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General Discussion => Incident Operations => Topic started by: PF_ on January 03, 2006, 03:50:02 PM
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"It's your first fire kid, are you ready to break your cherry?"
What was your first fire?
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Grass fire approx 1 hectare, just me and the cap in 14.
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Reported as a shed fire but found shed, house, pickers quarters, car in carport filled up with fuel over seats and 1 inch deep on the floor, all on fire. A pay back on the owner. That was about 8 years ago
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First Job = MVA 2 persons trapped
First Fire = Car Fire.. Fully envolved.. (Not very exciting)
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First Job = MVA, Commodore Vs Offle truck (semi) - fatal
First Fire = Reed fire on the outskirts of town.
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First Job = MVA, Car + Trailer Lost Control Strong Winds. Trailer Ended Up Straddling The Guard Rail, One Wheel Either Side, Had To Use The Cut Off Saw To Remove The Rail.
First Fire = Grass Fire At A Vineyard, Mostly Blacking Out.
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First fire and job.
20Ha fire. Started as a dump fire, quickly spread to a running grass fire, jumped the road and burnt 20Ha of scrub just behind the township. Left school to attend. What an insight into the CFS. Trucks from everywhere, a bomber and command cars racing everywhere. Almost ten years ago. I guess first impressions do impress!!!
Adam.
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jeez, now i just feel boring- first job was a fixed alarm, first actual fire was a grass fire in the base of a quarry, just the reeds that tend to grow in the mud...
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Its all in the timing steve! Fixed Alarms have been the first call for many of our members....
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One day that fixed alarm will turn out to be a fire.
Still waiting to have any first call out here (as I said in another place am doing level 1 this weekend and next)
I wonder what it will be...
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cat up a tree !
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First Job = Funnily enough Animal Rescue Cat up Tree
First Fire = Bathroom Fan Fire :0
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I wonder what it will be...
One Of The Bridages Members First Job Was A Sh!t Job. Thats The Truth, Compost & Hay Fire.
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First job: Removing a large deceased person from the local Lions Park, in the process the persons hand came out from under the sheet and fell on mine, being only just 16 at the time i stiil haven't forgotten that call and thats nearly 10 years ago. :-o :oops:
As for first fire i can't remember so it musn't have been much!! :-)
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all about picking the appropriate crew mundcfs - not too sure id let a 16 y.o. anywhere near a dead body... especially not just to move it.
first call and fire = small grassie.. mostly mop-up as we were beatent there by the primary CFS and MFS - time for some knapsack work.
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First Fire = Small pine slash fire out back of Glencoe Forestry Nursery already out on our trucks arrival because of bomber and Forestry SA fire crews
Second MVA=Apple truck rollover
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Not sure I remember, but I certainly one way back in the early days that I thought would be nothing - I was actually there for quite some time before I realised that the fire in front of me (it WAS dark and a long way off the road) was a fully involved structure fire. So I guess the first few I'd been to hadn't been much. I was in so much shock I had NO IDEA what to do. One of the lieutenants pulled me to the side and asked me if I was drunk!!!
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Yeah kat i know what you mean but at the time of call the person wasn't deceased and the patient being large all crew at the scene were needed to carry the person out. But as always if you don't try you don't know and I've definitely suffered no ill effects (I THINK)lol :-D.
But definitely agree that young F.F shouldn't be exposed unless absolutely necessary!!!
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I wasnt exposed to my first big fire until i was 16 1/2-17 and it was a scrub fire at the Furner Quarry of course this fire was going whilst i was at my 2nd Industrial fire in Nangwarry
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Yeah kat i know what you mean but at the time of call the person wasn't deceased and the patient being large all crew at the scene were needed to carry the person out. But as always if you don't try you don't know and I've definitely suffered no ill effects (I THINK)lol :-D.
But definitely agree that young F.F shouldn't be exposed unless absolutely necessary!!!
Sorry kat got mixed up with the names my last post was meant to be directed to medevac!! :oops: :oops:
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First incident attended was a fire alarm (ah those were the days, you could set your watch by the toast burning)
First going was was a fully involved structure fire - mmmmm very stressful, trying to sink the standpipe when it and I had only been introduced two weeks before!!!
