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rescue5271

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Re: Incidents attended
« on: May 20, 2005, 05:41:24 PM »
Naracoorte has been very busy of late,house fire total loss around $150,00 afew mvs and  the old fixed alarm. One of the main problems of late at working jobs has been fire plugs that are full of rubbish or plugs that dont have any blue markers.
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strikeathird

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Re: Incidents attended
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2005, 07:56:41 PM »
^^  Sounds like you have worked out the next fortnight of training  :-P   .. Clearing Hydrant plugs  :-D
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rescue5271

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Re: Incidents attended
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2005, 09:52:17 PM »
But are ground plugs our job to look after???? They are there for our use and it is SA water job to clean out and put the blue markers back on the road not our's :mrgreen:
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Re: Incidents attended
« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2005, 09:52:11 AM »
Your right Bill
But I can bet SA Water arnt going to be doing anything about it in a hurry......
Its one of those things, you can bet if you dont do it, you're going to need one again in the near future.... murphy's law!!!!
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Re: Incidents attended
« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2005, 10:32:57 AM »
Don't know about the blue marker roll out... Is it a SA Water agreed thing now that they will place them everywhere throughout the state? Hope so, I thought it was just being done on a local basis, local government paying. Can someone fill me in please? :?
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Re: Incidents attended
« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2005, 12:03:15 PM »
Adobe PDF http://www.sawater.com.au/NR/RdOnlyRes/DrgSetF13fsaihthxxxzaaomlyryyaothbxewlcjta.pdf

Any Interesting Read If Your Interested In How The Fire Plugs/Pit's Are Constructed.

Sorry Was Unable To Find Any Info On The Blue Markers.
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Re: Incidents attended
« Reply #6 on: May 23, 2005, 12:33:55 PM »
This thread was moved from forum suggestions to here. More appropriate area.
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Re: Incidents attended
« Reply #7 on: May 23, 2005, 02:35:19 PM »
This issue seams to go on and on and on!

Some brigades have taken it upon themselves to put them around their area (ie in an Urban area Happy Valley), whilst others have arranged for SAWater to use their areas as test cases (ie just out of Port Pirie on Hwy 1)

CFS/MFS and SAWater seam to have this ongoing problem about who's responsible for their instillation and maintenance - the CFAct 1989 states
"Interference with fire plugs etc
60. A person must not—
(a)cover up or conceal a fire plug or hydrant; or
(b)remove or obliterate any mark, sign or letter used to indicate the position of a fire plug or hydrant.
Penalty:Division 7 fine."

Only problem - it fails to say who should put them in!

When you travel interstate you see a number of combinations, blue markers, blue markers with yellow arrows and alike - but the common thread is blue markers.

Unfortunately maybe this is yet another political issue that will take a death or similar to resolve.

Small problem to resolve, however it continues to be a great and grave problem.
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strikeathird

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Re: Incidents attended
« Reply #8 on: May 24, 2005, 07:09:54 PM »
Quote from: oz fire on May 23, 2005, 02:35:19 PM
This issue seams to go on and on and on!

Some brigades have taken it upon themselves to put them around their area (ie in an Urban area Happy Valley), whilst others have arranged for SAWater to use their areas as test cases (ie just out of Port Pirie on Hwy 1)

CFS/MFS and SAWater seam to have this ongoing problem about who's responsible for their instillation and maintenance - the CFAct 1989 states
"Interference with fire plugs etc
60. A person must not—
(a)cover up or conceal a fire plug or hydrant; or
(b)remove or obliterate any mark, sign or letter used to indicate the position of a fire plug or hydrant.
Penalty:Division 7 fine."

Only problem - it fails to say who should put them in!

When you travel interstate you see a number of combinations, blue markers, blue markers with yellow arrows and alike - but the common thread is blue markers.

Unfortunately maybe this is yet another political issue that will take a death or similar to resolve.

Small problem to resolve, however it continues to be a great and grave problem.

I think the Blue markers were (still are) all ready to be put out, but there is a few'd about who will pay for it. E.G - SA WATER, Road Transport, Council, CFS... list goes one. (As always, no one wants to pay)-

And i Don't know bout H/V  -  Never heard that they put there own out... And haven't seen any when driving through.
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