Did I do the correct thing this afternoon, or did I wate volunteers time.......serious question because I am doubting myself....maybe I should have got more information before calling, maybe let someone else call the smoke sighting in who was closer to the scene.....
This afternoon I was waiting for the bus at Commercial Road, Pt Noarlunga South to travel to work in the city. I saw black smoke beginning to show above the hills towards Onkaparinga Hills region, but I was not sure if this was near the Onkaparinga George park area. This area is dry brown grass and from experience is very steep at some places.
So I picked up my mobile telephone, dialed 112 and was connected to Fire Services. I described where I was, that the smoke was beyond Old Noarlunga township and I thought approx 5 kilometers away into the hills. No flame could be seen because the smoke was from over the hill.
The ComCen operator knew of a burnoff at Pimpala Road, but took the information in case other telephone calls with more details were received.
Very quickly handled and well done by the telephone operator & MFS ComCen operator.
The pager messages generated are:
14:34:54 06-10-06 HAPPY VALLEY *STOP CALL* SMOKE SIGHTING WAS BURNOFF AT McLAREN VALE. CREWS RETURNING TO STATION - H/V STATION 6/10/2006 2:34:37 PM
14:07:11 06-10-06 SHQ: CFSRES: MORPHETT VALE RESPOND INVESTGATE SMOKE ONKAPARINGA HILLS MAP 177 M10 SMOKE IN AREA OF ONKAPARING GEORGE. - ASSIST HAPPY VALLEY > 6/10/2006 14:06:58
14:00:43 06-10-06 MFS: RESPOND To 06/10/06 13:59,PIMPALA RD,ONKAPARINGA HILL, MAP 177 M 10 ,,SMK IN AREA OF ONKAPARINGA GORGE,8032*CFSRES:
Was I beginning paranoid with calling the smoke sighting in while outside of incident area, or 'is it better to be safe than sorry' and call the smoke sighting in ??
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