Unique IDFN-0025Description***This function applies to all Councils***
For Councils other than Sydney City Council, absorbed by the City by 1949, see function FUN 29 for details [also subject to research about other relevant legislation such as the NES Act]
Provision by the Council of emergency precaution and response services.
This function is subject to further research. Two areas of functional responsibility have been tentatively identified: military hospitals and wartime patriotic activities 1915-1918; and emergency air raid precautions and patriotic activities 1942-1945.
The minutes of the Water Committee from 1847 mention that men were being paid for assisting at fires. By 1851 the Council had resolved to establish a fire brigade of 12 men employed on the corporation works (CRS19/1).
The City Council's respondses to natural disasters and wartime emergency through fundraising and other welfare activities overlap with this function but are considered to be mainly related to CF 7, Charitable Aid.CreationSubject to research. The 1915 date refers to the participation by the Lord Mayor on the Military Hospitals Advisory Committee.
National Emergency Service Act 1941 (?). Municipalities responsible for waryime air raid precautions and other activities. Further research is needed.
