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All Equipment discussion / Re: New CFS Village Pumper
« on: November 28, 2010, 06:45:36 PM »
Quote from: 6739264 on November 28, 2010, 07:38:57 AM
I'm still curious as to why 'Tank Fill' exists at all...?

Is it that hard to refill via the collectors and backfill during pumping operations?

As an American comrade once said "and so continues the pussification of the fire service"

Numbers, that has to be the word of the day! Pussification...  Everything is being affected by it in life.

The entire first world is becoming lazy, illogical, etc.    We will be begging asia for nutrition one day me thinks...50, 100 years?

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Country Fire Service / Re: Short 1.8 million in training?
« on: November 25, 2010, 07:27:26 AM »
Tried that, chain of command only has only one way information flow in parts...

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Country Fire Service / Re: Firefighter awareness of appliance stowage
« on: November 24, 2010, 08:41:20 PM »
Quote from: Bill Corcoran on November 24, 2010, 12:33:49 PM
Naracoorte do weekly checking but also for a fun night of training they will take gear off the appliances and ask members to put it back in the correct spot works well.One of their LT'S has also done a 20 question list of equipment on applainces and in a team they have to tell or show the officers where the gear is...

We've recently done this..  i madly took everything off one side of a recent build 34 (same as Penola 34)... and walked away.  Moments later: "dude, your the only one who knows the home to everything".   Huge Sigh. ;)

And somehow, we achieved putting an extra 64mm roll in after finding some extra space by restowing everything correctly...

I've come to just standing there when i see someone opening every single locker to find a torch....

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Country Fire Service / Firefighter awareness of appliance stowage
« on: November 23, 2010, 10:05:41 PM »
G'day all, its not every day i start up a thread, but here goes!

I would like to hear your experiences in your brigade, of how well firefighters remember what equipment is stowed on your appliances and how well they remember where it lives on the appliances.

Are there regular 'lost' looks?  Or is it a well upkept part of regular training? Can you ask a randomly selected firefighter for a specific part of equipment not used every job and get to work with it in the hurry of when it needs to be used? Does "above standard stowage" equipment clutter the situation or overwhelm newer firefighters? Is there enough time spent on stowage/positioning awareness?

I'm coming from a brigade with a need to improve on this.

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: November 22, 2010, 05:55:37 PM »
A System similar to SAAS's Cat A and Cat B Alerts over GRN could be trialed to use in similar scenarios today.

GRN 124: *emerg tones* Domestic Fire Aldgate, Crews from Aldgate and Bridgewater.

And appliance in earshot on the road, with a crew, with the right crew, within reason should be able to call up on air for the job and track priority 2 towards the location.

(Just an Idea)

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SA Firefighter General / Re: SAFECOM
« on: November 20, 2010, 08:38:28 AM »

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Country Fire Service / Re: Short 1.8 million in training?
« on: November 19, 2010, 08:17:35 AM »
And what is the time frame expected for these things to be resolved by the CFSVA with the government, 5 years?

Fact of life: Its only possible to get more funds in the year leading up to an election.

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Ammusing pager message.
« on: November 14, 2010, 09:45:50 PM »
21:11:07    MFS: *CFSRES INC053 14/11/10 21:10,RESPOND ALARM 010/041,ADELAIDE REMAND CENTRE,240 CURRIE ST,ADELAIDE MAP 3 H 6 TG182,FIP INSIDE FRONT FOYER,,ADL205 ADL201 ADL204 ADL203

21:12:07    MFS: *CFSRES INC054 14/11/10 21:11,RESPOND ALARM 036/119,YATALA PRISON,1 PETER BROWN DR,NORTHFIELD MAP 94 Q 7 TG182,FIP MAIN GATE,,AD2015 OAK301 OAK303 PDS22

Prison saying hello to its bigger brother through the fire service.

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Incident Operations / RCR Oakbank
« on: November 13, 2010, 11:07:37 AM »
Mt barker, and apparently, they flew to the job in record time...

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Incident Operations / RCR Oakbank
« on: November 12, 2010, 07:27:42 PM »
Great job in area coverage, and brilliant response time by the first arriving rescue appliance.

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Ammusing pager message.
« on: November 08, 2010, 09:44:02 PM »
Quote from: Alan (Big Al) on November 08, 2010, 03:26:01 PM
1909130 15:25:04 08-11-10 MFS: *CFSRES INC035 08/11/10 15:24,RESPOND Strike Team,AIRSTRIP RD,INGLEWOOD MAP 74 N 3 TG102,RESPOND TO MT GAWLER,CONTACT DGO 1 ON TG 098,CUDL00 KERS00 HERM00 PARC00
 

Ah classic another over achievment  :lol:

you know whats gotta suck now....DEH now being "DENR"....  Whats for DENR tonight?? Burnoff out of control ;)

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All Equipment discussion / Re: New CFS Village Pumper
« on: November 06, 2010, 10:55:36 AM »
Real Pumpers are outright PTO driven...that is all.

I must say, for a 14 appliance, its a step up, the pump is logical this time...

Thank goodness there's no 'tank fill', the most dangerous piece of plumbing on newer heavy tankers.

