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SA Firefighter General / Re: HyperYelp/HyperLo
« on: January 07, 2011, 02:35:47 PM »
Nothing like a pair of Air Horns to strongly suggest to a vacant minded motorist that they should perhaps move...
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Your a useless fu ck mate. Your post bore no relevance to the thread, hence my reply. You and several others are the reason this forum has never been more than a joke.
Hiding behind an alias and doing nothing more than trolling is not contributing.
Mods feel free to do whatever you like.
I guess if your experience is only the MFS, or an MFS wannabe Brigade, then thats the way you think. They are wedded to that thinking, but it's actually flawed. Maybe its just that SOs are control freaks and still want to feel like they are part of the game. Maybe its just that MFS guys cant drive....I don't know. Actually, as I said, it's the driver's responsibility. Failure to correctly operate the warning devices that contributes to or causes an accident/incident, and the driver wears it - HE/SHE is in legal control of the vehicle. The officer SHOULD be doing much more important filtered on the way to a job, like listening/talking on all 3 (or more) radios , listening for oncoming appliances, pre-plans, crew allocations, thinking about bomber use,and a 1000 other more useful things at a fire, than worrying about when to change the siren from wail to yip.
But then, you wont agree Numbers.....life's like that
Thanks for the useful info.
difficult to bother using anything remotely concerned with sirens when the CFS do such a wonderful job of making it so user friendly for the driver to operate (remember he is the one with the responsibility for the safe passage of the appliance - not the officer). Putting a small, multifunction control 90degs from your line of sight and in the darkest place in the vehicle so that you are forced to take your eyes off the road, just as u approach the higher risk areas, like intersections, is certainly the best way to get people to screw it up and then not be bothered using it properly - take a bow CFS
At least SAAS can get it almost right with a foot change up button as well as a duplicate on the vehicle horn. Much easier, and safer
I'm sure CFS are sick of my near miss forms regarding them
I may be wrong, but its just a shame we did not end up with someone from a more urban focused background...
6739264 it seems you are trolling to stir up other users. Its easy to sit on your scanner cranking it up and make judgements based on a 2 or 3 line MCT message. I would guess that most of the 2nd alarm appliances were turned back straight away, what is the harm in over resourcing a job anyway?? If another incident happened at same time they would all be availble to respond so no damage done.
Just following the SOP's
SOP 4 mate.
K99 or persons reported for a c-risk is automatic second alarm.
how can u say over supplying appliances to a minor incident, were u there? how do you know the shed wasn't full of gas bottles of jerry cans full of fuel, how do u know the sehd wasnt attached to a house? maybe MFS should listen to you and under supply these so called minor incidents then when your shed catches fire and a single pump turns up but cant handle it you loose the shed and your house, use a bit of common sense.
sometimes you just need appliances for water and all the reasons that F7 has
Nothing wrong with upgrading and also two reasons for it are A) The crews are in PBI, and at a going job that's hard work, and B)fresh resources to give the crews a break and also share the workload around the job makes sense to me.
We've said it before and we will say it again, better to have resources responding than to wait till it hits the fan, and a STOP CALL never hurt anyone.
thanks TFT and SA FIREY, great to see some ppl with common sense about themselves, cheers
At least they are not wearing goggles to house fires numbers...maybe that should be suggested to MFS.
Oh no! Not the big bad UFU! What are they going to do? Put some more paperwork bans on? The Union has that much that they could be making a point about and they're not. Which leads me into...
It will "ONLY" take "LESS THAN 30 MINUTES" to get an aerial into Mt. Barker? And this is ok because ITS THE SAME WITH SAMFS AREA? Are you serious? 2x ALP's for the entire state is a joke. It still fails me as to why there are not a minimum of 3, North/Central/South... Call the union!
You sound a bit against the UFU numbers, have you had a bad experience with them or have you quit their membership. Last time i checked i got a nice little pay rise and kept my conditions of employment, oh and the gear we use is not terrible because of them
Numbers you forgot Muriel!
I was refering to the original document that CFS issued to Adelaide Fire, which stated that on a day of catastrophic fire danger, hundreds of people would die and thousands of homes would be lost. There original paperwork never had the 'in the case of a fire'... it seemed that people were just going to spontaneously drop.
You seem to have lost your normal sense of humor?
As I said earlier, they can't train their vols and equip them let alone train staff and equip them, and those staff will be part of the UFU and they won't settle for second rate gear and lack of training.
An aerial in Mt Barker ? Why, only take a bronto a from Adelaide less than 30 mins, no worse than waiting for an aerial at Christies or Gawler?
As I said CFS has an urban risk for sure, but NOTHING compared to the CFA with towns like Ballarat, Geelong etc
I dont know how people can say MFS have better gear have you seen what gloves they wear to rural jobs???. yes agree CFS needs to pick up its game but it comes down to MONEY....If MFS want to move into CFS area's then they better get some 4wd tankers.....What gloves do they wear? Are they worse than the single piece leather gloves CFS issue? Are they just Nitriles? Do you have a brain?
Provision/Probational License holders can't respond P1
As SAAS has recently discovered......lots of crashes = lots of cash lost to insurance companies!
....and the majority of this is because of stupid driver behaviors......... filtered Gen Y's!!
QuoteMFS: *CFSRES INC076 04/12/10 15:18,RESPOND GRASS FIRE,GURR RD,SCOTT CREEK MAP 168 M 11 TG136,SMOKE SIGHTING FROM LOFTY TOWER, SMOKE B,UILDING,BRAD42 SAIR55 BRAD00 IRBK00 MYLR00
CFS Lofty Group Officers Response
Good spotting guy's, proves there is still use for the tower
But why isn't SOT paged for incidents, net call and other info that relate to them only, not medSTAR?