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Next question, who has the best looking largest CFS station as Salisbury's looks horrible as its an old crash repair place. Sort of fits right in with the whole northern pay out thing.

Mate you're a tool you say Salisburys station looks horrible but in your next post you say it doesnt matter what they look like on the outside. Do you read your posts?

so what happens when you hit steel reo in concrete?

Lots of sparks?

Apparently it was petrol in the end.

back on the topic of the 34P,does anyone know what is the current status of Dalkeith's 34P is, anyone know when they will finally get this appliance?

Saw it today heading south on South Rd at Torrensville, so obviously still not in service?

Fireblade, do you know what will be happening with the 14 pump/rescue?

Wasnt the back going to be ripped off and the cab-chassis used for air-ops?

Is anyone from the SES able to tell me how a unit like Northern Districts, when they got busy yesterday seem to just let the calls back up and get to them when they can? Wouldnt it be more appropriate to pass them off to say the MFS or CFS or other SES units (if not busy themselves) to be done. How long would it have been before some of those jobs got done? Just curious if someone could enlighten me.
Thanks

Who ever gets there just get some decent photos! 

Whoops. A bit of a mis-match there 

SHQ: *CFSRES: CUMMINS & PENOLA RESPOND MVA FARM BEACH RD, WANGARY. NEAR FARM BEACH TURNOFF. 2 CARS > 27/04/2007 2:26:24 PM

Interesting article in todays Advertiser. I always thought it was Mt Bryan, not Mt Thomas? Never heard of that brigade 


Off-road training forced on CFS
April 23, 2007 02:15am

COUNTRY Fire Service volunteers are not given fundamental off-road driver training, despite fighting fires in challenging terrain, an investigation has found.

The service has been forced to introduce widespread training and sweeping safety measures after an accident which left one volunteer a quadriplegic.
SafeWorkSA served service chief officer Euan Ferguson with three binding Improvement Notices, under the Occupational Health Safety and Welfare Act.

That follows an investigation into an accident last November 29 when three service volunteers from the Mt Thomas brigade were mopping up at a Bundaleer fireground in the Mid North.

The truck rolled and the driver was thrown from the cabin. He is in the Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre adapting to life without the use of his arms and legs.

The subsequent SafeWorkSA investigation has led to orders that:

ALL drivers of CFS appliances are adequately trained to ensure they are equipped to drive CFS vehicles on the environment they are required to operate.

All CFS personnel involved in making command decisions in fireground operations receive training and instruction in risk assessments.

SEATBELTS are worn at all reasonable times.

CFS manager of strategic services, Mick Ayre, said the accident was "a very big tragedy" but, considering there were 16,000 volunteers, the number of casualties in the organisation was very low.

"We have a motto which is safety first, come home safe and we try to engender that in all volunteers," he said.

Despite this and the fact "our volunteers are working in paddocks and all sorts of topography", he said the issue of off-road training among 450 brigades, with 800 appliances, had not been addressed as an "oversight".

"One of the things we have not been good at doing, is we have never really addressed effectively the driving of 4WD trucks off road," Mr Ayre said.

Jamestown also received one on thursday(?). Not sure what it replaced.

good photos there,did CFS to any COQ so as to help the MFS

Yes
Happy Valley to 42 O'Halloran Hill
Stirling to 44 Glen Osmond
Tea Tree Gully initially to 30 then got a call then went on to 37 Prospect

and here is a page that i garauntee you will never see again... all due to the 3A factory fire


MFS: RESPOND To 16/04/07 14:29,SHEPHERDS HILL RD,EDEN HILLS, MAP 154 F 8 ,,STOBIE ALIGHT OPPOSITEASHMORE AV,DAILY INC. NO. 41,4624 321*CFSRES:

You would think that with all the resources tided up around the place the MFS response here wasnt warranted. Surely if this was a job in MFS area it would have only been a 1 appliance job anyway!