State guide

SA emergency data: sources and coverage

South Australia has more feeds than any other state, and the ones most worth having are also the easiest to get wrong. Two of them return local time dressed up as epoch milliseconds.

Overview

Three agencies publish via ArcGIS REST through SAFECOM: CFS (Country Fire Service), MFS (Metropolitan Fire Service) and SES. Four pager feeds from urgmsg.net add dispatch-level data with exact addresses and the units sent.

Available feeds

Feed	Format	Update	Coverage
SA CFS Incidents	JSON	3 min	Bushfires, rural
SA MFS Incidents	ArcGIS REST	60 sec	Metro Adelaide fire
SA SES Incidents	ArcGIS REST	60 sec	Floods, storms, rescues
CFS/MFS Pager	RSS (custom)	60 sec	Dispatch data, addresses
SES Pager	RSS (custom)	60 sec	SES dispatch data
SAAS Pager	RSS (custom)	2 min	Ambulance dispatch
Bomber Pager	RSS (custom)	60 sec	Aviation firefighting

The four pager feeds are community-decoded public radio traffic, not official agency publications. Our /v1/attribution endpoint marks every source as official or community-derived, so you can filter or label them.

Integration notes

Agencies: CFS (bushfires), MFS (metro fire), SES (floods, storms, rescues), plus CFS-PAGER, SES-PAGER, SAAS-PAGER and BOMBER-PAGER.
Timestamps: The critical one. MFS and SES ArcGIS feeds return epoch milliseconds in Adelaide local time (ACST UTC+9:30 or ACDT UTC+10:30), not UTC. Treat them as UTC and every timestamp lands 9.5 to 10.5 hours in the future. Subtract the offset before converting.
Daylight saving: Adelaide observes it, so the offset moves between +9:30 in winter and +10:30 in summer, changing on the first Sunday of April and October.
Geometry: ArcGIS feeds use a different JSON structure to GeoJSON and need conversion. The CFS JSON feed uses "lat,lng" strings that need parsing.
Pager feeds: Unofficial dispatch intercepts carrying exact street addresses, unit callsigns and incident detail the official feeds do not publish.