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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: August 07, 2012, 04:06:37 PM »
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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: August 06, 2012, 04:48:21 PM »
NYPG;REMINDER THERMAL IMAGE CAMERA TRAINING TONIGHT 1930 HRS AT THE GROUP CENTRE FROM GO
I reeallly hope this isnt one of the few CFS have just purchased, seeing as there are already atleast 2 TIC's at MFS stations in very very close proximity to that group it could have possibly been served better elsewhere.
Ah well.
I reeallly hope this isnt one of the few CFS have just purchased, seeing as there are already atleast 2 TIC's at MFS stations in very very close proximity to that group it could have possibly been served better elsewhere.
Ah well.
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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: July 29, 2012, 08:37:26 PM »Someone's not happy:
MFS: *CFSRES INC0001 29/07/12 10:55 RESPOND FLOODING SALVAGE P2 44 NEWELL AV MIDDLETON MAP:ADL 306 P11,CALLER:RALPH FLEMING 85555357 == WATER ENTERING THROUGH REAR FENCE THREATENING TO ENTER SEPTIC SYSTEM. :SNOTIFY E STH20 A : - SES South Coast Response
then
11:18:57 MORE CREW REQUIRED - SES South Coast Response
and then
11:33:35 SOUTH COAST MEMBERS, DON'T BOTHER. CLOSING DOWN. FROM COMMS. - SES South Coast Response
And also a dummy spit to adelaide fire too apparently, some unit members are not to happy with fire brigade being responded to and dealing with "their" jobs.
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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: July 23, 2012, 11:20:28 PM »
Surely something could be arranged so a brigade doesnt go offline for a station rebuild or works?? Maybe its something else?
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SA Firefighter General / Re: wasting volunteers time
« on: June 22, 2012, 11:34:38 PM »
After working with this unit for some 15 years now a dummy spit isnt surprising, i dont think they are used to other services helping them or getting "their" jobs done for them before they get there. I have no sympathy for them.
This is also the same unit who was monitoring local CFS talkgroups this morning and trying to self respond themselves to a VA outside of their area and that they werent called to.
As much as these sort of calls arent our usual bread and butter Its nice to be able to help with them. We rarely used to get called to them or when we did it would be hours after help was called for and often unhappy people because they eventually realised they couldnt do 30 calls at once.
This is also the same unit who was monitoring local CFS talkgroups this morning and trying to self respond themselves to a VA outside of their area and that they werent called to.
As much as these sort of calls arent our usual bread and butter Its nice to be able to help with them. We rarely used to get called to them or when we did it would be hours after help was called for and often unhappy people because they eventually realised they couldnt do 30 calls at once.
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SAAS / Re: What Callsign is this?
« on: June 20, 2012, 10:00:35 PM »
Yes- very lucky indeed, we had one of our firies go down at an RCR last year right in front of 2 ICP's needless to say if it had happened anywhere else he wouldnt have made it. Some very lucky people out there and job well done.
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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: May 15, 2012, 07:52:49 PM »
further to the above how many brigades out there run an active power supply to truck batteries for recharging at their stations???
We used to but found the batteries failed often after 2 years and we had more problems than not. For the last 6 or 7 years we have moved away from the rechargers and just simply isolate the truck, since doing this we have had far less isssues with batteries and the trucks not starting.
We used to but found the batteries failed often after 2 years and we had more problems than not. For the last 6 or 7 years we have moved away from the rechargers and just simply isolate the truck, since doing this we have had far less isssues with batteries and the trucks not starting.
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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: May 15, 2012, 07:50:31 PM »
CFS:HV INFO: FURTHER TO EARLIER MESSAGE. THE 24OV SUPPLY TO 34P HAS BEEN REMOVED TILL A SAFER ALTERNATIVE CAN BE FITTED. TURN OFF CHARGER AND REMOVE AS PREVIOUSLY DONE - LT1 15/05/2012 7:17:49 PM
lol
lol
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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: May 15, 2012, 04:00:14 PM »
HAPPY VALLEY *INFO* 34P HAS NEW ISOLATOR 24V/240V PLUG TURN OFF POWER POINT TO ORANGE LEAD FIRST THEN REMOVE PLUG FROM 34P SOCKET WILL HAVE 240V LIVE PINS IF NOT TURNED OFF FIRST...CAPT - H/V STATION
Sounds pretty safe..
Sounds pretty safe..
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SAAS / Re: Volunteer Shift Work
« on: May 11, 2012, 07:31:36 PM »
Goolwa have 3 bedroom house, lounge room with tv/dvd and wii. If the crew live in Goolwa then they can crew from home if they wish and either respond to the station or take the truck home with them but most crew from on station as alot of the vollies are from out of town.
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SAAS / Re: Volunteer Shift Work
« on: May 10, 2012, 10:32:47 PM »
Strath i am unsure about but as for Goolwa, they run a 4 week roster board in station, 8am-6pm days and 6pm-8am nights. Sometimes if a member cant do a full shift they may write their times they can do and someone else may pick up the other part of the shift.
As of late i am unsure but last year they quite often had 2 paramedics doing shifts there if vollies were unable to fill a shift to keep up area coverage as Goolwa is a busy station, also its common for a vollie and a para to do a shift together.
Some people have a set shift/s they do each week, if they cant do one of those shifts they place a red or green dot next to their name and someone else can then fill that shift if they are free.
If a shift cant be filled by vollies or para's then a para truck may come from flurieu or victor to sit on station.
As of late i am unsure but last year they quite often had 2 paramedics doing shifts there if vollies were unable to fill a shift to keep up area coverage as Goolwa is a busy station, also its common for a vollie and a para to do a shift together.
