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General Discussion => Incident Operations => Topic started by: tft on January 31, 2008, 06:27:38 AM
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From Adelaide Now
A HOUSE fire in the State's south-east destroyed a township property last night, causing an estimated $200,000 damage.
About 40 firefighters were sent to the Kalangadoo home after a triple-0 call alerted the CFS at 8.40pm.
The house is understood to be within the township and the occupants were not inside. No injuries have been reported or damage to neighbouring properties.
Fire cause investigators will arrive this morning to determine the cause of the blaze.
Is this Robert34 patch??
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I think so - now let's see if I had this right, one truck broke down and couldn't get water out of their hoses and another one got bogged on the front lawn of the house. Sounds like a fun night all round for everyone. Poor buggers though!
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Is this Robert34 patch??
ABSOLUTELY :-D
MFS: MFS *CFSRES INC042 30/01/08 20:50,RESPOND DOMESTIC FIRE,KALANGADOO ,KALANGADOO MAP 0 0 0 TG231,RACECOURSE RD,BACKING UP OTHER CREWS,TRPN00 CFS Gambier Group Officers Response
1909267 20:50:46 30-01-08 MFS: MFS *CFSRES INC042 30/01/08 20:50,RESPOND DOMESTIC FIRE,KALANGADOO ,KALANGADOO MAP 0 0 0 TG231,RACECOURSE RD,BACKING UP OTHER CREWS,TRPN00 CFS Tarpeena Response
20:41:56 30-01-08 MFS: MFS *CFSRES INC042 30/01/08 20:41,RESPOND DOMESTIC FIRE,KALANGADOO CFS,KALANGADOO MAP 0 0 0 TG231,RACECOURSE RD,PROPERTY OF MONAHANS,KALA00 PENO19 NANG00 CFS Wattle Range Group Officers Response
1909372 20:41:54 30-01-08 MFS: MFS *CFSRES INC042 30/01/08 20:41,RESPOND DOMESTIC FIRE,KALANGADOO CFS,KALANGADOO MAP 0 0 0 TG231,RACECOURSE RD,PROPERTY OF MONAHANS,KALA00 PENO19 NANG00 CFS Nangwarry Response
1909359 20:41:50 30-01-08 MFS: MFS *CFSRES INC042 30/01/08 20:41,RESPOND DOMESTIC FIRE,KALANGADOO CFS,KALANGADOO MAP 0 0 0 TG231,RACECOURSE RD,PROPERTY OF MONAHANS,KALA00 PENO19 NANG00 CFS Wattle Range Group Officers Response
1909373 20:41:48 30-01-08 MFS: MFS *CFSRES INC042 30/01/08 20:41,RESPOND DOMESTIC FIRE,KALANGADOO CFS,KALANGADOO MAP 0 0 0 TG231,RACECOURSE RD,PROPERTY OF MONAHANS,KALA00 PENO19 NANG00 CFS Penola Response
1909359 20:41:41 30-01-08 DOO MAP 0 0 0 TG231,RACECOURSE RD,PROPERTY OF MONAHANS,KALA00 PENO19 NANG00 CFS Wattle Range Group Officers Response
1909366 20:41:39 30-01-08 MFS: MFS *CFSRES INC042 30/01/08 20:41,RESPOND DOMESTIC FIRE,KALANGADOO CFS,KALANGADOO MAP 0 0 0 TG231,RACECOURSE RD,PROPERTY OF MONAHANS,KALA00 PENO19 NANG00 CFS Kalangadoo Response
1909359 20:41:39 30-01-08 MFS: MFS *CFSRES INC042 30/01/08 20:41,RESPOND DOMESTIC FIRE,KALANGADOO CFS,KALANGA CFS Wattle Range Group Officers Response
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the doo is having a busy year!
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Must have been a big house with the number of applainces that where sent...
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Well it's totally gone anyway not that big but I'm guessing water was the requirement. And they timed it right too as they were planning on having a nice quiet social bbq last night and when the pagers go off I bet they thought someone was pulling their leg to begin with :-D - That will teach them to think they can have a social life as well
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http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23136426-2682,00.html
A HOUSE fire in the State's south-east destroyed a township property last night, causing an estimated $200,000 damage.
