SA Firefighter

thats 28th of Nov

Right in Fire Danger Season.

Why dont we wait till Feb 17th instead? You know, when we have a good chance of a major fire happening!

The timing of the initial release was always dubious, just before the start of the MLR fire season, but now to be cutting us over during the actual fire season is ludicrous.

Postpone it till April now!

Can anyone explain what the difference is now with some of the on call country crews?

I have noticed, especially in the south-east with Naracoorte and Millicent crews of NCA188 and NCB188 also the same for Millicent.

I know the 188 is the on call volunteer crew, have seen them even get tasked during the day lately, but what is with the A and B?? They quite often get paged together. I have noticed places like Barossa and Whyalla seem to only have a B crew paged.  Is it Cert levels or something?

CFS standing down from Far North today, but there is talk if we need to go back up, it may be a task force rather than a strike force, sending up 3 QRV's with a 34 as water support or 2 qrv's / 2 34's.

BUT...if the boxes are part of evidence as part of the investigation, then it would be an SES task (remember, they do sort of still fall under Police jurisdiction in a round a bout way). No different to SES doing an evidence search anywhere else really.


But I also understand what you are getting at, we use and abuse the volunteer time way too much.

My brigade has mobile phone at the station on permanently when we get a call if your responding you ring the number and a hang up first person at the station checks for missed calls and knows who's coming. Cost $0.00 to run simple fail safe system.

Fail safe till the first major incident where everyone else in your area is on a mobile and the tower is congested. Or there is no tower because it fell over during all the shaking of a big earthquake. Mobile technology is great, but a long, LONG way from fail safe!

 

The initial strike team went up to help with asset protection and some mitigation burning, with the relief crews doing mitigation and hazard reduction burns around Alice Springs, as well as being a rapid response team to any new fires.

Quite happily stand corrected 

But are they specialist hazmat, or just the basic gear? I dont know what a 9 stowage would be, but I noticed that the Hazmat at Hackham on Friday or Saturday (days are a blur right now) even when it as a Met job they sent 206 instead of 439 or 469......

I also noticed that the paged Hag info confirmed that full splash suits were required...would a standard 9 rescue pumper carry these and associated gear?

Pardon my ignorance, I dont really get to play with red trucks in my role....and even when I do not to the extent of knowing their stowage. Always willing to be educated

Umm...would it be the fact that EDNH28 is Eden Hills Hazmat, which is far closer than the MFS Hazmat truck in the City???

MFS now doing the Adelaide Uni Research paging??

22-09-11 12:26:04 Repage:MFS: *CFSRES INC044 22/09/11 12:25,RESPOND Vehicle Accident,KING ST,PENNINGTON MAP 92 K 14 TG182,CNR ADDISON RD,APK361 - Adelaide Uni Road Accident Research
22-09-11 12:26:02 Repage:MFS: *CFSRES INC044 22/09/11 12:25,RESPOND Vehicle Accident,KING ST,PENNINGTON MAP 92 K 14 TG182,CNR ADDISON RD,APK361 - Adelaide Uni Road Accident Research
22-09-11 12:25:58 MFS: *CFSRES INC044 22/09/11 12:25,RESPOND Vehicle Accident,KING ST,PENNINGTON MAP 92 K 14 TG182,CNR ADDISON RD,APK361 - MFS Angle Park APK361
22-09-11 12:25:55 MFS: *CFSRES INC044 22/09/11 12:25,RESPOND Vehicle Accident,KING ST,PENNINGTON MAP 92 K 14 TG182,CNR ADDISON RD,APK361 - MFS Angle Park Station

Looks like those paging issues for the Crystal Brook job are going to have further ramifications.

Last night was reported the motorist walked away, but overnight was transferred to Adelaide with serious head injuries......