SA Firefighter

First Fire = Small pine slash fire out back of Glencoe Forestry Nursery already out on our trucks arrival because of bomber and Forestry SA fire crews

Second MVA=Apple truck rollover

Hiya everyone now i know this thread has been dead since the 2nd or 3rd week of December 2005 so it's best we revive it 

Today the 04/01/2006 received a phone call regarding my scanner programming service i have running for South East Scanner Users being it was my first customer i wasn't sure what kinda scanner he wanted programmed to listen to the GRN

SO i gathered all my notes and instructions together and waited for his arrival to drop off the scanner programming after this guy arrived it turns out he had the newer trunk tracker 3 scanner UBCT8 so all i have to do now is reprogram it with SAGRN frequencies/TG's for him to listen to

I'm hoping this customer is a sign of things to come for my business... so if any of you vollies who are members of the South East CFS brigades want your scanners programmed to trunk the GRN I'll be more than happy to do it for you

Wether it involves me coming to your home,property or worksite or you dropping the scanner off at my home for programming it doesnt bother me at all im gonna make sure you enjoy scanner listening without the interference of SAPOL digital

My home number if you want to contact me about this is: 08 87 393275

You hit the nail on the head Mike and being that next month is likely to be the deadly bushfire month for Gambier & Wattle Range Divisions i'd rather stay at home and defend the house whilst my mom goes out

Because there arent many people in town who would stay and defend their homes during a bushfire as i've seen on the Ash Wednesday video they were all at the pub

Plus it would be the perfect chance to utilize my Emergency Response Warden training that i did in 2005 as well as test out my forward command skills 

If the Country Fire Service want the new bushfire warnings system to be broadcasted on all media service outlets why not do it on AM & UHF CB radio bands as most landowners,private forestry contractors & normal people in country South Australia especially the South East carry UHF or 27MHz CB radios in their vehicles 

According to the bushfire prevention & safety phamplets it says that bushfire and bushfire weather warnings are broadcasted on UHF CB Radio but i have never heard anything of the sort on UHF Channel 5

It would be good to hear a bushfire warning placed over UHF CB 

Once again the Wattle Range & Mount Gamber CFS Divisions escaped the wrath of today's bushfire weather despite having strong winds 

However we might not be so lucky during this evening because of these paging messages i found on the paging website 

1905914 16:40:52 27-12-05 27/12/2005 4:40:40 PM SHQ: BE ADVICED: SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CURRENT FOR AD, MLR, NWP, FLI, WC, EEP, LEP, YP, MN, KI, RIV, MUR, USE, LSE. GUSTS OF 100KPH REPORTED. SHQ.

1909219 18:16:48 27-12-05 CFSR5: BOM advice severe thunderstorm warning for the evening 27/12/05. Wind gusts over 90kph may occur. 27/12/2005 6:16:26 PM

I wish it was that easy TILLERMAN but our Captain takes his job a little bit too seriously if you know what i mean 

Trying to argue with him is like arguing with a brickwall you wont win   

If only we had a captain who would take his job seriously but in a relaxed way  ..... then again the election is in a few months maybe someone who knows how to take his job seriously but knows how to have a laugh every so often might come along and take over from our  current captain 

I see the rule as silly matt because we only have 7 active members and if the brigade started excluding members from the same family from going on the truck at the same time then our brigade wont have a crew to roll 

Sorry about the statement of hoping there isnt any rain tomorrow it because we've had enough rain already but no fire is gonna take my home or town as ill be standing in it's way with a fire hose

Being that my mum and i are in the same household we have to take in turns of responding to call outs after lessons were learnt from the Linton bushfires in Victoria   

So tomorrow im gonna let my mum respond to all fires that Kalangadoo gets called to but if theres a shortage of crew all that needs to be done just to get my attention and response is setting the station siren off

It seems the Lower South East escaped the wrath of this bushfire weather relatively unscathed despite having very high winds around 16:30-17:00pm and it seems that Kalangadoo,Nangwarry & Mount McIntyre brigades are the only ones to have been to paged for a smoke sighting

These 2 response messages were sent at 17:33&17:37pm after the smoke
sighting was phoned in (note: these are off the paging site)

1909366 17:33:03 23-12-05 SHQ: *CFSRES: KALANGADOO, NANGWARY, MT MCINTYRE RESPOND SMOKE SIGHTING GRID REFERANCE 800500 NORTH OF KALANGADOO - BOMBERS ATTENDING ALSO > 23/12/2005 17:32:54

1913738 17:37:11 23-12-05 CFSR5: CFSRES* BOMBERS & AAS RESPOND to smoke sighting LSE MAP17 800 500. 23/12/2005 5:37:09 PM

On our arrival to the scene it turned out to be raised dust 

I have found out that between my parents and myself all three of us have clocked up a total for 43 years service with the SA Country Fire Service and yet the "brown noser" members of our brigade dont seem to respect me or my family's 43 year milestone, as im still getting treated as a piece of trash being the youngest member to have clocked 10 years has annoyed these bad apple members

If the brigade does fold it will recover and ill make sure that happens as i will do everything possible

That seems like a good idea matt but it's gonna take some time as our brigade has almost collapsed if you know what i mean 

I can draw comparison between my brigade and WWE Raw when Raw was failing the problem was found to be their General Manager so after he was sacked Monday night Raw started to get back up on it's feet even though it didnt have a permanent GM

The only difference is that our brigade is loosing members because of medical conditions but at the same time not gaining any new recruits because the "Brown Nosers" think they can run the brigade all by themself without volunteers who go by the book 

Im one of the only members aside from my mum in the Kalangadoo brigade who actually follow the book the way it's supposed to be followed which is very sad in a way 

Please dont scorn me for saying this 

thanks for the tip cybercitizen oh yeah can you tell me where i can locate emergency 3 computer game