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Nothing wrong with upgrading and also two reasons for it are A) The crews are in PBI, and at a going job that's hard work, and B)fresh resources to give the crews a break and also share the workload around the job makes sense to me.

We've said it before and we will say it again, better to have resources responding than to wait till it hits the fan, and a STOP CALL never hurt anyone.

If it is an AFAC module and nationally recognised cant see why they wouldn't, however it would be part of the recruit course I would think.

Generic perhaps?  These are all spare cars that get used anywhere and everywhere

.....mostly staffed by managers and overtime...another knee-jerk reaction to get response times down after realizing that in the last 12 months SAAS has gone from being the best performing service in the country to near on the worst!!

Goes to show that Kevin is not so good at fudging figures as he thought.

Even DR9 got a run today

1800166   14:00:20 19-12-10 MFS: *CFSRES INC071 19/12/10 13:59,RESPOND DOMESTIC FIRE,7 PIONEER AV,PORT ELLIOT MAP 311 E 3 TG138,CALL FROM NEIGHBOUR,PTEL00 MDDL00 GAW359
MFS Gawler GAW359

Fire would probably be out by the time they got there!

I'll bet they looked at that and said WTF

The day that CFS order a Bronto or Skyjet then we know they are getting serious, until then we will have to put up with the standard line it's not standard stowage when we want to put gear on our appliances to make our job easier.

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This round of flooding, could have easily been handled as good as a bush fire.

oh dear God no...please don't let us accept that level of management....

HA i know what your suggesting....Yes Bushfires too have failed management

And recently!

I stand to be corrected, but I didn't see SES at Stockport until Wednesday morning. Light strike team arrived as the Gilbert river broke, but before that it was Wakefield Plains CFS who were doing the work with citizens. Same thing occurred a couple of months ago - no SES to be seen until after the event

SES Special Operations Team were in Stockport on Tuesday night, assisting with the rescue of a reported disabled person in a wheelchair stuck in a flooded property.

I have to say that I have never seen the water in the Main street at waist level before and the Gilbert was running very high, as the Light Group Car lost the headlights underwater earlier.

Light River was roaring under the Gawler to Two Wells Rd with a foot to spare under the bridge.

1925583   06:11:07 08-12-10 Category 3
SAAS Unit Aldinga

1925581   06:23:56 08-12-10 Category 1 / 2 URGMSG
SAAS Unit O'Halloran Hill

Since midnight, these cat 1,2,3's have been the messages sent to every metro unit via online paging website. Is it an error or are SAAS considering of changing back to cat 1,2,3's

The reason for these responses was that the SAAS CAD system was down and the operators were doing everything manually....including telling crews to talk slowly

At dicatation speed of course

SACFS crews responded to a reported B Double down an embankment at Eyre Highway, 45kms west of Penong early this morning.

The B-Double semi trailer has been identified as carrying dangerous goods and has been upgraded to a Major Hazmat Incident.

Hazmat crews are being requested for a 2-3 day deployment from all over the state yet to be confirmed when attending.

Currently Ceduna and Penong and multiple groups on scene.

State Hazmat Pod left this morning.

1908991 15:19:24 04-12-10 MFS: *CFSRES INC076 04/12/10 15:18,RESPOND GRASS FIRE,GURR RD,SCOTT CREEK MAP 168 M 11 TG136,SMOKE SIGHTING FROM LOFTY TOWER, SMOKE B,UILDING,BRAD42 SAIR55 BRAD00 IRBK00 MYLR00
CFS Lofty Group Officers Response


Nice to see the tower is working......

There were 3 rostered today and this was the first sighting with a confirmed fire, which was in Mt Bold, lucky it didn't take off  

If you listen to the Retrieval Teams talkgroup CH12 TGID 42512 you will hear the comms between Medstar Base and Comms.

SOT is also SO74 day shift

There is also a Medstar 201

Either way the government has got a real cheap emergency service, provided by volunteers yet we scream for more funding and we have to fight for it!!!

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/dispute-leaves-communities-without-fire-stations/story-e6frea83-1225961133374

THREE South Australian communities will be at higher risk of bushfire danger because a dispute between the Government and a contractor has stalled the building of new fire stations.
State Country Fire Service stations in Wilmington, Balaklava and Hamley Bridge were all demolished earlier this year on the promise they would be rebuilt before this year's fire season.

But a dispute between the South Australian Fire and Emergency Services Commission and contractor Unique Building has stopped work on the stations for the past six weeks.

Wilmington is near Mt Remarkable, which is a high-risk fire area, and Balaklava and Hamley Bridge are both in the Mid North.

Wilmington CFS captain Geoff Hitch said the dispute meant the high-risk fire area would be without a fire station for what was expected to be the worst fire season in 20 years. The brigade had been forced to store trucks and equipment in private residences of members.

"I don't care what the fight is about, I just want them to finish the station - they can't just leave it half finished," he said.

"It is definitely going to slow our response time down because we have got gear all over the place."

Mr Hitch said he was concerned that a serious fire in the high-risk area could have fatal consequences if there was no centralised station.

"If our response is slow it gives a fire more chance to get ahead of us, so who knows what that could do," he said.

Opposition finance spokesman Rob Lucas said the dispute could place country communities at risk if there was a major summer fire.

He said correspondence between SAFECOM and the builder showed the dispute was regarding non-performance under the terms of the contract. The organisation was seeking repayment of $740,000 of a $1.5 million payment made in June.

"The letter claims that Unique has failed to comply with the above contract requirement to date and immediate action is required by Unique for more than 50 separate items," Mr Lucas said. "The minister and SAFECOM must now take urgent action to ensure the CFS stations are built as soon as possible."

Emergency Services Minister Michael Wright said the Government would direct SAFECOM to seek an alternative builder.

"The conduct of this company has been completely unacceptable," he said.

"A number of meetings have been held with the company concerned, and we'll be requesting an explanation as to why their contract should not be cancelled."