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first fire: house fire going end to end 1x fatel long night
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First fire was a house fire with a difference:
Caller told us house was fully engulfed but he was in the house??!!
Upon arrival found one house, fully engulfed, with railway sleepers against side of wall and empty jerry can in front yard.....
even at 16 I could tell something was NOT right!!
Morgan
ex CFS: Ardrossan Brigade
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Large scrub fire week before ash wednesday that took days to mop up,second job was a very large fire that went on for weeks.. ASH WEDNESDAY..............
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Completed BFF1 so now I am an official firefighter :-)
Now have to wait until I get a pager and see what my first call out and ifre will be.
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First fire, as a cadet with Williamstown CFS, 23 years ago. Domestic fire in the middle of the night at our house (a seperate rumpus room, fully envolved and completely destroyed). I was only 13, scared the funk out of me and will never ever forget it. Same summer as Ash Wed.
Second fire, as a young FF at 16, mop up after a scrub fire near Williamstown.
20 years later, returned to CFS duties as an adult, recently completed BFF1. First incident - a non event fixed alarm. Still waiting for my first real job. Getting plenty of radio room experience tho!
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So I guess my first call out is a stop call. Didnt even get on the truck before the stop call came....
Originally called out to help Williamstown with a grass fire, but stopped about 2 minutes after recieving the page.
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AWWWW, I reckon you have to at least get on the truck for it to count! :wink:
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First Fire: Fully involved hay truck
First Grassie: 25 hectares, extreme day
First Forest: Interesting lightning strike burned in to a peat area
First Ambo (yep 12 years vollie Ambo Officer as well): Elderly gent, stroke, head first in his dinner plate
Ah, it's a good life
Dave
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So I guess my first call out is a stop call. Didnt even get on the truck before the stop call came....
Originally called out to help Williamstown with a grass fire, but stopped about 2 minutes after recieving the page.
PF you should transfer to Dalkeith or Salisbury you'd probably rack up your first hundred fires before you get your first one with your brigade :wink: :-D
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lol from what i have heard he is more likely to rack up a hundred stop calls with one of the forementioned brigades...
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Actually, technically my first 'call out" was the mcLoeds Daughters thing.
Surely there has to be one some time, if not then I just have to borrow someone's lighter. Then there will be a fire! :-D
:roll: :-P
joke!
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hmmm... well mcleods daughters would be an 'other activity' not an incident...
but yeah, a stop call is a callout, just a cr@p one.
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lol from what i have heard he is more likely to rack up a hundred stop calls with one of the forementioned brigades...
maybe dalkeith
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Can't remember my first fire...have had some bigger ones though..Tulka, Black Tuesday...the ones in between seem to be insignificant...
thankfully, only 1 MVA fatality..unfortunately, it was someone all the services knew...that included the undertaker...and they were a very big person..needed 8 to get him out of car...
PF you will have many to remember...don't be too keen to get there..it could be a nasty experience first up!
the most important advice someone ever gave me (from Euan) was to take 5...it could save your life..
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First job: rubbish fire that turned out to be someone burning off. Didn't even put it out.
First fire: big filtered at Murray Bridge just before xmas last year. I was there on strike team. Good fire that one, she was crowning at about 15 -20 foot high flames.
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Dont need to go to Dalkieth to rack up stop calls, just got number 2 :|
MVA, we were priority two, got on the truck this time, but then they radioed in a stop call....
Surely there has to be something soon :-P
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don't worry dude, you'll get a call sooner or later. There was a guy in my brigade i heard didn't get his first call for 8 months after doing his level 1. We just had this drought where everyone used their brains or something and nothing happened for that long. be sure to let me know when you get your first call alright? then we can celebrate!
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Decided against going to an MVA today (filtered school tomorrow :x) Feel like I made a wrong decision, now I find out MFS are going to it as well, woulda been nice to see them at work...
Edit: Now I feel better, wouldnt have gone anyway, mum rang and said she's at station just helping the others with whatever they do at station, still woulda been good to hear radio talk etc.
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That will happen more than once in your CFS lifetime PF.... one of those hard descisions. But as we said in another topic.... there are some things that just have to come before CFS.
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haha, and school is one of them :-P
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was a fatal anyway... nobody likes going to them much.
