CFA have advised that ESTA will roll out several enhancements to the paging templates during December 2018, these enhancements have been facilitated based on feedback from the field.
Members would remember from previous VFBV Joint Committee updates that back in 2013, CFA agreed to modify the format of pager messages that would see the ten-digit incident number moved from the front of the message – to the end. This was a result of strong volunteer feedback when CFA moved from the old 4-line EAS Pager to the now two-line Alpha Legend pagers. The logic; given the smaller screen real-estate – moving any non-essential info out of the first two lines would help people see more important incident information without having to scroll.
The enhancements being rolled out next month include (but are not restricted to) the following;
• Event number will now be at the end of the pager message
• Alarm template has been updated to include the Key Peg in front of key details (where key peg details have been provided)
• EMR template has been updated to include the agencies notified and the AV case number at the end of the pager message. Also changed is the EMR ancillary page (non-emergency) which will not contain patient details but still allow non EMR responder's to know the Brigade has been paged to an EMR event
An example of the new format is below:
CFA Operational Communications has also put out a document outlining the changes in more detail and providing several examples. You can download a copy of that guide form the bottom of this page, under Downloads.
