SA Firefighter

just for info:
there is a document regarding use of fire sirens... times/types/etc...

cant find it atm though..

not sure... would have though SES have vertical rescue resources available much closer... perhaps it was treated as HAZMAT risk with some kind of exposure to the dust generated by whatever was hosued in the silos... hmm there i go answering my own question, but still not sure.

had a group vehicle turn up to a private alarm at 0100 the other day, no upgrade to alarm or anything like that... was like "what the hell???"

i think they seem to have a problem with what they are getting... not the proces by which they are getting it...

AN URBAN STATION IS LOSING AN URBAN PUMPER AND GETTING A RURAL 34

i think its obvious what theyre problem is.

looks like they dont have the paper online...

hahaha... on the other hand did you read what was said in the hills and valley messenger???

qouted "Dale Thompson Sturt CFS Deputy Group Leader"

"dont rely on us" and " dont depend on us: CFS"

just the message we want to send out to the public... especially after one of the worst fire seasons in a while...

havent heard anything about stopping the automatic dispatch of rescue to all VAs... seems to me that would be silly, as it would definitely increase the risk to human life... what happens to the golden hour when you have already spent15-20 minutes confirming rescue is required and getting it on scene? i understanmd you mean to jobs that are reported as no entrapments..... but there just not always obvious... dont forget you can be physically, mechanically or medically trapped.... it might not appear to someone that your pinned... but that doesnnt mean you can move... i have seen a car get completely turned into a convertible to remove someone who was medically trapped, the car had very little damage to it. (could that be one of the instances when a job is put down to being nothing more than a fender bender?)

fair call

While I agree that fire cover should be responded to all MVA's, when the caller says that no one is trapped (Which they often do) Rescue shouldn't be responded.

disagree completely.

rescue brigades arent always required purely because of presons trapped in cars... 9as strange as that sounds)

Fire AND Rescue should attend every vehicle accident... one shouldnt go without the other. as everyone says, they can always be given a stop call.

i tried 

plan for the worst, hope for the best

SOP for all emergency service call centres is respond FIRE + RESCUE + SAPOL + SAAS to ALL reported vehicle accidents, regardless of reports of reported entrapments, injuries, fire, etc

some people just work outside the SOPs
if your curious as to wether my above statement is true then have a gander at the SA road crash resource directory

Not sure why... but for some reason i think of PBI when i see this... lol