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Good work by the tower crew. Proves those who say "fires in the MLR will always be called in by someone on the ground" wrong. Yes the MLR may be densely populated compared to days gone by, and most calls will originate from someone on the ground, but towers including Lofty and Mt. Crawford still have their place.


Any ideas so to how staffing of the tower is rostered. Is it based on predicted FDI?

EIGHT alarms at the Remand Centre between 18:00 and 23:59 Thursday 2nd December. Didn't even bother looking before 18:00hrs, but wouldn't be surprised if there are even more. Are MFS even bothring to get in their trucks to attend these anymore?

Surely this is getting beyond a joke........... what are MFS doing about this? Who is the brain who designed the fire alarm system for the Remand Centre?  What will it take for someone to do something? For a delayed response by MFS to a real incident caused because they're attending yet another false alarm at the Remand Centre. Are MFS even charging for the attendance fees?

Why not ban smoking int he cells, wouldn't it be a simple fix to the problem. You can't smoke in a hospital or government building, so why is the Remand Centre any different. CRAZY!!!!!!

Almost worth moving the MFS Station to the Remand Centre, the response time would be amazing.

I'd welcome your thoughts from your forumites.

02-12-10 18:52:55    MFS: *CFSRES INC083 02/12/10 18:52,RESPOND ALARM 010/041,ADELAIDE REMAND CENTRE,240 CURRIE ST,ADELAIDE MAP 3 H 6 TG182,FIP INSIDE FRONT FOYER,,ADL205 ADL201 ADL204 ADL203 - MFS Adelaide Station Broadcast

02-12-10 19:17:02    MFS: *CFSRES INC087 02/12/10 19:16,RESPOND ALARM 010/041,ADELAIDE REMAND CENTRE,240 CURRIE ST,ADELAIDE MAP 3 H 6 TG182,FIP INSIDE FRONT FOYER,,ADL205 ADL201 ADL204 ADL203 - MFS Adelaide Station Broadcast

02-12-10 19:52:42    MFS: *CFSRES INC100 02/12/10 19:52,RESPOND ALARM 010/041,ADELAIDE REMAND CENTRE,240 CURRIE ST,ADELAIDE MAP 3 H 6 TG182,FIP INSIDE FRONT FOYER,,ADL205 ADL201 ADL204 ADL203 - MFS Adelaide Station Broadcast

02-12-10 20:39:08    MFS: *CFSRES INC110 02/12/10 20:38,RESPOND ALARM 010/041,ADELAIDE REMAND CENTRE,240 CURRIE ST,ADELAIDE MAP 3 H 6 TG182,,ADL205 ADL201 ADL204 ADL203 - MFS Adelaide Station Broadcast

02-12-10 21:10:06    MFS: *CFSRES INC114 02/12/10 21:09,RESPOND ALARM 010/041,ADELAIDE REMAND CENTRE,240 CURRIE ST,ADELAIDE MAP 3 H 6 TG182,FIP INSIDE FRONT FOYER,,ADL205 ADL201 ADL204 ADL203 - MFS Adelaide Station Broadcast

02-12-10 22:03:36    MFS: *CFSRES INC122 02/12/10 22:03,RESPOND ALARM 010/041,ADELAIDE REMAND CENTRE,240 CURRIE ST,ADELAIDE MAP 3 H 6 TG182,,ADL205 ADL201 ADL204 ADL203 - MFS Adelaide Station Broadcast

02-12-10 22:30:36    MFS: *CFSRES INC127 02/12/10 22:30,RESPOND ALARM 010/041,ADELAIDE REMAND CENTRE,240 CURRIE ST,ADELAIDE MAP 3 H 6 TG182,FIP INSIDE FRONT FOYER,,ADL205 ADL201 ADL204 ADL203 - MFS Adelaide Station Broadcast

02-12-10 23:15:01    MFS: *CFSRES INC132 02/12/10 23:14,RESPOND ALARM 010/041,ADELAIDE REMAND CENTRE,240 CURRIE ST,ADELAIDE MAP 3 H 6 TG182,FIP INSIDE FRONT FOYER,,ADL205 ADL201 ADL204 ADL203 - MFS Adelaide Station Broadcast

29-11-10 19:27:12 LYNDOCH 24 TO REMAIN ON SCENE TONIGHT FOLLOWING AN OPERATIONAL INCIDENT. TO BE RECOVERED TOMORROW MORNING 0900. MEMBERS RETURNED SAFE. ********* *********** - CFS Barossa Officers Info


Anyone know what happened? Hope it was nothing too serious, glad to see the crew were returned safe.

Agree with the bulk of that fire000...

But I reckon the section in relation to speed past emergency vehicles comes under the RTA, Division 9, Section 83, not under the ARR....

Pip

Thanks for correcting me Pip, after all with your work you're in a better position to know traffic rules/regs than me.


cheers

The 25kms past emergency applainces has not come in yet and is along way off coming in, The driver fatigue laws(log books) is still a ongoing issue as CFS is not yet exempt as the wrong person signed off on that paperwork. There is documentation floating around has to how that 1.8 million is to be spent and most of that would go on wages to employ more training staff so that courses can go ahead. I am sure your group officer can supply you with a copy of the paperwork

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Last i heard was that DTEI (Dept. Transport Energy and Infrastructure) were against the change. Even if they were for it, wouldn't it involve a change to an Act of parliament, thus requiring going through state parliament. I agree it's stupid the 40km/hr wasn't 25km/hr to start with, but don't think the change will be something as simple as getting 'signed off', it's a bit more involved than that.

Or driver training - the one task we do everytime we go to a call, but have only a short course, which doesn't really cover everything it perhaps should.....

Pip

Agree 110% on the lack of detailed driver training.

Is the 'Drive Vehicles Under Operational Conditions' unit compulsory to drive CFS vehicles on the fireground, or is is still up to the Captain of an individual Brigade to have the final say?

So whats the difference in sending a page to members advising of the camera, and the camera's position being printed in the paper, or announced on various radio stations?

Pip

The TV and radio aren't government owned resources. Then again it prob only cost $0.0000001 to send out, so was insignificant, and may have got some people up that way to slow down last night. You're forgiven Mr Coro

Surely the false alarms at the Remand Centre are getting ridiculous. If smoking is banned from Government Buildings, why not the Remand Centre also?


MFS will soon be able to buy a new appliance with the cash they rake in from attending alarms at the Remand Centre.