It'd be great for the Riverland, on dual response with a BWC.

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Attitude adjustment?
« on: November 03, 2010, 02:25:11 PM »
Short and simple answer:  people fail, eventually. To fix this, the higher up guys need to *accept* constructive criticism rather than continue the fail...

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: November 02, 2010, 09:30:24 AM »

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: October 29, 2010, 07:51:49 AM »
And its due to the lack of resources, that Gawler would just have to cope with how the rest of SA copes.. 

Its no different when you throw 6 alarms at a fire and CFS have to cover MFS area,  in this scenario, the risk is lack of training and awareness of the area.

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: October 27, 2010, 09:50:36 PM »
Quote from: Hazmat206 on October 27, 2010, 05:43:59 PM
08:51:12 26-10-10 MFS: *CFSRES INC017 26/10/10 08:50,RESPOND RCR,WATERLOO CORNER RD,BURTON MAP 59 P 5 TG102,OUT FRONT OF SPRINGBANK PLAZA. FROM SAPO,L. CALLED IN FRON DISTANCE. NO FURTHER D,ETAILS.,SLSB19 SAL329 - MFS Salisbury 329

08:46:03 26-10-10 MFS: *CFSRES INC016 26/10/10 08:45,RESPOND ALARM 033/016,NORTHERN SOUND,71 ELIZABETH WAY,ELIZABETH MAP 51 N 13 TG182,FIP ENTRY FOYER,,GAW359 SAL321 - MFS Gawler 359

08:45:12 26-10-10 MFS: *CFSRES INC015 26/10/10 08:44,RESPOND GRASS FIRE,ANDERSON WALK,SMITHFIELD MAP 42 D 13 TG182,AS PER YOUR PHONE CALL,SAIR55 ELZ331 - MFS Elizabeth 331

If both Eliz, salisburys and Gawlers are on different calls in Elizabeth/SAlisbury area, who's looking after Gawler?

Dalkeith, Gawler River, Roseworthy, Concordia...

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SAAS / Re: Black Car
« on: October 25, 2010, 08:22:53 AM »
Ive seen that last week or so, think the bloke lives up in the death zone up near blackwood.

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Hamburg Fire Service
« on: October 23, 2010, 11:20:24 AM »
Quote from: Rainer on October 22, 2010, 06:01:26 AM
I forgot to mention before that there are 87 volunteer brigades in Hamburg which are part of the Hamburg Fire Service!!! Same proceedures, comms, training, equipment etc etc..

If they can do it why couldnt we ?

Food for thought

Something we can only dream to have for the people of SA.

I like the way stowage is organised on the 112 appliance.  Take that and compare it to a CFS 34P, it really puts CFS appliance design into the dunny.

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Country Fire Service / Re: mutual aid...
« on: October 09, 2010, 12:04:48 PM »
Thats because the budget is purposely 75% of that actually required to build the actual building lol....

...and the fact many contractors are involved, gotta love the Pre-00's Era

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Country Fire Service / Re: Apparently we only go to bushfires....
« on: October 09, 2010, 12:03:51 PM »
Tree downs had the highest percentage of response for last financial year..and the last, and the last???

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Hypotheticals / Re: Domestic Response
« on: October 09, 2010, 09:27:20 AM »
What happens when...you have 4 BA operators..and a Lieuy rock up to the Naracoorte station.

Would you call other brigades purely for man power, not BA?

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: October 07, 2010, 08:51:17 AM »
Quote from: crossy on October 06, 2010, 09:54:10 PM
speaking of long drives....

MFS: *CFSRES INC018 06/10/10 10:59,RESPOND RCR,STUART HWY,COOBER PEDY MAP 0 0 0 TG070,240 KMS SOUTH - CONFIRMED 2 TRAPPED,CPD029 COOB00 - CFS Coober Pedy Response

Wouldnt it be nice if there was a multiagency chopper with pods as such....

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: October 01, 2010, 12:02:08 PM »
MFS: *CFSRES INC021 01/10/10 09:35,RESPOND COMMERCIAL FIRE,CFS HOUSE - 60 WAYMOUTH ST,ADELAIDE MAP A A 11 TG182,STRONG SMELL OF SMOKE ON LVL 7,ADL205 CAR041 ADL201 ADL203 ADL204

MFS: SNR OFF GRP:INC021 1ST ALARM RESPONSE TO STRONG SMELL OF SMOKE, LEVEL 7, CFS HOUSE, 60 WAYMOUTH ST, CITY. NO ALARM COVERAGE DUE TO RENOVATIONS, CREWS INV POSSIBLE WELDING IN AREA, DO FOODY IN ATTENDANCE

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Country Fire Service / Re: Incident Stats
« on: September 22, 2010, 02:15:31 AM »
a trial started....2008??

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SA Firefighter General / Re: South Australia's billion dollar Budget cuts leaked to media
« on: September 18, 2010, 01:16:10 PM »
Quote from: Andrew K on September 18, 2010, 09:59:21 AM
good to see someone has finally realised that rent all the light ops vehicles is a more expensive solution than buying hopefully the ses will work that out too and be able to follow suit

And..the rest of fleet SA...The Governer's car should be a 1960's GEM.

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