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General Discussion => Incident Operations => Topic started by: medevac on February 24, 2006, 09:06:04 AM
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between 0800 and 1040 i have been listening to a 2nd alarm domestic in dover gardens, small school fire in parafield gardens and now they have just transmitted k99 factory fire in melrose park...
LOL good day for the boys
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ah they're paid they'll live. someone's gonna sleep well tonight!
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I heard from a friend that Norton Summit CFS did a 'change of quarters' to MFS station on Friday. Did anyone else ?
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athelstone to glynde, and stirling to glen osmond.
also tea tree gully to golden grove...
strange that norton summit moved to oakden, when so many other EMA brigades didnt roll..
luckily CFS seemed to be fairly quite.
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athelstone to glynde, and stirling to glen osmond.
also tea tree gully to golden grove...
strange that norton summit moved to oakden, when so many other EMA brigades didnt roll..
luckily CFS seemed to be fairly quite.
Sorry to sound dum, but what does the acronym EMA mean ?
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Enhanced Mutual Aid
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EMA stands for Enhanced Mutual Aid...for brigades like Burnside, Seaford, Salisbury, Morphett Vale, Athelstone, Norton Summit etc that have MFS respond in to their area and visa versa and are liable to do COQ (change of quaters to an MFS station if MFS are tied up at a major incident
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Hmmm i always thought that EMA was the pre-emptive action MFS took when they want your patch :evil: :-D
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Defiantly starting to show with with some of them in the suburbs...i guess stop calls still count as a response though ?? lol
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In 2 hours I have just heard Brooklyn dispatch Companies to:
*28 Box Alarms
*3 Second Alarms
*1 Third Alarm
*12 Vehicle accidents
God knows how many gas and good intent calls, and the assignments to assist the upper east side.
I just shuddered at the thought of SAMFS handling that in 2 hours!!!! :lol:
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a box alarm is "drop the box" / kinda going fire right?
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a box alarm is "drop the box" / kinda going fire right?
I could be wrong Bittenyakka but I'm pretty sure a box alarm is an American version of our manual call point's that you find attached to some monitored systems they are inside and outside on the street in NY and years ago they were connected to the telegraph system. :-)
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a box alarm is "drop the box" / kinda going fire right?
I could be wrong Bittenyakka but I'm pretty sure a box alarm is an American version of our manual call point's that you find attached to some monitored systems they are inside and outside on the street in NY and years ago they were connected to the telegraph system. :-)
Further to this I think they account for most of their MFA's!
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Box alarm is a hangover from the old days when the had boxes in the street that you could open pull a handle and it sent a signal to the station nearest. Certain tones told you what address it was eg Box 2123 was toned out "gong gong....gong...gong gong.....gong gong gong" they would look that card up and send the appropriate response. Some were regulars and they knew the tones off by heart.
The same system still applies, everything gets a box number and that tells the dispatcher what to send, and yes, they still get the same regular box alarms.
Not many places still have the actual boxes in the street.
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is regular akin to the RAH or Adelaide uni?