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SA Firefighter General / Re: Appliances lost in the hills
« on: January 09, 2015, 03:24:38 PM »
Not sure which callsigns, but i have heard of at least one QRV suffered fire damage and one heavy had a tree land on the cabin.

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: September 01, 2014, 05:05:36 PM »
07:21:13 01-09-14 MFS: *CFSRES INC0010 01/09/14 07:20 RESPOND ROAD CRASH RESCUE, ALARM LEVEL: 1, VALLEY VIEW DR/LOWER NORTH EAST RD HIGHBURY,MAP:ADL 96 K11,TG C152 T182, ==2 CAR MVA. 1 PERSON TILL IN CAR :ADL202 PDS229 : - MFS Paradise 221 Response

Paradise now running a pump/rescue? Is that to relinquish some RCR response area from Athelstone CFS and/or ease workload on 204?

Ultimately just another resource in the system.
With the way SACAD works though it will ease some of the pressure on 329/204 to the north eastern & eastern suburbs and better response times for rescue to the area.

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Country Fire Service / Re: ES Reform
« on: July 16, 2014, 12:48:02 PM »
Firedoc02 = uneducated

Only 6 posts, all of them in this thread = troll?

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"Assist SAAS" does NOT exist in SACAD in the form of a response type. At this point in time.
The "Assist SAAS" in SACAD was to be used as part of intercad ; ie a job SAAS comms would send to the fire service CAD requesting assistance, which would have its incident type updated based on the details of the call.


The agreed upon procedure by all agencies is that if the assistance is for man power only the closest resource will be responded as "Asisst Resident", if there is difficult extrication then the appropriate response type: eg, rescue general/industrial/heights is to be used to respond special resources.


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MFS: *CFSRES INC0002 14/04/14 01:33 RESPOND VEHICLE RECOVERY P2 THOMPSONS BEACH RD DUBLIN MAP:C/205 54,CALLER:THUY 043292001% ==3 CARS BOGGED ON WAY TO THOMPSONS BEACH, BEEN THERE FOR 7 HOURS. :EDI20 A :
SES - EDINBURGH

Why would you wait 7 hours to call for help. Forcing volunteers to get up at 1st.

Perhaps exhausting all options of self rescue, including trying for local contractors before wasting volunteers time.

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All Equipment discussion / Re: New CFS Uniforms
« on: April 04, 2014, 08:50:43 PM »
It's alright...
lots of pockets, but to me the material and cut feels heavier.
not as comfy as my old nomex, but meh...

zips on all sets delivered to our station seem to be crap quality and seize a lot.
water bottle pockets are useful, but the radio pocket doesnt really have the right angle on it, so the antennae hits you in the face.

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UPST INFO: WEATHER PERMITTING BA TRAINING TONIGHT ALL BA OPERATORS PLEASE MAKE A EFFORT AND PLENTY TO DO FOR NON BA CHEERS DANNY - CFS Upper Sturt Info
Weather permitting
Gee hope its not too smokey or hot either!!!!
2 Tablespoons of cement per member.

Muscleandpluck, when trolling please try not to forget the SAMFS also has it's own extreme weather policy in regards to training...

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SA Firefighter General / Sturt Group tanker fundraising
« on: March 25, 2014, 01:34:38 PM »
probably not, sturt group have always made quite a bit of money from collections in there area on election day. few wealthy suburbs up that way.

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Ammusing pager message.
« on: December 16, 2013, 09:31:09 AM »
I'm not from seaford, but seriously.

How friken hard is it to answer pages like that. Yes one or two people might be away, but only getting three or four replies from brigades with 20+ members, some people obviously just don't give a guck about being in a FIRE BRIGADE, it's not a social club.

End rant.

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Ammusing pager message.
« on: December 12, 2013, 12:58:20 PM »
12-12-13 12:56:52   MFS: *CFSRES INC0034 12/12/13 12:56 RESPOND UNDEFINED EVENT, ALARM LEVEL: 1, 2 OSLER ST ELIZABETH VALE,MAP:ADL 61 Q11,TG 182, ==WOMAN ARMED WITH HAMMERS AND SCREWDRIVERS THREATENING TO IGNITE CAR :ELZ339 : - MFS Elizabeth ELZ339



I would have thought matches would be easier.....

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: November 28, 2013, 02:33:47 PM »
what he said


the point is valid though... why stop a resource when noone has even gotten out the doors yet?

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: November 04, 2013, 10:22:08 PM »
What was the story Pip? Completely seperate incident?
Seemed to go third alarm?

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: November 01, 2013, 07:40:41 PM »
also, not every COQ goes through as a page/response
a lot are predetermined for the day based on training and/or operational deployment
a lot happen over phone and a lot are MCT data messages only

Yes i understand not all change of quarter go through the paging system but if the were at Angle Park station it would have paged through Angle Park station not Adelaide station. It doesn't really matter im not arguing just found it interesting. :-)

true

priority two, specialist equipment and personnel

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: November 01, 2013, 01:43:16 PM »
also, not every COQ goes through as a page/response
a lot are predetermined for the day based on training and/or operational deployment
a lot happen over phone and a lot are MCT data messages only

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: November 01, 2013, 01:42:07 PM »
priority two, specialist equipment and personnel

does it really matter though?

