SA Firefighter

Must be having a good run.

Saw a page for Port Wkefield SAAS the other day that said Cat2-V/A but no one else was responded but as "radio" said there could be other circumstances.

Bugger that i'm getting a Trident airport tender you won't even have to get out of the truck for a house fire just point and shoot.

Thats interesting re the EB, and no mundcfs, none of us work for mfs, I did speak to mfs via 150 for a dispatch during the smoke days as funnily enough we were over run with calls as were SAMFS and this was the only way to get through at the time.

He must have a twin working there  because this person was working the dispatch.

And the person sounded new because he was having trouble with his K-codes!!!
But cheers for that, a little cross training between services in dispatch wouldn't be a bad thing though

At the station about a month ago when on the scanner came the voice of one of the more recognisable people who work in SOCC but was doing comms for the MFS on 150, that explains things a little.

MFS: RESPOND To 12/02/06 03:25,MAIN NORTH RD,SMITHFIELD, MAP 42 H 15 ,,NORTH OF CURTIS,332*CFSRES:

Respond to what

If the response isn't in their directory then they just put "respond to" and put further details further on in pager message or by radio.

mikes completely correct mundcfs...
6minutes is the time a unit has to acknowledge page, not to role a truck... of course it is up to the unit/brigade to use there brains and defualt within a reasonable time.

Yes sorry understand how it works but as you said if they used some brains... it's a pity that sometimes it only takes a few people to ruin or stain working relationships between services

During the past 12 months plus all SES Units are reviewing response times. Majority of SES Units will now have a vehicle on the road within an average of 10 minutes. Especially the RCR crews.

In the past I believe SES Units were very bad in response times. But I believe majority of SES Units are equal to other organisations now.

Our local SES are an RCR unit and i can tell you their response times are shocking!! We've been called to a job with them seven minutes after they were called and we were on scene 15 minutes before them their response time was 36 minutes for an MVA.

This crew has found a way around the default plan, we were called recently to another MVA where they defaulted as we were driving out the door we were stopped because they were mobile. 20 minutes after this stop, one of our members was going to work near this accident and as he drove into port elliot the SES were only just driving out for the accident.
When it came over their pagers they had been defaulted to us they came up on air to SHQ that they were mobile.

This seems to be the norm for this unit, the first person comes up on air to SHQ and says South Coast 410 on air and responding, thus all communications are done through their unit. By doing this within the 6-7 minutes from page they negate being defaulted and roll a truck whenever they get enough crew which can take anything up to 25-30 minutes and then if they are called to back us up and are stop called they stil rock up with all the bells and whistles and state that they can't be stop called by CFS and that they are rescue, personally if they want to make fools of themselves then thats their problem but to respond the way they do will endanger peoples lives!

 Sorry for going off the tree topic but SES down here act as a law unto themselves and it's bullcrap!! 

Speaking to some local retained a while back and they mention that some full time F/F in Adelaide would rather work with CFS than retained F/F any day, which i realise is hearsay but if true it's pretty bad??

Would they run Mt Gambier like pirie with 24hr shift on one truck and retained on page for the other???

It's funny the way units or brigades are paged for tree jobs. The closest ses to goolwa is South Coast at Port elliot which is about 12kms or 30-40mins response time, yet they get most of the tree jobs in Goolwa, we still do about 30% of them but we are only 10 minutes away, trust me in the middle of the night i'd much rather be in bed than chopping up a tree but it makes me wonder if a tree is on a road why not respond the closest or both services to deal with the problem. With a hazardous situation surely 10 miuntes to get to a job is better than 30-40???

 But as for trees on houses that is an SES role but if the tree is not causing a hazard on a road or to someones property then we usually turn the job down.

We had a job recently where a tree branch had fallen on a road and another was threatning to fall in a persons back yard but was of no threat to anyone or any property so we removed the tree on the road but told the owner he had to deal with the hanging branch himself he wasn't to happy but when we said we'd move it for a donation he refused (can't help but try )

Ours went off just after 3 in the morning last year and have seen a few around the state go off between 3 and 4 in the morning, definitely not a coincidence

Mclaren Vale were running around in Athelstones old 34 the other week but the stickers had come off and the appliance read THE STONE 34 it took me a while and a few questions as to where The Stone brigade was 

I believe the tucker for willunga fire was rustled up by seaford logistics from Aldinga general store, they must have died when asked for 60 or 70 hotpacks!!