Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging

[OMGWTF]

Middletons given their truck up to port elliot a few times before!!!! it's only 5km either side of middleton to goolwa or port elliot!!!!! And they have the group tanker in the station.

And sorry like alot of brigades we've loaned our truck out to crews not from our brigade and it comes back stuffed.

And yes myself and another member picked that truck up from coro tonight.

yes, im aware of the geographical location of middleton and its surrounding brigades, still your not really fixing a problem by removing there fire appliance...

3 appliances, 3 stations, answer seems obvious to me... the cfs attitude of its "our appliance" needs to go, there all state resources.

[Cameron Yelland]

you both have very good points.

Yes they are state resources, people need to let go.

but on the other hand some brigades spend hours putting TLC into the trucks in their station and unless the brigade on the other hand have the same morales then the truck receives no care at all!

very interesting issue!

[chook]

Three things
1, I see merit in both sides of the debate, we were asked to consider lending our primary rescue to another unit until their new one was built & then we would get ours back (I was in another unit at the time but advised the members that this idea sucked!) Eventhough they are a state resource, why should one unit be messed around for the sake of a couple of months? And why should they the get their old one back (which was one of the first in the fleet)instead of a suitable replacement?
2, Why have two appliances gone down in the same brigade with problems that seem major in the middle of the "off peak" season?
3, As the neighbours seem very close why not "man up" on the surrounding brigades trucks (which will cover their area)until theirs are repaired?
Don't know just seems simple issue to fix to me.
cheers

[Footy]

It seems that the simplest issues are never easy to fix...
Maybe we should discuss this idea further??
Or just get over it??

[Alan (Big Al)]

Port Elliot 24 has gone down with a serious plumbing issue ( i Beleive corrosion has led to a hole in the plumbing) which has been considered too expensive to fix. They are earmarked for a new 34 in july?? And their 34 went down with a plumbing issue as well.

Both of these trucks are pushing very close to 20 years of age.

[Zippy]

has the issue been passed onto group then further onto Region?

[Zippy]

MFS: *CFSRES INC057 01/07/08 11:50,RESPOND Fire Alarm,67-69 WAYMOUTH ST,ADELAIDE MAP A A 11 TG182,,STM401 BLP211 ADL204 ADL205 ADL206 AD2090 PPT371 41

Numbers...eat ya heart out...


This has turned out to be a Flooding/Salvage incident. That turned out to be a...i lost track.

[6739264]

Eat my heart out?

Wow...

Its called investigating why the sprinkler system is running, BEFORE shitting yourself and calling in the reinforcements. Its not hard!

[Zippy]

haha....sorry i was going by a previous post of yours a few months back...about MFS's alarm responses.

[6739264]

Yeah? I can write really small as well :P

[Zippy]

Good on you, moving onnnnn  :wink:

13:54:32   01-07-08   (65) THIS IS A LONG TEST MASSAGE FROM STUART AT LINK 0123456789 ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ END OF TEST. Link GRN Test Pager

Nice Spam link, wonder whats up?

[chook]

That was very clever Numbers :-D

[Zippy]

FOR INFORMATION WEATHER CONDITIONS MAY CAUSE SEA LEVELS TO BE HIGHER THAN NORMAL OVER THE WEEKEND POSSIBLY HALF A METRE HIGHER THAN THE HIGHEST TIDE OF THE YEAR FROM CAPTAIN CFS Salisbury Info

[Bagyassfirey]

FOR INFORMATION WEATHER CONDITIONS MAY CAUSE SEA LEVELS TO BE HIGHER THAN NORMAL OVER THE WEEKEND POSSIBLY HALF A METRE HIGHER THAN THE HIGHEST TIDE OF THE YEAR FROM CAPTAIN CFS Salisbury Info

look out salisbury....

[Zippy]

nah rather look out glenelg  AGAIN.

[bajdas]

nah rather look out glenelg  AGAIN.

