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Country Fire Service / Re: CFS Station most in need or repair/replacement
« on: November 05, 2007, 09:42:22 PM »
Why then not give a Brigade with over 100 callouts and having members sent home because the 34 went with a full crew no way to get another 8 members out another unit.

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All Equipment discussion / Re: Boosters, Type 2 Pumpers and 34P's
« on: October 29, 2007, 04:30:01 PM »
would love to get a new truck  :lol: Region has told us we need it in our area as we have a lot of tanks in the Group that have that size just not sure where to place them.

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All Equipment discussion / Re: Boosters, Type 2 Pumpers and 34P's
« on: October 29, 2007, 10:26:11 AM »
We have been given 2 100mm hard suction with stortz fittings but have no where to put them on the truck, to long to fit with other hards suction hoses?  :?

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SA Firefighter General / Re: GRN RADIO;S
« on: October 14, 2007, 02:37:58 PM »
 laugh every time a single brigade goes to say an alarm, and the station calls them self "Blah Base".. When really they are "Blah Station".. (Until that incident escalates and the incident requires the opening of the Base).
 
 

I know when some brigades where thought the Progress Association and we are talking way back before the 1960s the Staton was called " Blah Base" as the station I am with was started in 1952 and I have found some of there reports.   Old habits are hard to get out off.
 

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SA Firefighter General / Re: GRN RADIO;S
« on: October 13, 2007, 03:52:11 PM »
So why did we get a blasting this week about needing more members to do GRN training as it is not included in Level 1?
We have had 8 members do level 1 in the past 10 months and Region is complaining they have not done the required GRN course as in level 1 they say is only communication not GRN? What are going to do to keep them happy?

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Incorrect rescue responses
« on: October 09, 2007, 12:26:28 PM »
Quote from: chook on October 08, 2007, 07:47:15 PM
When I contacted Adelaide fire, they said Lyrup was paged but didn't respond.
They then contacted Monash who could not get a crew, a member from Monash told me this. I thought Paringa would have been a better bet, but Monash was paged. Finally Berri SAMFS were paged, who responded. On my pager it says 73929(US)39324(LYRUP?). This is why in practice putting all of your eggs in one basket won't work. Finally I apologise to the Lyrup brigade(I didn't want to name brigades involved but you guys are too clever), who are a great bunch of guys and if your pagers didn't get the message that is a real problem that needs to be fixed. Again I didn't want to embarrass people or services, just to highlight that there are different issues in different parts of the state, so a one size fixes all approach wont work. cheers

I would have thought Paringa would have been the second call, they did get paged and respond then got stop call from Adelaida fire.Lyrup pagers did not receive 2 call outs that day not sure if they have had it looked into.

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ALL Rescue / Re: RCR Ages
« on: October 08, 2007, 01:23:49 PM »
Quote from: mack on October 08, 2007, 10:08:49 AM
Quote from: Zippy on October 08, 2007, 09:50:26 AM
12 to 16 cadets
16 above - Level 1
18 above - more training?

i believe you can do everthing except BA before turning 18. however not having BA accred excludes you from HAZMAT, CFB etc


I thought that if you do not have BA you can still respond to hazmat there would be jobs for them to do to help.

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Incorrect rescue responses
« on: October 08, 2007, 12:43:57 PM »
Cook my question still is who was the correct Fire Brigade that should have been responded as looking at the location on whereis.com they where the closest brigade.

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Incorrect rescue responses
« on: October 07, 2007, 11:38:42 PM »
Had a recent out of town job near a hamlet called Lyrup - day time page said cleanup only. For us it a 15 - 20 minute drive (if you don't take the ferry). Got there no fire cover, called up Adelaide fire who responded the next closest CFS brigade (which was not the closest resource),

Why was Lyrup not the closest resource? Who do you think should have responded?  Sounds like you came from Berri or Renmark. There pagers did not go off so how could they have responded. Well thats what I was told.

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SA Firefighter General / Re: 07/08 Fire Danger Season Dates
« on: October 05, 2007, 10:44:43 AM »
I agree in one way Pip but if you give the public to much to do in regards to phone things in they will not ring in when needed just in case there was something they did not see.
 We get responded a lot out of FDS as the land owner does not look after the burnoff, they just light up and off they go other important stuff to do as they say its only a small fire what harm can it do. Thats where the education is needed as you first stated.

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: October 04, 2007, 09:47:04 AM »
Good rumors made it sound as if it was in big trouble and that they might get blue green algy now with no current.