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Yeah was talkin to mate of mine who's at Roseworthy said he heard on commercial radio that she died. Not good.
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Dont need to go to Dalkieth to rack up stop calls, just got number 2 :|
Make that 3!
Had a vehicle fire call but we couldnt get a driver so another brigade got the call. turns out it wasnt on fire so we didnt need to respond (as a driver was going to be sent over)
Are there any witch doctors here that can remove curses :-P
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My brigades activity level has been real low over the last few months due to lack of callouts
In the 10 years i've been with the Country Fire Service 7 years this december of active service i have been to 2 haystack fires one of them occuring last year just outside of Nangwarry but it was a hay truck fire where the hay caught alight and not the truck
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can't remember first fire, first job was an mva though. Been in the job only a couple of weeks at the time though. A guy was working on his car when the jack had given way and his wife found him a few hours later when she went to tell him dinner was ready, he was under the car and not going anywhere.. interesting first up job!
RCR's - Had a bunch of doozies, many of semi prangs on the freeway especially rollovers....
HAZMAT's - most memorable was probably going by Rescue 51 to KI last year.
Structure Fire - Mitcham shopping centre (4th Alarm), Stonyfell Shopping Centre (2nd alarm)
Scrub - Jan 11, various other strike teams.
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Which brigade are you from to be HAZMAT and RCR, dindt know they had them with both.
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There are quite a few brigades around the state that are both RCR HEAVY and Hazmat.
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cool, theyre the lucky ones, get the opportunity to do it all. :-P
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Yeah and also a lot more courses and regular training to fit in.... In your area there is;
Dalkeith, Nuriootpa with Pt Wakefiled, Waikerie, outer north northeast, and then the likes of Burnside, Stirling...
Sam
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Which brigade are you from to be HAZMAT and RCR, dindt know they had them with both.
The clues are in skirkmoe's post, MVA's on freeway, HAZMAT on KI delivered by chopper that would have to be Burnside :-D
Am i right can i play for the million dollars now :-P :lol:
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burnside sounds liek a goer, especially for the structure fires atttended, being a HAZMAT brigade, RCR etc...
mundcfs is a regular detective...
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Naracoorte is rescue and hazmat and with all the on going training that goes along with it aswell as CABA not much time to do anything else these days. Millicent and penola are the other two hazmat and rescue brigade's in region five.
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Which brigade are you from to be HAZMAT and RCR, dindt know they had them with both.
The clues are in skirkmoe's post, MVA's on freeway, HAZMAT on KI delivered by chopper that would have to be Burnside :-D
Am i right can i play for the million dollars now :-P :lol:
I was thinking Glen Osmond MFS but then saw Scrub Fire so wondered what CFS group :roll:
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hah, there were more than enough red trucks wandering around on jan 11th...
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yeah Burnside is my brigade.
As for training to maintain, Level 1,2,3, CABA, HAZMAT (2.16), RCR (2.17A & 1.13), CFB, Confined Space Rescue (2.17C), Rope Rescue (1.25), Low Angle Stretcher Rescue, Senior First Aid, Advanced Resus Cert, Chainsaw, MART, Forklift, Atmospheric Monitoring (2.14), Emergency Driver, Train Small Groups, Plan/Conduct/Review, Leadership.... that's a lot of weekends!
Stefan KIRKMOE
Senior Firefighter
BURNSIDE CFS
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The hours are long and the pay is great.....but the rewards are the best and so that is why we do it......
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The hours are long and the pay is great.....but the rewards are the best and so that is why we do it......
Couldn't put it better myself :-)
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wow, stefan, many a weekend there! what was the hazmat thing on KI?
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Out of interest, Glen Osmond actually started in MFS area, not CFS, so technically it was their fire now ours ;) (Well, until it crossed the freeway and burnt out of MFS area...)
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Gleneagles rd. Is the boarder buddy :wink:
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Ahh, but it started on MFS side of Gleneagles rd didn't it? ;)
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Negative
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it started half way down the hill on the freeway side didn't it. I have a friend that lives on gleneagles road, nearly lost her house. fire reached her tennis court, which sits about 10-15m below her house. it would've been frickin scary.
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Yeah, steep hill on a dry windy day... I'm glad I wasn't living there...
