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CFS Firey, I think they have gained popularity based on peoples experience in the Black Saturday campaign fires in Victoria. I know we used them quite a lot and found them very useful (compared to using the CFA standard rural hosereels - which were dogs to use).

We fashioned a dead reel for our appliance for the KI fires and it was excellent for the repetative 50m blackout along a road, worked quite well.

So basically you're saying the advantage is in the speed of making up, rather than deploying?  (and there, it's the speed of making up to move positions, rather than to go home?)

They're good if you use a lot of layflat.  on the old 24 reels you can get about 100-150m of hose. 

This is where I'm not convinced they're any better.  Surely it's easier and faster to bowl out a new length of hose every 30 metres, rather than drag 150M of hose through the scrub?  or am I missing the point?

What are peoples opinions on dead reels?  The CFS seems to be putting them on all the new trucks, but I'm not convinced they're any more useful than rolled hoses.  Has anyone had experience with them?

With Oakbank, Burnside reasonably close by, MFS slightly further out than Burnside, Eden Hills further over, and  Strathalbyn 40k away, surely that is plenty of cover for incidents within that area?

Things are a bit different in the highly populated part of the hills where you have a number of brigades within 3-4km of each other.  Up here, 40km is a long way away, and we have an expectation that backup and resources are nearby. If you based your assessments on the same metrics as the rest of the the state, you could probably close down a few brigades, and there would certainly be no justification for urban appliances, given how close the city is...

However, I now hear that Stirling have not been consulted about the transfer and are not very happy (understandably).

Correct.
The move has been put on hold for now though.

You mean the Work Cover for cancer stuff?

SACAD was suppossed to do a lot of things.

InterCAD will fix it.

Does anyone know why the lettering on the front of the station reads "Salisbury Command Fire Station"?

10:20:22    MFS: *CFSRES INC0020 11/12/12 10:20 RESPOND HEAVY RESCUE, ALARM LEVEL: 1, STURT HWY/VASEY RD WAIKERIE,MAP:C/241 54,TG 205, ==CONFIRMED ENTRAPMENT, SAPOL CONDUCTING CPR, CAR VS TRUCK, SAAS RESCUE ENROUTE :WAIKPUMP WAIK RES H :

Seriously this problem is continuing to happen often, whether the call was first taken by SAAS or SAPol a 15 minute delay calling a rescue resource is completely unacceptable in these times, when will something be done regarding this??

Also, who are SAAS Rescue? or do they mean SOT?

What do people think about the new HRZ and associated procedures?  Waste of money, or saving lives?

I think it's good that the media are picking up on the landholder responsibility side of bushfires (rather than always painting them as the victim, or lucky escapee) but I get the impression the survey is a little biased (they want cleanups to be compulsory and want a survey to support that it's public opinion).

I'd like to see data on why people don't clean up around their homes or have plans - that kind of survey would be far more productive IMO.

Still, I'm looking forward to seeing the results!

With only a small number of brigades actually taking advantage of tax deductability status, a decision was made to remove it, hence saving headaches etc for the finance people

Are there some figures available on the number of brigades 'taking advantage' of the DGR status?  I may be from one of those brigades, but I always thought the CFS relied heavily upon donations to run, and being tax deductible makes us more attractive.  I can appreciate the reasons for dropping our DGR status, but I know it will have an impact on at least my brigade's income.

Quote from: Alex on October 04, 2012, 06:50:19 PM

Baggy, time for you to go back to school. If not to confirm the truck will respond what do you think the purpose of acknowledging is? And yes. That person is taking responsibility, somethin the CFS is very poor at recognizing.

I must be mis guided...I thought we were to acknowledge receipt of page with A Fire than book mobile when responding in appliance.. Is that incorrect?

I thought under SACAD it was just an acknowledgement that the page had been received and if an appliance didn't get mobile they would default anyway?  Maybe I'm misguided too.  (Although I think it's good practice for someone who's actually responding to acknowledge so they can relay further details if there are any).

is anyone noticing that the SAAS Road crash research is down? Any one know why?

cheers

You mean the road crash research pages are no longer on the paging feed, or the actual road crash research people?