Forestry Fire Towers

[Scania_1]

Most of the fires the towers call in have already been rung in by people on mobiles already..

[Robert-Robert34]

littlejohn Forestry SA every so often puts up the contracts for each fire tower in the Green Triangle Region for tender meaning anyone who wants to sit in a box and watch out for fires then report them in via radio can apply for the contract

 

[Blue]

Most of the fires the towers call in have already been rung in by people on mobiles already..

I would question that  I often hear traffic on Forestry's GRN channel and the call go to CFS well before there is a page sent or any traffic is heard from region 5. But I guess there is also a lag between a 000 call and response.

[5271rescue]

Not sure what the go was this year but the fire towers would report the sighting to saforest office then they would radio SHQ(CFS) rather than contact the local CFS(RHQ)...

[Robert-Robert34]

Everytime a fire was spotted by one or more of the towers SE Forestry Base will send spotter aircraft to that location to confirm if there was anything there

Or if the fire has already been reported by a member of the public then South East Forestry Base activates an Automatic Dispatch for Mount Gambier,Mount Burr and Penola 'Nangwarry' forest bases as well as the bombers meaning an all out fire response..... if theres a stop call then SE Forestry Base cancels the Auto Dispatch allowing appliances to either return to their depots or standby locations   

[littlejohn]

Ath, are you referring to SE towers, or Adelaide hills?

I agree with Blue - a lot of responses down here can be tracked through from FSA towers spotting the fire, reporting to their HQ who triangulate and then report to CFS SOC. For us it's an exception to get a telephone call first, and with only about two bumps on the landscape, the tower's accuracy is pretty good.

[Blue]

Everytime a fire was spotted by one or more of the towers SE Forestry Base will send spotter aircraft to that location to confirm if there was anything there

Or if the fire has already been reported by a member of the public then South East Forestry Base activates an Automatic Dispatch for Mount Gambier,Mount Burr and Penola 'Nangwarry' forest bases as well as the bombers meaning an all out fire response..... if theres a stop call then SE Forestry Base cancels the Auto Dispatch allowing appliances to either return to their depots or standby locations   

But only if there is a risk to plantation 

[mack]

Most of the fires the towers call in have already been rung in by people on mobiles already..

dunno where ya pulled that from. sure some have already been called in, but a helluva lot havent...

[Robert-Robert34]

Everytime a fire was spotted by one or more of the towers SE Forestry Base will send spotter aircraft to that location to confirm if there was anything there

Or if the fire has already been reported by a member of the public then South East Forestry Base activates an Automatic Dispatch for Mount Gambier,Mount Burr and Penola 'Nangwarry' forest bases as well as the bombers meaning an all out fire response..... if theres a stop call then SE Forestry Base cancels the Auto Dispatch allowing appliances to either return to their depots or standby locations   

But only if there is a risk to plantation 

Not necessarily Blue cause all the grass fires that Forestry SA respond to along with CFS the Automatic Dispatch system still applies regardless of it being near plantations or not

[Blue]

Everytime a fire was spotted by one or more of the towers SE Forestry Base will send spotter aircraft to that location to confirm if there was anything there

Or if the fire has already been reported by a member of the public then South East Forestry Base activates an Automatic Dispatch for Mount Gambier,Mount Burr and Penola 'Nangwarry' forest bases as well as the bombers meaning an all out fire response..... if theres a stop call then SE Forestry Base cancels the Auto Dispatch allowing appliances to either return to their depots or standby locations   

But only if there is a risk to plantation 

Not necessarily Blue cause all the grass fires that Forestry SA respond to along with CFS the Automatic Dispatch system still applies regardless of it being near plantations or not

Well actually there aint much in the south east that isn't near a ForestrySA plantation, so my comment still holds 

[Camo]

what do classify as near?

[Blue]

Near = getting-nervous-can-see-the-smoke-from-the-plantation 

[Blue]

Guess this affects the hills more so than the SE. Wonder what the deal is. I'm sure there will be more in the media about it.

http://www.forestry.sa.gov.au/MediaReleases/Mount_Crawford_Fire_Tower.pdf

[rescue5271]

The company i work for put in to Mann the south east fire towers for two years but they missed out on the contract Thank god for that would have meant more work for me...Fire towers have there place and it was not long ago that CFS where looking at closing down the MT lofty tower...Fire tower spotters are by far the best way of finding out a location of a forest/scrub/grass fire with in that area..To say that the public will call it in well ye they might once its knocking on their back door step...Or if you are in a area where there is high population and people keep an eye on what is going on in life...

[6739264]

Fire tower spotters are by far the best way of finding out a location of a forest/scrub/grass fire with in that area..To say that the public will call it in well ye they might once its knocking on their back door step...Or if you are in a area where there is high population and people keep an eye on what is going on in life...

Maybe where you live and maybe in the 1800's but not around Mt Lofty and not in 2008.

[mack]

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