Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging

[F.B.R.T]

First appliance arrives on scene with the arrival message of 'oooh s.h.i.t.t!!!!" :-D

[Zippy]

09:03:49 29-02-08 MFS: *CFSRES INC024 29/02/08 09:02,RESPOND COMMERCIAL FIRE,60 WAYMOUTH ST,ADELAIDE MAP A A 11 TG182,MEET CATHERINE FROM SAFECOM AT FRONT DOOR, SMOKE IN BLDG, COMP FIRE NOW OUT. TG155,ADL205 41 ADL201 ADL203 ADL204 MFS Car 41

[Katrina]

MFS: *CFSRES INC064 29/02/08 16:29,RESPOND Vehicle Accident,BAROSSA VALLEY HWY,LYNDOCH MAP 0 0 0 TG096,1 KM FROM ROSEDALE TURN OFF TO LYNDOCH,TANT00 LYND00 CFS Wattle Range Group Officers Response
1909376 16:29:50 29-02-08 MFS: *CFSRES INC064 29/02/08 16:29,RESPOND Vehicle Accident,BAROSSA VALLEY HWY,LYNDOCH MAP 0 0 0 TG096,1 KM FROM ROSEDALE TURN OFF TO LYNDOCH,TANT00 LYND00 CFS Tantanoola Response


No offence to you lot in the Barossa but it is a little bit too far to travel for our crew :-D

[car31]

1908911 16:03:56 29-02-08 BARKER RESCUE NOW BACK IN STATION - AWAITING TO BE RESTOWED WITH EQUIPMENT CFS Mount Barker Response

Wonder if they got that equipment on in time??  :-P

1908911 16:16:22 29-02-08 MFS: *CFSRES INC062 29/02/08 16:15,RESPOND RCR,BALD HILLS RD,MT BARKER MAP 173 E 11 TG128,CNR SPRINGS RD,MBKR19 CFS Mount Barker Response

[boss]

MFS: *CFSRES INC002 01/03/08 00:43,RESPOND Rescue Animal,WELLINGTON RD,WISTOW MAP 000 0 0,FROM POLICE, ABOUT 2-3 KM FROM WISTOW. N,O ONE TRAPPED,MTB020 SES Mt Barker Response

MFS: *CFSRES INC002 01/03/08 00:47,RESPOND Vehicle Accident,WELLINGTON RD,WISTOW MAP 000 0 0 TG128,FROM POLICE ABOUT 2-3 KM FROM WISTOW NO,ONE TRAPPED,MBKR19 CFS Mount Barker Response

adelaide fire is doing well lately  :|

[Trav]

1919066 21:27:02 01-03-08 MFS: HAVE FUN CHASING THESE KIDS TONIGHT NIPPER MFS Elizabeth 331 Response

[Zippy]

1919066 21:27:02 01-03-08 MFS: HAVE FUN CHASING THESE KIDS TONIGHT NIPPER MFS Elizabeth 331 Response

At This rate Elizabeth aint gonna have a good nights sleep.  :mrgreen:

[backburn]

This may not be the right spot but heard something funny on the scanner tonight Barmera 24P was bogged down by the Lake  :lol:

[SA Firey]

1915531 23:31:24 03-03-08 22:19:58 ESCUE HEIGHTS,PENNESHAW ,PENNESHAW MAP 0 0 0 TG130,RIVERSIDE RD BAUDIN BEACH 77YEAR OLD OV,ER CLIFF CONTACT CHARLES VONDUSSA XXXXXXX,10 P1,PENN00 KIS029 SES Loxton

I dont know about you but Loxton sure is a long way from KI :-P

[bajdas]

1915531 23:31:24 03-03-08 22:19:58 ESCUE HEIGHTS,PENNESHAW ,PENNESHAW MAP 0 0 0 TG130,RIVERSIDE RD BAUDIN BEACH 77YEAR OLD OV,ER CLIFF CONTACT CHARLES VONDUSSA XXXXXXX,10 P1,PENN00 KIS029 SES Loxton

I dont know about you but Loxton sure is a long way from KI :-P

Don't believe the pager website tags...the resources paged were PENN00 (Pennishaw CFS) and KIS029 (Kingscote SES).

