SA Firefighter

Maybe we'll get them in 40 years or so when i retire

We often get called to our local primary school for alarms that just go off, but last year during school some little terd tried to torch the toilets in the new two storey building. The fire was put out by some very brave but foolish teachers (they got smoke inhalation). The building filled up with more than enough smoke to warrant being ventilated but not one of the smoke alarms activated, that was extremely worrying.

Maybe she had a thing for ya P F 

We had a large cabin cruiser go up a few years back on the river and from bank to bank is about 300-400 metres across and this boat was smack bang in the middle so we utilized the local sea rescue squadron who are basically private boats along with two crew, a hi volume pump and foam. Was a successful outing (for us not the boat ) But the problem is that there is no training for this. So we've organized our own training within the local marina's on old boats and thats fine but some defined SOP's and training by region or state would be better.

Hey a few years back i remember that a few appliances in the far norht used to carry firearms on their units, but i believe that was quickly stopped

We were at a fire on Hindmarsh Island one day and one of our members was at the station which was locked up, he heard noises out the back and when he investigated found some local low lives trying to take stuff from our cars. luckily nothing was taken because a few of the irate members were looking for retrobution.

Just wondering Sam is it possible to set up an archive for the site, say the previous seven days or something along those lines???

I do agree with James on not getting responded to all MVA's in the urban/metro area, However in the RCR resource directory it states that outside the Adelaide metro area fire/rescue, SAAS and SAPol must be responded to all MVA's but currently the attitude is "oh the caller said it's not too serious" so we'll wait until our crew arrives for a sitrep before responding other services.

But as I've said in previous posts i think the members of all services do a stellar job, it's just some areas need fixing and it wouldn't be all that hard to do.

 And Sam if you read this you should take all SAAS pages off of your site then it might stop us (OK me mainly ) having a whine about response times.

Didn't know we had the option of keeping our old appliances around "just in case". We were told heres your new appliance and when asked where our old one was going, we were told the bone yard at N.E Isuzu.

 Maybe its just Sturt group having it their own way as usual, or maybe it's just me putting my foot in it (again).

Must be a whole new low for SAAS. SAAS responded to MVA Thompsons Beach at 2212 Dublin responded at 2244 with the msg 1xtrapped. Next page is for a SAAS retrieval team (i presume for the same job) It's getting beyond a joke i believe.

I'm sorry for the SAAS bashing it's not intended for the crews they do a great job. It's for the comms people. Talking to the Goolwa team leader the other day about the job we had and she said that it's common practice for the Comms people to wait for a truck to get to a job for a sitrep before responding other resources. I then asked if she'd heard of the RCR resource directory and she didn't even know it existed!!

Why do they need the old appliance there while they train and test it? When we got our new 34 we lost the old one the same night after only about an hours training.

Same as us, our old 34 was gone as soon as we finished looking over the new one!! As for the fuel gauge problem when ours is full it only reads 3/4

Does anyone know who's getting the prototype with the PTO?? Or has anyone seen it at N.E ISUZU yet??

CHEERS..