About 40 firefighters were sent to the Kalangadoo home after a triple-0 call alerted the CFS at 8.40pm.
The house is understood to be within the township and the occupants were not inside. No injuries have been reported or damage to neighbouring properties.
Fire cause investigators will arrive this morning to determine the cause of the blaze.
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Thanks for repeating that.. ^^
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I think so - now let's see if I had this right, one truck broke down and couldn't get water out of their hoses and another one got bogged on the front lawn of the house. Sounds like a fun night all round for everyone. Poor buggers though!
Ok Ok let me clarify which truck got bogged and which one broke down even though i missed out by a few minutes due to being around my parents house but managed to listen on their scanner what was happening
Kalangadoo 34- Hoses wouldnt work so the truck had to be removed from fire ground for the problem to be fixed
Nangwarry 34- Due to the front lawn being soggy the appliance got bogged so Tarpeena 34 and Millicent Rescue were paged to provide water relay to Nangwarry appliance
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Settle petal :-)
I already knew which truck did what was just adding to the discussion to make it interesting (wasn't it the plug or something that caused the water problem :?)though I did think it might have been the sand that bogged Nanga's truck after I was out there taking pics this morning, I'd forgotten how sandy it can get in area's around there. Not much left of it poor bugger! :-(
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Dunno what was the cause as we never had any problems with the hoses last year at that RCR last year they worked perfectly fine so maybe its time for the truck to be serviced :-)
Just to add it turns out the cause of the fire was a laptop and battery which was left on standby mode while the occupant wasnt home so SAPOL fire cause investigators are gonna ring the computer company to find out if the laptop was put on faulty recall notice
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Primer not working??? replace the diaphram ;)
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The 'Doo blew a 1/2" plug out the back of their pump, so I believe it looked more like a fountain for a little while. They had it fixed pretty smartly though.
I'm not entirely sure what happened to the Glencoe truck - initial report said something like their pump wouldn't go, but they seemed to be operational by the time we got there.
It looked like the front lawn had been watered for a good week or so by a small travelling irrigator. Very very soft sand. Nangwarry was a good anchor!
The extra appliances were brought in to cart water (most trucks returned to the 'doo for water, roughly 8km round trip?), and for BA. For a while there, it looked like the whole group might end up crashing the 'doo's cosy bbq. Not enough chops though.
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And the way I hear it they didn't want to share and were seen quickly scoffing down all remaining food on the short drive to the scene anyway :-D
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Boy the call rate for the DOO will be high at this rate.....
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Better get them a pumper.
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or better a MFS Retained station, get a job with them and your set robert ;)
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The CFS might as well build a 2 bay station for Kalangadoo then give us a 34P for structual fires and a Light Rural Appliance for responding to grass fires :-D
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I thought a bronto was on order for you :wink:
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Nah a 34P would be a good idea :-)
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The doo has a two bay station just remove the trailer pump and put in a Q/A
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lol.... yep, so much action down the doo. :roll:
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Its been pretty quiet here as we havent had any fire calls since that tree on powerline call out early January and plus its the first actual structual fire we've had for donkeys ages in Kalangadoo
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And will probably be the last one for 10 years too.
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Remember murphys law... when you say something isnt gonna happen it will happen :wink:
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or better a MFS Retained station, get a job with them and your set robert ;)
Better watch out, if MFS find out you've got houses down there they'll want to put a full time station in there next!
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We got a mill down this way which is the main hazard so yeah we better watch out cause MFS might wanna put a Satellite Station here :-)
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Wow who would think that the doo township could have so much talking going on about it???I may have to call a friend in TV and see if we could make a new TV show callED " WELCOME TO THE DOO" BUT WOULD IT BE AS GOOD AS A COUNTRY PRACTICE AND WHO WILL PLAY,bob,fRANK COOKIE AND MRS WATSON.....
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We got a mill down this way which is the main hazard so yeah we better watch out cause MFS might wanna put a Satellite Station here :-)
Rob i dearly hope that is a sarcastic comment.