[Pipster]

The page looked more like one that had been redirected to someone's pager, rather than a direct page from MFS....

Pip

[chook]

Probably East region Regional Training officer who is based in Loxton.
cheers

[Zippy]

01:22:28   05-03-08   MFS: FROM MURRAY BRIDGE CAPTCHANGE OF QUARTERS TO MFS MURRAY BRIDGE CFS Jervois Info

01:23:35   05-03-08   MFS: JERVOIS CHANGE QUARTERS TO MURR BRIDGE MFS STATION CFSRES CFS Jervois Info

01:33:50   05-03-08   MFS: FROM MURRAY BRIDGE CAPT CHANGE OF QUARTERS TO MFS MURRAY BRIDGE CONFIRM WITH ADELAIDE FIRE*URGMSG CFS Jervois Info

Jervois rings up Adelaide Fire...."Whats a Change of Quarters???".... :roll:

[Heavy Rescue]

MFS: *CFSRES INC012 05/03/08 08:09,RESPOND Private Alarm,LOT 666 RIVERBANKS RD,HILLIER MAP 31 L 4 TG102,PRIVATE DWELLING,DALK19 CFS Dalkeith Response

MFS: *CFSRES INC012 05/03/08 08:21,RESPOND Private Alarm,LOT 666 RIVERBANKS RD,HILLIER MAP 31 L 4 TG102,WITH DALKEITH,GWLR00 CFS Gawler River Response

DALK: *CFSRES: STATION MANNED FOR FIRECALL 05-03-08 08:21 CFS Dalkeith Response

DALK: *CFSRES: MORE CREW REQUIRED FOR THIS INCIDENT 05-03-08 08:24 CFS Dalkeith Response

MFS: *CFSRES INC012 05/03/08 08:36,RESPOND Private Alarm,LOT 666 RIVERBANKS RD,HILLIER MAP 31 L 4 TG102,,GAW359 CONC00 MFS Gawler 359

MFS: *CFSRES INC012 05/03/08 08:36,RESPOND Private Alarm,LOT 666 RIVERBANKS RD,HILLIER MAP 31 L 4 TG102,,GAW359 CONC00 CFS Barossa Group Officers

MFS: *CFSRES INC012 05/03/08 08:45,RESPOND Private Alarm,LOT 666 RIVERBANKS RD,HILLIER MAP 31 L 4 TG102,WITH MFS,ROSE00 CFS Roseworthy Response

MFS: *CFSRES:concordia RESPOND stop, ( for private alarm 05/03/2008 8:48:01 AM CFS Barossa Group Officers Response

MFS: STOP FOR CALL CFS Roseworthy Response (08:51)

Now I did not hear the radio traffic associated with this call so I am only guessing that this was not a going structure fire - if it was and all the other brigades were turned out as a result of an upgrade then please dismiss my further message.

If however this was a standard Private Alarm and the other resources were responded as a result of brigades not being able to get a crew then I will begin my own hypothesis on the incident.

First of all why are Dalkeith being responded to Private Alarm by themsleves, this is a two appliance response which for nearly all EMA brigades would indicate a two brigade response (rural brigades will only ever be paged singularly because BOMS is not setup with their data). EMA brigade zones should be setup with two brigades for any structure fire type incident.

If someone in Dalkeith was switched on enough to realise this should be a dual response call why does it then take 12 minutes to respond another brigade, or if  turning out Gawler River was a result of no crew at Dalkeith then again I ask why does it take 12 minutes to default. Obviously someone must have acknowledged the page with MFS or they would have defaulted them after 4 minutes, so therefore whoever does the acknowledging then takes on the role of ensuring a suitable response occurs, in any case after 4 minutes if you have not heard any appliance respond you should be thinking about defaulting.

After 15 minutes Dalkeith still don't have a crew - no problems we all have those days sometimes, but then MFS from Gawler and Concordia CFS are responded 27 minutes after the initial response. Surely if you push the more crew button after 15 minutes you should be contacting Adelaide Fire immediately to inform them that we cannot respond you had better turnout someone else in our place.

