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Question and Answer Tracking Details

9917 - TECHNICAL RESCUE VEHICLE

Hornery, Sonia to the Minister for Police, and Minister for Emergency Services
  1. Will the new $1.2 million state-of-the-art Technical Rescue Vehicle be capable of carrying all of the equipment currently carried by the Urban Search and Rescue vehicles?
    1. If not, what life saving equipment will be left off the new vehicles?
Answer -

I am advised:

The new Technical Rescue Vehicles (TRVs) will be equipped to deal with partial structure collapse rescue, trench rescue, confined space rescue, and large animal rescue. They also provide additional equipment to assist in complex transport incidents, bariatric patient handling and incident ground lighting. This is a capability the current Heavy Rescue Vehicles cannot supply, as this equipment is normally carried on an Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) Vehicle. The new TRV makes this equipment available as part of the immediate incident response.


Question asked on 15 November 2018 (session 56-1) and printed in Questions & Answers Paper No. 214
Answer received on 20 December 2018 and printed in Questions & Answers Paper No. 218