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: October 03, 2007, 10:46:24 PM »
16:29:28 03-10-07 MFS: INC # 56 - 03/10/07 16:27,RESPOND To,BARMERA CFS,BARMERA, MAP 0 0 0 ,,JETTY AT LAKE BONNY,39124*CFSRES

That gives you a lot of information. Wonder what it was?  Wonder if they can pump out of the lake if theres a fire? now that its closed off to the River

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Ammusing pager message.
« on: September 30, 2007, 03:02:39 PM »
Has ETSA been notifyed that the power is out at Alberton

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SA Firefighter General / Re: State CFS Talkgroups etc
« on: September 24, 2007, 08:05:32 PM »
Have had them sent away for repairs they sent them back they worked for a few weeks now they have slowly stoped working again all with different problems

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SA Firefighter General / Re: State CFS Talkgroups etc
« on: September 24, 2007, 02:34:38 PM »
Quote from: Dezza on September 24, 2007, 12:12:40 PM
you do have the option of:  example:

OAKB: MANUAL TURNOUT RESPOND STATION CFSRES...at the press of a button.  but as soon as you press it, let adelaide fire know of the incident, to properly get it put into the system.

As for Info messages, three good methods:  Link Email, Link Website, Airsource.

Only if your Alpha Decoder box is working. Our Group will not allow us to get them fixed we have 5 out of the whole group not working

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Country Fire Service / Re: cfs volunteers
« on: September 21, 2007, 07:17:19 PM »
You can get some Travel or Motor Vehicle Allowance for some activity's best way is to look in the Volunteer Finance Manual Version 6 June 2007 section 2.2, 2.3 it may be what you are after. But as they say its being reviewed again as always.

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Country Fire Service / Re: cfs volunteers
« on: September 21, 2007, 11:09:53 AM »
Well in the folder that was handed out at our last Group meeting from Region the answer is no if you are attending a callout to your normal Brigade, and that is what the BSO and Richard Wald also said at the meeting. So have a look in the Finance Manual that should be at your station

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Country Fire Service / Re: cfs volunteers
« on: September 20, 2007, 04:31:24 PM »
a quick answer is no

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Ammusing pager message.
« on: September 19, 2007, 11:25:48 AM »
1924305 10:42:59 19-09-07 THE BERRI AMBULANCE STATION HAS BEEN FULLY DECONTANIMATED FROM JOHN BARRETT SAAS


So I wonder what happened  :?

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Ammusing pager message.
« on: September 09, 2007, 05:10:57 PM »
That mob are taking the p*** out of her, was told she was in labour when they had a callout yesterday and she complained that she missed the truck, they received a phone call from her asking them to pick her up.

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Country Fire Service / Re: CFS Rope Rescue brigades
« on: September 06, 2007, 08:16:30 PM »
for us sill Billy's what is USAR ????????? :?

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All Equipment discussion / Re: Ordering of PBI Gold
« on: September 03, 2007, 12:46:46 PM »
one of our members got there in 1 month another got his in 17 days  while another is still waiting after 16 months not sure how they run. Have heard a lot that got it through the grant thing from the state  have not received them as they have lost there orders????? not sure how true that statement is.

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SA Firefighter General / Seaford Responses
« on: September 01, 2007, 04:51:57 PM »
We have been responded to a rubbish fire and needed tow brigads as we have no water close by and the rubbish pile was in a old dump did not know this until we got there.

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Country Fire Service / Re: CFS Station most in need or repair/replacement
« on: August 27, 2007, 11:29:21 AM »

[/quote]yes apparently cfs stations ln chaffey group should be next so i have heard from adelaide :-o
[/quote]

Thanks for that info Hope it come up soon there is a few stations in need of repair or replace

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: August 15, 2007, 10:54:36 PM »
Quote from: Jimmy_91 on August 15, 2007, 11:24:42 AM
Quote from: SA Firey on August 15, 2007, 11:11:52 AM
1918616 18:40:26 14-08-07 MFS: INC # 48 - 14/08/07 18:40,RESPOND Vehicle Fire,STURT HWY,RENMARK, MAP 0 0 0 ,,BETWEEN NEDS CORNER AND THE ARIEL - 40 KMS OUT,618*CFSRES: MFS Renmark Response


1919310 18:46:07 14-08-07 MFS: INC # 48 - 14/08/07 18:40,RESPOND Vehicle Fire,STURT HWY,RENMARK, MAP 0 0 0 ,,BETWEEN NEDS CORNER AND THE AERIAL CFSRES 14/08/2007 6:45:54 PM CFS Paringa Response

Also interesting that MFS did not page the additional information of being 40KMS out to Paringa Brigade whereas it was given to Renmark MFS :evil:

Plus they were responded almost 5 minutes later

It is also interesting to note that there were no numbers for the brigade code at the end of the page. :? :?


Also interesting that it took 3 messages to get the right message through

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