SA Firefighter

Not my area Darius

Cheers Jaff

then who honestly cares... not having a go directly at you Jaff (or at least not meaning to be rude) but this sort of thing seems to be a huge problem on this forum... people comment & whinge about things that dont affect them in the slightest.

if you read the papers, theres a number of other issues that the UFU, CFSVA (or whatever there called now) and SASESVA are working on together, including the change of speed limit past stationary emergency services...

i guess they need to try to keep some cooperation happening, rather than going down each others throats completely at the moment...

love it, like the LEDs on the bonnet as well.

Kapunda SES are an RAR unit in that area, and cover the "Kapunda District" and surrounding areas i believe....

Can anyone explain the time discrepancy for an incident that occurred this morning, ambos responded to car rollover on the Strathalbyn-Meadows  road at0225hrs. CFS and SES were responded to inc no 7 at 0259hrs car rollover Strathalbyn-Meadows road 4kms towards Meadows ,I assume the same incident.
That unless my maths is incorrect is a delay of response time of 34mins.
Question do SAPOL or SAAS carry dry powder fire extinguishers for perhaps using in the unfortunate event of an entrapment with a fire starting and no fire cover on scene.
Question do SAPOL or SAAS as a procedure at an accident scene check that the car involved ignition is turned off and in gear and handbrake applied.

Cheers Jaff

up to the brigade effected by the incident to lodge a greivance form...

personally i think thats a good idea, and although its "just a name" it would probably assist other agencies in having a better idea of resources attending an incident and where they are coming from.

for example, Sturt SES... there is a suburb called sturt, however the unit is actually based in coromandel valley, about 7kms away (yes i know they have an appliance at Sturt SAPOL however this is not where there unit is "based")

aahh i must just be thinking of the furthest west fire resources we have in SA, Eucla are not CFS, as you said Pip.

only ever really seen them being used for air ops.....

dunno why we dont get them out more often.

i know that a new hardware store has been "off lined" due to 6 or 8 no carrier alarms over the course of a weekend.
Hopefully there is a secondary alarm system that they are falling back on during this time??

a no carrier means the alarm system is offline.... no connection to the service provider (MFS??) and therefore no information from the premises to the fire service.... fall back would be 000.

just noticed the pages came from differant computers... might explain it, im guessing one wasnt set on 24hr

considering they were responded priority 2 and over 12 hrs after the initial....

im guessing the "specialist equipment" wasnt really gonna make much differance to the overall outcome.


an interesting read none the less....

07:22:05 27-01-08 NO CARRIER ALARM, NO CARRIER, NATIONAL RAIL REST HOUSE, RAILWAY PDE, PORTAUGUSTA MFS Pt Augusta
07:22:01 27-01-08 NO CARRIER ALARM, NO CARRIER, BIG W, 5 EL ELAMEIN ROAD, PORT AUGUSTA MFS Pt Augusta
07:21:56 27-01-08 NO CARRIER ALARM, NO CARRIER, HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION STACK, HOSPITAL RD, PORT AUGUSTA MFS Pt Augusta
07:21:52 27-01-08 NO CARRIER ALARM, NO CARRIER, TELSTRA MICROWAVE STATION, 111 TASSIE ST, PORT AUGUSTA MFS Pt Augusta

Where these just testings? or did the Port Augusta crew have four separate calls within 13 seconds?

on surface value, there all "no carrier" alarms... perhaps someone cut the line that connects them.

lets all have a geography lesson


looks fine as a response to me... heaps of brigades go to vehicle fires by themselves every day... besides didnt CFS agree that adelaide fire would respond the first resource, then it was up to locals to request more?