SA Firefighter

There are a number of SES units trained in vertical rescue, and STAR Force still have a role there.

An incident at Glenelg last week had MFS, SES and SAAS SOT attend as well as Medstar.

The patient had to be rescued off the roof of a first floor building, and this was achieved with the use of the Bronto and a Stokes litter with an SOT  Paramedic.

Noarlunga,Tea Tree Gully SES are Vertical Rescue for Metro Area

More info can be found here on which units do Vertical Rescue   http://www.ses.sa.gov.au/site/about_us/ses_units.jsp#special ops

MFS: *CFSRES INC053 30/07/10 19:19,RESPOND Flooding/Salvage,43 HAMPSHIRE ST,MANSFIELD PARK MAP93 B 13 TG182,WATER MAIN HAS BURST. CAR IN THE HOLE,1 X PERSON TRAPPED CAR ON ITS SIDE,PPT020 APK361 WDV249 MFS Woodville 249

Now that's a freak accident

Did anyone see what happened to the last tanker they tested

MFS: *CFSRES INC036 21/07/10 15:11,RESPOND ALARM 013/137,SAMFS,HEADQUARTERS,93 WAKEFIELD ST,ADELAIDE MAP 4 D 10 TG182,ASE DEVICE 1437,SPKL #1 SV S/W CORNER OF PREMISES,AD2011 ADL201

that would have to be the fastest arrival on site to a job in history

Smoke detector activated due to smoke from BA Training Area

1930428 19:23:55 28-05-10 MFS: *CFSRES INC069 28/05/10 19:23,RESPOND Vehicle Fire,CNR BRIAN RD & SCARBOROUGH WA?,L?NS?AL? M?P ?76 MFS Adelaide Station Broadcast

Garbled message this is what it was

MFS: *CFSRES INC069 28/05/10 19:23,RESPOND Vehicle Fire,CNR BRIAN RD & SCARBOROUGH WAY,LONSDALE MAP 176 C 9 TG182,2ND ALARM TRUCK FIRE,PRIORITY TWO PER D/O STEELE,ADL206 MFS Adelaide 206

$1 million dollars damage

A mate of mine was in a brigade in a fairly well known grape growing district, one job he told me about was at a call to a fire alarm at the local hospital.

He was the only one to respond to the station so he rang the Group Officer to confirm that another brigade was being responded. The Group Officer's response was to tell him to take a drive in his own vehicle out to the job and reset the panel. This was when my mate was new to the CFS and didn't know any better. Scary to think that this was only a year or so ago.

Thankfully there has been a significant change in personnel in that Group and things are starting to slowly improve.

It's interesting as another story told from up that very region, is a fixed alarm goes off and the primary brigade is short on crew, whereas the brigade they defaulted to had a full compliment of BA operators and crew, get told to respond to the station to do the radio while they go to the job with less crew than them

Correct is fully crewed by SAMFS, and crews are responded to the Gallantry from Largs North station and the Duty Marine Master from Port Adelaide.   

Robert if you re-read my post more carefully, ive said one appliance for tree downs is fine...

But one truck for a housefire or a fire alarm is not acceptable per CFS SOPs, so why is it allowed to continue. There not one off occurences, hardly a day goes by without a response to something somewhere not meeting SOP.

Im with you on this Alex, not to mention the amount of groups that send command cars to alarm calls, tree fires etc, so an appliance doesn't have to respond

The minimum response is a 2.4 appliance with a minimum of 3 crew as per OMG 45

The Air Tractors have proven to be more cost effective as fire bombing aircraft, and the Erickson Skycranes have logistical issues, such as a fuel tanker having to follow them where they are deployed. Next problem for the Aircranes is locating suitable water supply to provide a capability for a sustained bombing run @ 9000 litres a drop. 

Currently the bombers have access to over 200 airfields across the state so hangar space isn't really an issue, whereas an operating cost of $12,000 an hour for the Aircrane is.

Stateline had a very interesting segment on the Bomber crews this evening on ABC.

They also told us what all of us has been saying for years, that they could buy 30 Air Tractors to what one Erickson Skycrane costs.

Should be able to view it here when they upload the program http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2010/04/30/2887542.htm

What a joke, these pagers are such a piece of craap and then theres a note in the box to tell you if you damage the screen it will be billed back to the brigade!
Cant wait till they bring back hand pumps!

Next will be two cans and a piece of string for Alerts

There's an appliance under all that striping somewhere

does any one have photos of the pagers??

Photo can be found in this edition of Infralog http://sacfs.org/publications/Infralog_4_Dec2009.pdf