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i don't think you could get a steeper hill in metro adelaide either.
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you should have gone and saved her house probie then done a dance routine in your firefighting gear. :mrgreen:
*cough
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If all goes to plan at the Wattle Range Group Meeting Kalangadoo might become a chainsaw briage as Kalangadoo SAPOL want Kalangadoo 34 to be equipped with a chainsaw and i'll be one of the first people to nominate for a chainsaw ticket :-D
P_F i dont think it would be appropriate to do a dance routine after saving someones house from a fire :lol:
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she'd love it :evil:
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Enough about pornstar probe, I got my first real call out with lights and sirens! :-D
Fire alarm went off at Sandy Creek primary school, was a false alarm, but I finally got a call out!
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Were you pulled out of bed for this fire call probie_boy cause i have been pulled out of bed countless times for an emergency call the earliest 1:00am
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Try spending the first 5 hours of christmas day at multiple calls and get no sleep it makes for a very tiring day. But hey sleep is overrated anyone agree?? :-D
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Try spending the first 5 hours of christmas day at multiple calls and get no sleep it makes for a very tiring day. But hey sleep is overrated anyone agree?? :-D
So true :-D
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Think my first fire was like January 2003. (I Think)
2Ha Grassie. Pretty Easy Job.
Camo
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Finally back on track
filtered hijackers hijacking my thread, can we charge them with the new anti-terror laws? :roll:
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My first fire (house fire) was in the mid 80's as a cadet. Yes cadet don't go to fires.
We were doing some training on a Sunday morning we had about 6 cadets and 5 seniors. The reason we went to the fire is that we were just about driving past the job.
We were told stay on the truck and don't move. We came around the corner and could see a stack of black smoke ( I think all us as cadets had eyes popping out of our heads)I think we were told ok set up a hydrant and watch out for traffic. Then stay on the truck,but the job was a
Steam train that has stopped.
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Heh heh, we've been called to the train yard at Goolwa a few times for a "going" fire in train carriages yet it's good ol' steamranger puffing away.
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Finally back on track
filtered hijackers hijacking my thread, can we charge them with the new anti-terror laws? :roll:
P_F, You're lucky I don't declare a jihad on you!
hey bra, didn't you pull this off topic yourself???
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Yeah, made a thread dedicated to my own call out history :-D
But people can still post their first call out/fire.
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Yeah, made a thread dedicated to my own call out history :-D
or lack there of! :-D
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or lack there of! :-D
At least he's not ashamed to admit it ;)
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amen!
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Weve had the first fire ... What bout the most memorable / exciting ?
Lets get the storys rolling...
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hayshed fire, 300 bales.
fell down through the top of the hay bales where they were on fire.
Pretty good start to a fire career
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hahaha
still waiting. actually i've had one, not sure if i should put it on the net though...
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aw go on probie!
I have had a real memorable call out yet, only had 7. I guess McLoeds Daughters was cool and my first "real" call going P1 :-D to an alarm.
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Fire Fire = Grassfire in a Vinyard, mostly mopping up
First Job = Fixed Alarm, library
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First Fire = Burnoff Out of Control :x
First Job = Horse stuck in a septic tank (luckily the damn thing got spooked by the siren from the truck and got itself out), bunted around the septic tank and thanksed my lucky stars!!! :-o
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itdan: what where you doing walking on burning hay????
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First Job = Horse stuck in a septic tank (luckily the damn thing got spooked by the siren from the truck and got itself out), bunted around the septic tank and thanksed my lucky stars!!! :-o
possibly part of the reason we dont use sirens to go to animal rescues generally....
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We also had a horse in a septic tank....but it couldn't get out by itself...ended up using old canvas hoses and a backhoe to get it out....
As for first fire - waaayyy too long ago to remember!
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Slightly off topic, but what the heck.... :-P
Pictures of a calf rescued from a concrete dam. http://www.ses.sa.gov.au/aboutses/calf.htm
Interesting that a Larkin frame on a flat bed truck was used.
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we had a couple of years ago,some cows went into the sewer ponds at the local meatworks....
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Thank god IM currently eating a Chicken Schnitzel... :mrgreen:
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well first incident= tree fire
first fire = Murry bridge December 2005 :|