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Country Fire Service / Re: CFS Associate (?) Member
« on: October 24, 2013, 07:53:22 PM »
Considered the SES?

I'm currently in the SES (in one of the busiest units in the state infact) however there are a lot of things I am not impressed with some due to ses and some completely out of ses control. I'd like to stay with my unit but am finding myself getting more and more disillusioned.... i'm really trying hard not to start a rant here hahaha.

What kind of things do the Ops support brigades do?

By the way thanks for the replies everyone :)


Hah, well if thats how you feel with the ses i doubt youll enjoy the cfs anymore.

Different uniform, same issues.

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Country Fire Service / Re: Contribution from any brigade members wanted
« on: October 24, 2013, 12:43:53 PM »
Mmmmm promo video for the cfs and its an outdated appliance rather than the latest and greatest, and a crew responding in super slo mo to extinguish someones bon fire..... certainly doesnt inspire me.

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Country Fire Service / Re: CFS Associate (?) Member
« on: October 22, 2013, 09:40:17 AM »
Considered the SES?

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: September 21, 2013, 06:41:29 PM »

This is all well and good as long as the info sent on the pager is correct. Once was responded to an MVA, car vs embankment, no entraps late one night when I was 17. Got there and it was a high speed car vs tree with dual entrapment. A lot of blood, noise and screaming. I dealt with it fairly well (the screaming nagged at me for a bit) but others perhaps wouldnt in a similar position. Horses for courses.


Very true, unfortunately though the sources of information can very rarely be completely relied upon. Communications centres quite often get calls from people who either drive past without stopping, or stop and really have no idea. Information becomes second and third hand and it gets hard to get a real idea until someone arrives on scene. And even then people have varying abilities to determine what exactly is happening, ie; different services carrying different definitions for patients or entrapments, etc..

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: September 21, 2013, 06:38:49 PM »
In our group no personal details are to be sent over the radios and also if there is a fatality and we need to send a sitrep then it is done by mobile phone rather than grn



Whilst i respect every group or individual officer's right to make their own choices, I've never understood the hesitance to put these sort of details [the fatalities, not personal names, numbers etc] over the GRN.

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: September 20, 2013, 07:16:54 PM »
Without including personal details; ie car rego, or persons names, i tend to think the more information the merrier.

If sending a page that says "RCR, 2 fatalities, one ejected, one decapitated" means that a station takes two seconds longer to choose their crew and prevents a young 'innocent' person [or otherwise unfit person] from seeing something they don't really need to, then that's a good thing. It also lets the oncoming crew prepare themselves for what they may be approaching rather than being overwhelmed on arrival.

It is a fine line though, and consideration needs to be given as to the accuracy of the information.

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: September 20, 2013, 09:23:56 AM »
Is it just me, or should this kind of information be kept for when you call Adelaide fire on phone / radio?
And I know people can listen into the radio, but the amount of people that would find out via radio instead of the pager feed would be substantially less.


The GRN Paging and Voice system is the communications method for CFS. Therefore any relevant information should be fine to broadcast on it.

There are only a few things that should not be broadcast, ie specific details on assisting SAPol with drug raids, etc as it can potentially alert their intended targets.

Perhaps if it is a concern they should look at encrypting it, similar to SAAS, SAPol.

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: September 14, 2013, 09:20:07 PM »
13-09-13 09:47:29 MFS: *CFSRES INC0031 13/09/13 09:47 RESPOND VEHICLE FIRE, ALARM LEVEL: 1, BEACH RD GOOLWA SOUTH,MAP:ADL 307 K15,TG 138, == ON BEACH BETWEEN BEACH RD AND THE MOUTH CALL SAPOL ON 0418 809 245 :GLWA24P R GLWA34 : - CFS Goolwa Response

13-09-13 10:05:26 MFS: ARE ANY APPLIANCES MOBILE TO INC 31? PLEASE ACK WITH ADELAIDE FIRE - CFS Goolwa Response

Shouldn't they have been defaulted alot earlier?

6 minutes to acknowledge, plus another 10 to go mobile once you acknowledge... so up to 16 minutes before anyone really gets chased up... that is a long time for a fire to develop.

luckily most brigades have either gone the no deplete option or are quite good at knowing their crewing and defaulting early.

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SAAS / Re: Removed Post
« on: September 08, 2013, 06:58:21 PM »
More than likely because you're just another troll...

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Country Fire Service / Re: Contribution from any brigade members wanted
« on: September 05, 2013, 08:01:50 AM »
Considering the changes to social media policy, those of us who may or may not have cameras and may or may not have footage, photos etc, might be a little hesitant to supply it. Especially for something that is not official.

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