 G'day all again I just want to take this opportunity so I've been out and about a number of locations probably met up with probably many of you and there's been a bit of a theme on some of the questions so I thought I'd take this opportunity to share with you and answer some of the questions in a theme sense that we've been getting up so getting questions such as will surge capacity being protected by the changes will volunteer brigades still come under the leadership of the CFA chief officer some real operational sort of question so I just want to be really clear about it what's being proposed here is that the 35 primary response areas for the for our integrated brigades will be excised from CFA and will become fire rescue Victoria area the rest of CFA remains the same so to answer that more specific questions if you're a volunteer now or a captain or a lieutenant at a particular brigade you're still responsible for your area even if a fire rescue truck then turns up with career stuff on the incident controller remains and accountability remains with the CFA chief officer and the people within CFA so in that sense there's no change when we talk about will surge capacity be impacted if you then look at the same lens it said the same people will remain in place the only change is a geographical change to those 35 locations and the volunteers indeed will stay in those locations then you would suggest to you that there's no impact in surge capacity at all have to address also some of our staff so some of the questions coming out of the staff are a particular admin type staff with cross CFA are we going to lose our jobs will there be job losses um this the ministers made it quite clear there will be no job losses but it is fair to say that it's there'll be some movement in this space so people could go to fire rescue Victoria it's likely people will stay in CFA and the like I've talked about who runs the fire ground in fire rescue Victoria area will clearly if it's in fire rescue Victoria area as it does now the station officer or the leading firefighter or the officer from fire rescue Victoria will run and be the incident controller of those fires and indeed we can support CFA will be supporting them and if they're on our side they'll support us etc so in that sense we're looking at this through an operational lens of little change and we still have to make sure we're getting that interoperability on the fire ground look I know there are many more questions and I'll continue to get those out there and speak to many people as as I can as we go through all these changes but I also wanted to take this opportunity to thank all our CFA people for the sensible and I reckon respectful way that the changes are being worked through and the discussions and the debates that we're having I know it hasn't always been easy as easy especially with the spotlight on us but I would urge urge you all to continue to to respect each other to keep at the top of our mind that we we all share the same sense of duty to protect our communities any suggestions let's make it really clear any suggestions we are not providing great service to this community or our community safety we're compromising any way by any individual any group is absolute nonsense and I'm saying that as much as possible I'll call it out for what it absolutely is it's probably a stronger word but is absolute rubbish so don't get caught up in all those seeking to create mischief let's continue to say focus on our day-to-day job and the ability to respond to the needs of our community I know we do a great job looking after our community let's make sure we also look after each other along the journey and stay safe thank you