SAS

Name: SAS
Rating: 3.1 (127 reviews)
Author: State of Victoria - Department of Justice

Supplementary Alerting Service

Free

127 Ratings
Ages

13+
Years
Category

Utilities
Developer

State of Victoria - Department of Justice
Language

EN
English
Size

152
MB

The Supplementary Alerting Service app is an official Victorian Government app for career and volunteer emergency services personnel. It supplements and connects to the Emergency Alerting System in use today by career and volunteer emergency service personnel across Victoria. Supported agencies are CFA, SES and AV. Your agency needs to provide you with login details to access this app. Main features: • Notifications of emergencies • Respond to emergencies, view other responders and their ETA to the event • Chat with other agency users • Forecast availability

Ratings & Reviews

3.1

out of 5

127 Ratings

Possible enhancements
08/09/2024

buster-123
I gave been using SAS for about 6 months as a SES volunteer and find it very good to use. During the recent weather event, August 2024, the app alerted hundreds of times and one day probably every minute when a new job was assigned. I was frustrating when searching for a job say from the previous day and a new job alerts. The app will refresh the page to the new job. So you then have to scroll back through the hundreds of jobs to search again.2 possible enhancements.1. Add a search by job number2. Do not refresh the job page when a new job alert comes in.
Possible enhancements
08/09/2024

buster-123

I gave been using SAS for about 6 months as a SES volunteer and find it very good to use. During the recent weather event, August 2024, the app alerted hundreds of times and one day probably every minute when a new job was assigned. I was frustrating when searching for a job say from the previous day and a new job alerts. The app will refresh the page to the new job. So you then have to scroll back through the hundreds of jobs to search again.2 possible enhancements.1. Add a search by job number2. Do not refresh the job page when a new job alert comes in.
Has potential
06/12/2020

Dicko213
The app has the potential to be great but unfortunately falls short in most areas, with most of the features feeling like they got started but never finished off properly. It seems like the developers searched through BART for all the great/user friendly features and then said ‘we won’t be using these’. Undoubtably the worst feature is the availability. It is tediously difficult to set, read and understand and then once you have invested the extraordinary amount of time for what should be a simple task, the only person that can see it is yourself. Why would I need to see my own availability, I already know it? The two biggest reasons for having a ‘S.A.S.’ Is for those without pagers and to know your brigades availability to make decisions around taking time off, predicting crewing availability and to see who will be attending each job. Unless you’re admin and prepared to constantly download a report as people update their availability, the feature is useless, except for the seeing who’s attending portion.The general layout and look is quite good but given that it’s a phone, you want to be able to click attending before driving so being able to do from the pager screen without clicking right into each job would be better. Also, iPhone needs to add the critical alerts feature.
Has potential
06/12/2020

Dicko213

The app has the potential to be great but unfortunately falls short in most areas, with most of the features feeling like they got started but never finished off properly. It seems like the developers searched through BART for all the great/user friendly features and then said ‘we won’t be using these’. Undoubtably the worst feature is the availability. It is tediously difficult to set, read and understand and then once you have invested the extraordinary amount of time for what should be a simple task, the only person that can see it is yourself. Why would I need to see my own availability, I already know it? The two biggest reasons for having a ‘S.A.S.’ Is for those without pagers and to know your brigades availability to make decisions around taking time off, predicting crewing availability and to see who will be attending each job. Unless you’re admin and prepared to constantly download a report as people update their availability, the feature is useless, except for the seeing who’s attending portion.The general layout and look is quite good but given that it’s a phone, you want to be able to click attending before driving so being able to do from the pager screen without clicking right into each job would be better. Also, iPhone needs to add the critical alerts feature.
Great launch
21/11/2020

Ethan3458
App works great going off on average 18 seconds before the pager but one day went off 2 minutes before the pager was enough time to already be at the station. Only down fall is the sounds are not great. We need louder sounds that will wake you like BART had, incase the pager is flat which happened to me. I would have given 5 stars but because of the sound issues I can only give 4. Hope to see more sounds added sooner rather than later.
Great launch
21/11/2020

Ethan3458

App works great going off on average 18 seconds before the pager but one day went off 2 minutes before the pager was enough time to already be at the station. Only down fall is the sounds are not great. We need louder sounds that will wake you like BART had, incase the pager is flat which happened to me. I would have given 5 stars but because of the sound issues I can only give 4. Hope to see more sounds added sooner rather than later.
Unable to fix error message
17/02/2025

Sharky Bruce 2025
Recently my app began showing error#1022 in push notifications (iPhone), I can no longer mute or unmute. So new jobs don’t alert for me. Also shows #1070 in global settings. I’m in Ambulance space, our IT guys were only able to advise me to delete and reinstall, this hasn’t helped. Also tried resetting iPhone, still no luck. App is virtually useless at present as it won’t alert to a new job.
Unable to fix error message
17/02/2025

Sharky Bruce 2025

Recently my app began showing error#1022 in push notifications (iPhone), I can no longer mute or unmute. So new jobs don’t alert for me. Also shows #1070 in global settings. I’m in Ambulance space, our IT guys were only able to advise me to delete and reinstall, this hasn’t helped. Also tried resetting iPhone, still no luck. App is virtually useless at present as it won’t alert to a new job.

Release 12.0.0 is compatible with iOS 26.1 (as of 26th of November) and the two previous iOS versions. This is a major release that includes: - Integration with CarPlay, allowing users to use SAS in compatible vehicles. - Code enhancements to pager messages loading approach for homepage and dashboard. - Code enhancements to update device local storage to retrieve user info.

Version 12.0.0

07/12/2025

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