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TOUR OF MOUNT PLEASANT HOSPITAL HYDRANT BOOSTER TONIGHT AT STATION 19:00. - CFS Springton Info

Any ideas what they getting up to with the booster?

Whats the biggest sized booster that the cfs trucks could handle? ie would a 150mm booster be too hard? or is a 200mm system the maximum size??

FIP's aren't something you can just do a course on. 12 main manufacturers each with about 10 designs that are different...

No rto's can do the panel courses atm. and i cant find a rto that does the familiarity with fire systems course.

I rung chubb and asked for their help and got told to call another company cause they dont tell anyone but their own how they work. got the same resonse for the other fire companies.

Lucky most of those systems are just tank suction with a single hydrant outlet.

Might be a reason for brigades to upgrade appliances 

How do the cfs 34p and 24urp go with mains pressure 4in/4out? How often do hills brigades pratice with the boosters? I heard of a site being installed in the hills ie near mt barker with a triple pump and tank set up. Should be good for cfs to practise with 


Didn't know the cfs had their building safety unit again. They finally replaced max?

All good. Just curious cause i keep seeing the Mets doing commission tests, but wonder how it works in the CFS areas. Can hardly get a cfs pumper out to commission a system. Although i saw a private contractor with a fire truck doing the test so might be that.


Would've thought it would have worked well to have the contractors give a donation to the local brigade to come out to commission the system, get to learn the system and also raise some mular

Hi,

Quick question, Who does the booster commissioning in the country areas ie hills and country?

I know there are the fire companies that do the 3 or 6 year tests, but who does the commissioning test? Especially as some brigades pumpers wouldn't be able to support the flow/ pressure needed to get the pass at 1800kpa/ and the flow rate.

Surely the mets don't go outside of the metropolition areas as they wouldn't be the responding appliance.

Hi all,

We use the Biopak for training fire teams in the mines, they are the standard against what others are assesed against. Yes they cost alot more, but when you need to walk into a large underground mine to find a few miners you need as much duration as possible.

The idea of double dutching with a double 9L OC system is just silly, most people would struggle to walk 100m in double dutch system, whereas the CC systems are alot lighter.

Actually we have walked around for over four hours at work doing heavy activites such as lifting heavy rolls of old canvas hose with brass couplings, operated pumps and climbing ladders... and the coolig system in the CC systems keeps the air cool. If yours didn't you need to have it serviced properly.

The idea of having to spend half your life checking the CC compared to the OC is just silly. All you need to make sure is that the service sticker saying that it is good to go is on the system and also the filters have been replaced and its good to go!

CC is used throughout the Hunter Valley very successfully in the mines and the fire service also has  a fair few sets for large building searches

Once again some people are playing the name and red and blue cards. No matter how much government tries to remove the words from these companies names, uniforms, and other stuff it wont happen. Having seen countless people in town who were in town for a conference from the mines wearing their rescue tv's the majority have EMERGENCY, RESCUE, FIRE, AMBULANCE written on them. And many of these people were walking down rundle mall and through the main shops.

and for the vehicles... there are about twenty vehicles sighted in adelaide and known to police for having dual light flashers fitted to their cars illegally and many vehicles that have chevronning on them that is also very confusing... but as many of these vehicles are sign written and retrofitted with lights after they are sold they are not picked up by transport department boys and girls at regency park.

You can whinge, you can whine, you can have a good old fashion sit in, but nothing will change. and polite towing change cause they wanted to look diff to the cops, as many people were abusing them when it can to reposess their cars and just hating them cause they looked like cop tow trucks.

Btw new ambo's for PTS from interstate look good, wouldn't mind one sitting next to our pumper

Didn't that person work for the fire service then go away on the fire service dollar, now to deliver to the same fire service... Mets are looking to reacredit with the Queensland Fire and Rescue due to their expertise in the area.

Should have stayed witn SAPOL delivery... mainly because they are the designated rescue organisation for heights through STAR group who are atm being reaccredited by an external agency and purchasing new equipment to be able to do the job best.

And they're are going single rope on advice from the external contractor, and also changing the way they do everything so they don't have a rediculous amount of gadgets that they were sold over the years which were simple never used due to complexity and extreme pricing. They're also going to be doing alot more intergration with Special Operations Ambulance so that they will have a team situation with two paramedics and two STAR.

However I did notice that there was a rope rescue situation on KI the other night... Are there any rope rescue assets based on KI or only on the mainland? (SACFS or SASES)

What go from mixed gear to lolly pop uniform? 

There are on site fire crews trained by one or two private companies... I know a couple high risk sites in Regency Park have them.

The Kilburn Site does have on site advanced fire teams trained from what the owner was saying on night, however the risk posed by the LPG tank which was the target out-weighed the benefits of fighting it.

MFS used to have a commercial arm remember... however the government sold it off to Chubb

The tite of "Stay and Go" is tarnished... A rebadging with a not so slick media campaign is what is needed... No offence but no gives a scheiße about the premier telling us what to do... get the cameras to SACFS station have a officer, cadet or firefighter tell the camera...

Cause when politions speak most people do not listen, or care what they think.

The fire was all out at mid-day. Only one shipping container left smoldering. Fire did not touch any building just blackened the walls in some spots. The clean will start tonight and be finished by friday night.

Woodville skyjet was cleaning up spots most of day.

Would be interesting to see what fire systems are installed after this... ie more hydrants, fire team training.

It was a LPG tank that was threatened which is being replaced overnight due to heat cracks that happened dueing day. The factory stayed operational in the Inwood avenue section all night and the Blackburn st section as well with 1 plants spacing and fog nozzles on walls to keep internal cool.

The Company only lost small amounts in the yard which was very small section of the total yard!