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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: June 09, 2011, 12:48:29 PM »
Perhaps it was more than a car fire...eg threatening / started on a nearby structure.....
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My community wants the siren to be activated during fire danger season, for fires in the local area - which is what we do.
My community is aware that should they hear the siren, they should go outside and look for / smell for smoke, and to check the CFS website etc for info......
Pip
So are you saying that you, as the brigade captain, have been out to the community and advertised the siren as an official means of notification when CFS paperwork states otherwise? Not meaning to stir you up, but i love the inconsistency within the CFS.
An example of the CFS using k codes would of been last night
Both Roseworthy appliances, 34P & 24P responded to an incident around midnight last night. As you do, they both individually notified adelaide fire that they were responding to the incident. Half an hour later, they were paged to respond to an RCR in Hewett, which 359 were also called to. The issue was that they were still at the first incident (and hadn't notified they had finished their first incident 'cos they hadn't) and had to release one of their appliances to the RCR and then call for assistance from other brigades to assist in the first incident. Maybe if they were allowed to use K codes, Adelaide fire would of known they couldn't respond to the RCR and they would of sent another brigade to assist 359. What happens if the first incident was a k99 and then they were asked to attend a RCR with confirmed entrapments around the same time?
i completely understand that many struggle when a radio is put in their hands (i personally found i put on a 'radio' voice), but there are only a handful of k codes that are really relevant to tasks the cfs face. I still believe they are useful and its not too hard to memorise a few codes
i completely understand that many struggle when a radio is put in their hands (i personally found i put on a 'radio' voice), but there are only a handful of k codes that are really relevant to tasks the cfs face. I still believe they are useful and its not too hard to memorise a few codes