[talk-au] SES Sheds

[John Smith]

2009/12/25 Alex (Maxious) Sadleir <maxious at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 10:08 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> How are people tagging these, they aren't like other emergency
>> services and you can't contact them by dialing 000 for that matter.
> On the wiki it is proposed that emergency_services=technical [1] is
> the key for "technical services" such as Civil Defence/Civil
> Protection forces.
>
> In the ACT, we have these community fire units [2] - trailers filled
> with some basic equipment and manned by volunteers ("break in case of
> bushfire")... I wonder how they would fit into emergency_service=*.
>
> 1: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Emergency_service
> 2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_fire_unit
>

emergency_service=community_fire_service?

Lots of small towns have varying amounts/types of equipment, some even
have a small engine which they let kids play with on open days to
encourage more to volunteer... :)