SA Firefighter

I agree that only one appliance should be sent to MFS area. As per SOP 7.1 the CFS is complimentary to SAMFS response so it doesn't matter if you never go.

Which 401 are you talking about? Not the same one i know.

Anyway back to Oakden, its clearly time for them to get a Tiller.

Not that it matters that much but an interesting thing to note is that most Vollies in the urban area wouldn't leave work to go to calls as not many work near their station, they would generally be shift workers at home or unemployed or self employed i would think. This is why some urban brigades struggle during the day, because everyone leaves the area to go to work elsewhere.

I am surprised more retained aren't used for COQ, Kapunda and Tanunda aren't that far away. Considering Nuri went to the Hazmat.

A good point here is making sure that the appliance attending the "job" has the capabilities to replace the one leaving. It's just a pity that no consideration is given to supporting MFS when new appliances are allocated. The Govt should put in a bit of cash for urban interface brigades especially in this day and age of Terrorist threats etc. Plenty of money has been poured into USAR, but no ones gonna be useing their USAR gear until the fire is out. Like James Belair should really still have a pump purely for the fact that you are so close to town.

I mean imagine if the Westpac building got blown up or something and needed say 2 4th alarms worth and they say Belair when you get here relay 4 lines of 64 from light square down to the scene..... "Ah sorry you will have to get a pumper to do that".... oh look the next 2 trucks coming in are tea tree gully and Athelstone..... makes life a bit hard really.

Probably another good reason why the equipment and appliances should be looked at from a state point of veiw rather than a brigades specific area.... Eg Belair should probably have a pumper again due to their close proximity to the city and the easily stretched resources of the MFS.

Yes i did that, although i knew they have to take tranfers you dont want to go in there being a pain in the rear and i had a choice of 2 houses in different brigades.... I should have seen who could come up with the best deal like a footy contract - front reserved carpark, new gear, drive every call, free drinks from the coke machine haha

Some brigades recruitment strategy is to induct more members into the "Boys Club Hall of Fame"

Oh well....

Jeff i think most brigades "boys clubs" as you call them are actually the people in the brigade that want to work as a team and are generally the majority and as we know the majority will always rule. Probably best to work with the majority than to fight them with your own agenda.

One would assume that the call came into adelaide fire and a sturt group member was in comms OR the call came in and AF called the sturt group alerts to find out if they had a ring cutter and they said we don't have one send 409.

Dezza how many people have you met from HQ?

Did somebody say that tatra thing is crank, no way, i don't think you people understand the word crank... maybe if it was an FDNY tiller.

The type 2 is good for the rescue, it just needs to be setup at the time of manufacture not afterwards. Probably the biggest trouble is having it as a pumper as well, then you are trying to fit an urban stowage kit and a full rescue kit, if all these brigades had a 34P to back them up then that would take some of the pressure off as far as hose and maybe some other small gear etc.

Ok well anyone that responds with MFS or has boosters in thier area with the 140mm fittings.