australia public safety info

based on limited info from 12,000 miles away

most public safety agencies in australia are coordinated at the 'state' level

australia only has 5 states ish - north - south - west - new south
wales - victoria - iirc thats the whole show right there

most states seem to have :

a statewide police agency

plus a statewide ambulance agency (mixture fulltime and on call / volunteer)

plus a statewide volunteer fire agency

and a paid fire agency that covers the major cities and suburbs

and a statewide volunteer 'state emergency service' that handles road
crashes and flooding and sar and fallen trees

in addition - wildfire units are operated by watershed agencies and
state forestry and state parks

there are a few military bases that have their own police and fire etc

the private fire brigades at industrial sites seem to be in very rural
areas and play closely with the statewide volunteer fire agencies

various names are used - cfa - cfs - mfs - frv - etc - it varies by
state - such as country fire service (cfs) and county fire authority
(CFA) etc - this is where the marketing people rear their ugly heads

each state might have just 1 or 2 dispatch centers for each agency -
its kinda crazy - 500 fire stations controlled by 1 dispatch center -
its easy with a good cad and a good paging system and a good radio
system - they make it work somehow - not sure how fast it works
however

the statewide volunteer fire agencys use 'tankers' - the goofy looking
pumpers with 700 gallon of water and 2 scba each - the city FDs use
urban pumpers which are similar to usa pumpers but they also have
booster lines for attack (hard rubber hoses) - not sure if any of the
vol FFs have bunker gear or just jumpsuits