Space Rescue capability, reduced Breathing Apparatus Support and increased risk to both public and Firefighter safety.![]()
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🚒 Cardup 3.4 Urban Tanker Decommissioned - Crew available, taken offline anyways and one Firefighter sent to Armadale to prevent a Firefighter from holding back today and not being available tonight.![]()
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🚒 Malaga 2.4 Urban Tanker Decommissioned - Two Firefighters offered to stay all day. This was declined so that they would be available tonight. ![]()
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WA Labor - This is beyond ridiculous.![]()
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𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐞𝐬![]()
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🚒 Cardup 3.4 Urban Tanker Decommissioned, crews were successfully recalled off-duty but then one Firefighter was sent to Armadale to replace a Firefighter that was able to remain on-shift and be stood down tomorrow morning.![]()
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🚒 Malaga 2.4 Urban Tanker Decommissioned, no staff available.![]()
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🚒 Murdoch Specialised Equipment Tender placed on Restricted Duties to enable two Firefighters to attend different stations to fill gaps in staffing. ![]()
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🚒 Albany Fire Station is also running below country staffing levels, missing one Firefighter - causing an identified safety issue for Breathing Apparatus operations and preventing all fire trucks from being crewed.![]()
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🚒 Fremantle 2nd removed from district to cover Rockingham for two hours due to them not having a Station Officer, reducing identified capability requirements in Fremantle's area during that time. ![]()
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WA Labor - This is getting out of hand.![]()
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𝐒𝐄𝐓 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭![]()
It has almost become second nature to Decommission or place Murdoch's Specialised Equipment Tender (SET) on Restricted Duties in order to prevent Pumps coming offline or Stations being shut. ![]()
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Today is no exception. A Station Officer from Murdoch's SET (which was fully crewed this morning, kept online by three staff holding back for a 24 hour shift) has been sent to Hope Valley to get their Pump and Light Tanker back online after two hours. ![]()
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The Perth metropolitan area now endures reduced Confined Space Rescue, Breathing Apparatus (BA) Entry Control (Stage II), BA Support and Specialised Equipment capabilities again today, leaving only Osborne Park SET available at full capacity. ![]()
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Kim Giddens MLA, WA Labor's nonchalance is surely concerning to you?![]()
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𝐍𝐨 𝐇𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐲![]()
Hope Valley commenced today's dayshift with no Station Officer (SO). ![]()
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Both the Core and Relief SOs are rostered off on Annual Leave, resulting in a known vacancy that has not been filled. A reliance on overtime and working additional hours would usually result in the previous nightshift SO holding back to keep the station open today (in the absence of relief staff). ![]()
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However, there was no SO for nightshift as well, due to being rostered off station for training. This required yesterday's dayshift SO to complete a 24 hour shift (their own 10 hour day and the additional 14 hour nightshift), resulting in no SO being available for the start of shift today. Making matters worse, no relief SO was available either. ![]()
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This meant that approximately 40 minutes ago, Hope Valley were 𝐮𝐧𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥 in Roger Cook's own electorate of Kwinana, reporting 𝐯𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫. ![]()
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The incident was instead attended by volunteers from Kwinana Fire and Rescue - Station 158, who took control of the incident with their Light Tanker, until Rockingham Career Fire and Rescue Service arrived with rescue equipment.![]()
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WA Labor - Time to stop gambling with Public Safety, before somebody gets hurt. ![]()
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𝐃𝐚𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐝![]()
Daglish 1st Pump and Light Tanker have also been Decommissioned for today's 10 hour day shift.![]()
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Staff shortages were unable to be filled due to no spare staff in the system. Daglish 2nd is now the only available pump for the area, which includes hospitals and other facilities that require a two pump response.![]()
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Daglish's halved capability is in addition to the Decommissioning of 1x Pump and Light Tanker, 4x Urban Tankers and a Specialised Equipment Tender today. ![]()
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WA Labor - Goodwill is gone, you're running the Career Fire and Rescue Service on empty. ![]()
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Jonathan Huston MLA and Basil Zempilas - Your electorates are at risk today.![]()
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𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐔𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐧 𝐓𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞![]()
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Cockburn 3.4 Urban Tanker, in addition to Cardup, Malaga and Joondalup's Urban Tankers, has been Decommissioned today due to staff shortages from multiple annual leave blocks (that are rostered by DFES, not chosen by Firefighters), long service leave and sick leave. ![]()
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In addition to its usual bushfire and structural firefighting response, Cockburn 3.4 UT is built into the fire response for Jandakot airport, given water supply limitations on the runways and aprons. This response has subsequently been reduced for the 10 hour day shift.![]()
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David Scaife MLA - Is WA Labor just hoping there's no aircraft emergencies before nightshift? Is public safety really not that big a deal?![]()
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𝐍𝐨 𝐔𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐧 𝐓𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫![]()
Joondalup's 2.4 Urban Tanker (UT) has been decommissioned due to staff shortages once again today. ![]()
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No relief Firefighters were qualified or available to fill these vacancies. Two staff members, who were holding back, volunteered to stay all shift, but this offer was declined. With Malaga's 2.4 UT also Decommissioned today, there is no Career Fire and Rescue Service UT capability North of the River.![]()
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Joondalup's 2.4UT was required for a Structure Fire in Banksia Grove just days ago, with more breathing apparatus crews required for the third alarm inferno. However, it had been Decommissioned due to a lack of staff at the start of shift, requiring crews from Duncraig to attend, leaving the communities from Butler to Duncraig without Fire and Rescue coverage until a Pump and Light Tanker crew was moved from Vincent to standby at Joondalup. ![]()
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Emily Hamilton MLA - Help!?!? WA Labor is toying with public safety!![]()
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