Some people have a set shift/s they do each week, if they cant do one of those shifts they place a red or green dot next to their name and someone else can then fill that shift if they are free.
If a shift cant be filled by vollies or para's then a para truck may come from flurieu or victor to sit on station.
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SA Firefighter General / Greenhill 34 to Wirraba
« on: May 10, 2012, 08:19:08 PM »
perfectly good regional spare 34 sitting in our station which would be perfect for a strike team like this, and to be honest if we were asked to supply a truck we would probably send this instead of our 34
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All Equipment discussion / Re: Sirens on american vehicles
« on: March 18, 2012, 10:00:00 AM »
COuld be worse, have seen a clip of a US fire appliance with a large Train horn on it blasting through suburbia in the middle of the night.
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SA Firefighter General / Re: DENR
« on: March 13, 2012, 07:50:41 PM »Something to do with the Government slash and burn scorched earth policy.
Implications for CFS could be the fact that due to not hiring seasonal casuals now, the PB schedule would probably be significantly reduced meaning more growth in the parks, and more liklihood of fires that DENR wont be able to deal with on their own.
How many fires do DENR actually deal with on their own that they havent started themseleves?
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SA Firefighter General / Retrofitted cab deluge system
« on: March 05, 2012, 12:19:57 PM »
Have u tested that personally baggy? I would rather be crammed in a single cab with a deluge than on the back with a couple sidelines hoping for the best
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SA Firefighter General / Re: SACAD
« on: February 26, 2012, 06:07:12 AM »
Well if thats what it pulled for that job then so be it, thanks pump and Alex
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SA Firefighter General / Re: SACAD
« on: February 25, 2012, 04:52:48 PM »
seeing as its cfs area though and closer to dalkieth wouldnt or shouldnt it pull dalkieth instead of salisbury??
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SA Firefighter General / Re: SACAD
« on: February 24, 2012, 07:19:17 PM »
maybe it doesnt pull them because they havent got a "9" truck??
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SA Firefighter General / Re: SACAD
« on: February 23, 2012, 09:40:16 PM »Shame we gotta find this out on here...
Honestly its not that big of a deal and pretty easy when your pgaer goes off to go oh look they changed it oh well
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SA Firefighter General / Re: SACAD
« on: February 23, 2012, 06:14:30 PM »
MFS: *CFSRES INC0094 23/02/12 18:28 RESPOND STRUCTURE SHED, 1 RAILWAY CRES EVANSTON,MAP:ADL 33 F 3,TG 182, ==TYRES ON FIRE BY SHED :DALK34P R ELZ339 GAW359 :
So it looks like the 19 has finally been dropped.
So it looks like the 19 has finally been dropped.
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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: February 17, 2012, 08:27:46 PM »From what i have been told, a brigade in Strathalbyn group, and one in East Torrens groupto replace 2000 era 24P's in those brigades
The strath group would be strath24p. Others due for replacement would be Clayton and Black fellows but they would be rural 2/3-4s
Yup Strath and Athelstone 24P's going. Would like to hear a good justification from Region as to why ours appears to not be on any replacement list for the forseeable future.
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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: February 17, 2012, 06:55:00 PM »
From what i have been told, a brigade in Strathalbyn group, and one in East Torrens groupto replace 2000 era 24P's in those brigades
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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: February 17, 2012, 05:30:19 PM »
MFS: *CFSRES INC0076 17/02/12 17:14 RESPOND VEHICLE FIRE INC LPG, HEASLIP RD EDINBURGH,MAP:ADL 50 F11,TG 102, == SMOKE AND FLAME ISSUING IN CAB. JUST NORTH OF RAILWAY :ELZ331 ELZ339 R2 KUIPER VIRG19 VIRG24 : -
MEMBERS, PLEASE NOTE, MFS DID NOT ATTEND THIS CAR FIRE, THEY PUT A STOP ON THEMSELVES. DONT BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ ON THE PAGER.IF AVAILABLE RESPOND TO STN
Dont know about anyone else but this just screams to me "oh look MFS are responding into our area so i wont bother responding"
seems like somone needs to grow a little
MEMBERS, PLEASE NOTE, MFS DID NOT ATTEND THIS CAR FIRE, THEY PUT A STOP ON THEMSELVES. DONT BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ ON THE PAGER.IF AVAILABLE RESPOND TO STN
Dont know about anyone else but this just screams to me "oh look MFS are responding into our area so i wont bother responding"
seems like somone needs to grow a little
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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: February 16, 2012, 09:36:20 PM »
reedy creek, tilley swamp, the vehicle replacement program is a shambles, there are brigades out there getting their 2nd 34P, yet there are brigades like mine still trying to fit our rcr gear on our 24P and continually trying to add extra space for it, we train weekly with 20-30 members, never fail to get out the door in a timely manner, and yet we keep getting looked over when all brigades as busy or even a little quieter had theirs replaced ages ago..
We keep getting told of the risk we cover but we are asked to cover it in an appliance that is literally falling to bits, the plumbing needs to be fixed up, it need a refurb basically and once again CFS dont want to know about it
Cmon CFS lift your game, Your an absolute joke at the moment.
We keep getting told of the risk we cover but we are asked to cover it in an appliance that is literally falling to bits, the plumbing needs to be fixed up, it need a refurb basically and once again CFS dont want to know about it
Cmon CFS lift your game, Your an absolute joke at the moment.
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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: February 16, 2012, 06:56:39 PM »
still a heap of SEM's to go out so doubt it