Roseworthy were responded 36 minutes after the inital call, I am assuming this is because no other CFS brigade had actually managed to crew a truck and the MFS  from Gawler were wondering why they were deep in CFS area without them there.

So about 30 minutes after the initial call someone might have actually arrived, god help us if this was a going job.

I have my 'armchair expert' hat firmly attached to my head so I would love for someone involved in this call to fill us in on what actually happened, hopefully it is nothing like I have explained otherwise the whole thing is just an absolute joke.

[alphaone]

I am not conented with the issue raised in the above post in any way, but from what i can gather, Hiller is not CFS area any way.  All previous calls to Hiller have been MFS first off. So the question that should be asked, is why was Dalkeith responded to MFS area in the first place with out MFS going.

[6739264]

Perhaps SAMFS were busy? Their appliance offline?

[Morgan]

Perhaps SAMFS were busy? Their appliance offline?

pizza guy turned up just as call came in :wink:

[Morgan]

TWO workers have been injured, one of them seriously, in a structural collapse at a southern suburbs winery that has spilt one million litres of wine.

A platform supporting a stainless steel tank collapsed on the two men at Wirra Wirra winery, on McMutrie Rd, about 12.30pm, and one was trapped in the wreckage.

The other  was able to free himself and is shaken but not seriously injured, according to paramedics.

The man who was trapped has been freed and is on his way to Flinders Medical Centre with spinal injuries.

SafeWork SA has been advised and police are on the scene.

thats umm rather a lot of wine?! 333 34's worth to be precise :-o

[Comms]

I am not conented with the issue raised in the above post in any way, but from what i can gather, Hiller is not CFS area any way.  All previous calls to Hiller have been MFS first off. So the question that should be asked, is why was Dalkeith responded to MFS area in the first place with out MFS going.

Riverbanks, Hillier, Parr and Angle Rds are all zoned 92B in BOMS. The turnout for a PA to any of those streets in Dalkeith only. Turnout for a SD adds Virginia. That's consistent with the boundaries we have loaded in OziExplorer.

I'd also send Stirling North  :evil:

[Zippy]

Any chance of getting a copy of the Boundaries/responses Layer in the Oziexplorer setup for Comcen?? (Assuming your using the Mt Lofty topographical map ;))

Google Maps would definately say No to Stirling North being responded :P    (283 km – about 3 hours 34 mins)

[24pumper]

MFS: *CFSRES INC052 07/03/08 13:56,RESPOND BUILD IMPACT,462 GREENHILL RD,LINDEN PARK MAP 131 A 1 TG182,TUSMORE BAKERY,EAS020 BURN19 MIT020 GLO441 SES Metro South Response

task has been passed to central region do as power outage at lynton makes roller doors...a manual proposition. SES Metro South Response

I find this concerning that an agency concerened with disaster response doesn't have contingencies to do with power outages, or has a high reliance on electricity to be able to operate and respond.

Do any other brigades out there have similar relainces on electricity, or do they have back up power etc.

Any thoughts

[chook]

All units have generators however most builings are not wired correctly to hook up generator power (yes I know there is a dodgy way but).
A recent request to upgrade our electrical system, so that we can do that & comply with current ohs & electrical standards was knocked back - NO MONEY.
Seems there are higher priorities in other agencies, than complying with state legislation. So its not a lack of planning or professionalism on the part of the units concerned but rather the powers that be!
This soughtof thing makes a mockery of the whole SAFECOM/ESO portfolio!
Anyway cheers before I say anymore!

[pumprescue]

So they don't have a procedure to open doors when the power goes out, so they are unaware of how to change the doors over to manual, hmmm, thank god they aren't an emergency service.......

[Zippy]

 :-o.....have they ever heard of Chains to open the doors,  no need for generators...just good old Hard work using what we have called "arms".

[Ashes]

Saw an SES Unit leaving as we went past this arvo, two people in total? Do they have trouble getting crews to man units as well?

Ashes