Nope, not in recent times ... toooo many failsafes on the patawalonga and westlake gates now.

Check http://www.dwlbc.sa.gov.au/urban/patawalonga/system/index.html & click on the current levels (warning it takes a long time to update the chart to realtime data)

The tide chart at http://www.bom.gov.au/oceanography/tides/MAPS/adelaide.shtml does show 2.67m on 20th July at 1747 at Outer Harbor. Basically above 2.6m high tides from tonight to Monday night.

More interested in St Kilda, railyards west of city, showgrounds, torrens rivers and associated creek, airport, etc , for metropolitan flooding.

Because it is still dry, I think the broken water mains is the main flood risk.    :lol:

Also, not much wind forecast to create a storm tide or rain to have large outflows through the estuaries or pipes (eg Onkaparinga River).

Sounds like a lot of fishing could be done this weekend......

[safireservice]

may have been refering to this?
IDS20235
AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT - BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY
SOUTH AUSTRALIA REGIONAL OFFICE

STORM TIDE ADVICE for Gulf St Vincent and Spencer Gulf
Issued at 4:05 pm on Friday, 18 July 2008

The weather conditions are expected to cause sea levels to be higher than
indicated by tide tables during the weekend. Sea levels along parts of Spencer
Gulf and Gulf St Vincent are likely to be around half a metre or more higher
than the highest tide of the year with the afternoon/evening high tides on
Saturday and Sunday.

At the Port Adelaide Outer Harbor tide gauge, sea levels between 3.2 to 3.5
metres [local gauge datum] are possible with the high tides on both Saturday and
Sunday. 

This advice will be updated at or before 10:00 am Saturday.

Note: A change in the definition of the datum occurred on 1 January 2001. A tide
level of 3.5 metres in 2001 is equivalent to a tide level of 3.77 metres on the
old scale.

[Robert-Robert34]

Surfs up dudes  8-) :-P

[chook]

1909193 16:50:35 25-07-08 NO MORE CALLS DUTY OFFICER IS AWARE MFS IN CFFS AREA WITHOUT NOTIFCATION FROM DUTY OFFICER CFS Dalkeith Info
Is this a real problem?
Don't rip my head off with replys - just curious as we all have "turf problems" & they are the full time service & everyone doesn't always meet the standard 24/7.
so whats the big deal?
cheers

[safireservice]

If it happened in reverse heads would roll!

[chook]

Yeah true,however it happens to us all - for example early last Wednesday morning a major MVA happened deep within our turf but we didn't get responded ADL fire called Moorook, Glossop & Barmera CFS, Barmera SES and ambulances as far away as Renmark yet Berri SAMFS & us weren't invited! (I know it's not strickly MFS area but they were the closest)
I know for a fact that if the shoe was on the other foot those concerned would cut sick :-D (It's happened before & at least we had the courtisy of telling them!) I'm not sure if the new unit manager will do anything- nolonger not my problem.
All I was asking is this such a big deal? As they have trouble getting crews occasionally.
cheers

[Zippy]

maybe we could think about it the otherway,  if we dont get responded..its a good thing because we can go about our lives as normal....

They gets enough calls as it is...  dont know why they need to have a hissy fit...  Is it just getting to there heads???

[chook]

Not wrong Zippy, it was filtered freezing last Wednesday morning :-D I wasn't upset we were not called was a warmer in bed :-D
cheers

[safireservice]

I suppose it just comes down to common courtesy and correct procedure i.e notifying the respective service of the event.

[pumprescue]

I wouldn't get to concerned about it, are those same 100 people ringing up going to turn out so they don't consistently fail to respond, CFS people like that really annoy me, they are quick to carry on when something like this happens but you never see them when the truck needs to get out the door at 3am.
Who knows it could have been a road that led onto a CFS area, might have been a nothing call, why turn someone else out, just deal with. I am sure if 421 went to a call in 43's area they aren't going to ring each other and cry. Worry about getting out the door to the calls you DO get responded to  :x