SA Firefighter

I wonder what went wrong here.
This went to Air Desk, looks fine...
07:58:05 27-12-12 NOTIFICATION MFS: *CFSRES INC0034 27/12/12 07:57 RESPOND TREE FIRE, ALARM LEVEL: 1, FORBES RD ALDGATE,MAP:ADL 157 L 9,TG 136, ==BASE OF TREE ALIGHT, NEAR INTERSECTION OF EMERY RD :AIRDESK ALDG12 : CFS State Air Desk

This went to Aldgate, ain't look fine...
07:58:08 27-12-12 LARM LEVEL: 1, FORBES RD ALDGATE,MAP:ADL 157 L 9,TG 136, ==BASE OF TREE ALIGHT, NEAR INTERSECTION OF EMERY RD :AIRDESK ALDG12 : CFS Aldgate Response

Just wondering, how many of you read the complete pager message while responding?

I believe CFS SOP is that a rescue resource will be responded to any vehicle accident, until nil entrapment is confirmed by an emergency service on scene.  This was part of the RCR resource directory but now that's been replaced by SACAD I'm not sure where these policies come from.

MFS don't have the "rescue to every job" policy, so they have a 'minor cleanup' response type, but they're not supposed to use this for CFS jobs.

I've heard the same thing, we got called to a Minor Clean up a few months ago, which immediately got updated to RCR, which got a rescue appliance sent as well. Though when we (Both us and the Rescue) arrived, the Ambo's were just leaving with the sole occupant, and SAPOL had already set up. So I'd think the 'nil entrapment' call might have to come from us/RCR person. Not sure though.

I know Yank 34 needs a lot of work.
To add to what I've already said above, I remember being told by John Edge that if you get a bit of water on the pump controls that they wouldn't work at all. Something about them not being constructed to our climate, can't exactly remember what he said about it.

We (Sellicks) talked a bit about this last night, after training we filled both appliances, and checked they were full. We didn't resort to jerry cans as of yet, hoping we don't have to go that far.

I was on both Happy Valley 34P (Friday the 23rd, Saturday the 24th) and Yankalilla 34 (Sunday the 25th) at Coomunga.
When we got to Happy 34P on the Friday, it was a mess, things were damaged, not restowed correctly and the wheel'd been damaged. Before we even took it out on the fireground, the crew I was with put effort into cleaning her up and sorting everything out. And continued to look after the truck for the two days.
When we got Yank 34, the diff already had a dent in it from a sinkhole apparently, again that was a mess and things stowed incorrectly. We sorted that all out. But while out on the fire ground while out driver was negotiating a tight turn between fence posts, a single bit of fencing wire got snagged on the BA cabinet door and pulled a the door out, not completely, but enough so that it was well and truly not moving anywhere. So we had to disassemble what we needed to of the door, with another crew's help, and we moved the BA sets so they wouldn't get dust in them (later transferring them to a command car).
Our driver didn't do it on purpose and did feel somewhat bad after doing so.