RE: [californiadisasters] Prepare for Carmageddon With Mobile Disaster Kit

That’s easy.  Cops do crowd control, evacuations, security and make arrests.  Firefighters do the haz mat, fire, medical etc.  If they can’t stay on their own side of the fence yet work in a coordinated manner, that’s childish and unprofessional.  It’s not about being crowd pleasing, it’s about who can do the better job for the task(s) at hand.  While the command structures are similar, they aren’t the same.  Firefighters never consider a detention area; cops never consider a decon area.  You don’t ask the Army to command a fleet and you don’t ask the Air Force about tank assault vehicles (though you might ask a Marine either).

 

However if they’re considering combining police and fire into one agency, that’s a really terrible idea.  It never works well.  Consider a cop arriving on scene of a drunk driving vehicle accident, does he treat the injured as a medic, put out the fire, divert traffic or make an arrest?  Nope they can only do one job well at a time.  Besides, the training time alone will break the budget bank because there is so much annual training required, they’d almost never be actually working on the street.

 

A Chief put into the one rule over two disciplines won’t have loyalties to either side, nor support from either side.  It’s purely politics meant to fertilize the garden.

 

One discipline, one agency to do it.

 

Rick WA6NHC

 

PS most of the folks on this list won’t know that 73 is ham talk for best regards.  {shh, only the lucky ones know that.}

 

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From: kevin asato

 

Only problem towards a unified command structure and possible unified South Bay Police and Fire Services are civic pride about who would be in charge. It's been a simmering topic for the last few years with dwindling city budgets. 73, kevin  kc6pob

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