Originally Posted by
finestkind
Perhaps NSW needs to invest a bit more in aerial equipment which they can than lease to the other states
Or maybe the federal govt should buy some additional ones, have them spread around australia so there one capital city, when required they can fly them to where needed, as they still have a passenger compartments you could fly over the ground crews + 100ish extra firefighters.
The feds should pony up for scheme that has some of the large air tankers and based at RAAF bases around the country as well have having groups of firefighters that are still volunteers but paid when mobilised so they can deploy in the aircraft and assist local fighters on the ground when needed. Who knows might be some cheap maxs to convert into LATS coming up soon