Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging

[Morgan]

Simple tell all the services to stick to the SOP's and send what is required by them,then everyone on here can rest their typing fingers and stop having a whinge

wrong they'll revert to whinging about not having anything to whinge about!!!

[Darius]

A typical case of people jumping up and down over a pager message, that had NOTHING to do with them..

Indeed but that has been pointed out here many many times and it makes no difference.  BTW in this case the appropriate enquiries/action has already been taken (before it was mentioned on here, so all the chat back and forward has been a waste of time, surprise surprise).

[Footy]

10:58:39 04-09-08 MFS: *CFSRES INC016 04/09/08 10:58,RESPOND GRASS FIRE,TORRENS RD,BROMPTON MAP 105 L 11 TG182,STARTED BY TRAIN AT RAIL CROSSING,SAIR55 PPT371 CFS State Air Desk

 11:25:07 04-09-08 MFS: *CFSRES INC018 04/09/08 11:24,RESPOND RUBBISH FIRE,OVINGHAM RAILWAY STATION,DEVONPORT TCE,OVINGHAM MAP 105 Q 10 TG182,,SAIR55 PPT371 CFS State Air Desk

12:30:52 04-09-08 MFS: *CFSRES INC021 04/09/08 12:30,RESPOND GRASS FIRE,OVINGHAM RAILWAY STATION,DEVONPORT TCE,OVINGHAM MAP 105 Q 10 TG182,,SAIR55 PPT371 CFS State Air Desk

 13:49:15 04-09-08 MFS: *CFSRES INC027 04/09/08 13:48,RESPOND GRASS FIRE,OVINGHAM RAILWAY STATION,DEVONPORT TCE,OVINGHAM MAP 105 Q 10 TG182,,SAIR55 ADL203 CFS State Air Desk

Are these all related?

[Gilly]

Rail grinding perhaps.

[Darren]

Yeah it is track grinding, they train they are using has its own firefighting equipment, but it seems they don't get everything.

[OMGWTF]

all personal your p.p.e. check are over due ,it is cfs policy that this be done every month or no workcover claim will be approved because you are slack kangarilla captain - KANGARILLA CAPTAIN 9/09/2008 3:36:33 PM CFS Kangarilla Info



whats this all about then?

[rescue5271]

15:37:09 09-09-08 all personal your p.p.e. check are over due ,it is cfs policy that this be done every month or no workcover claim will be approved because you are slack kangarilla captain - KANGARILLA CAPTAIN 9/09/2008 3:36:33 PM CFS Kangarilla Info

Sounds like the captain is not happy and when has it been CFS policy? tell me how many ppl chrck their PPE and as for the workcover claim I think he has it a little wrong.......may be its a Mawson group policy???

[Zippy]

yeh i think he has it a lil wrong too....Must be all the Cows on road...

[CFS_Firey]

Workcover would be well within their right to refuse a claim if the person involved wasn't wearing the required PPE by their own choice, and wearing it would have prevented the injury.
I can't comment on this situation though.

[Footy]

not wearing is a little different to not checking tho isnt it??

[Cameron Yelland]

or being refused ppe when it is damaged     

[6739264]

Sounds like the captain is not happy and when has it been CFS policy? tell me how many ppl chrck their PPE and as for the workcover claim I think he has it a little wrong.......may be its a Mawson group policy???

I check my PPE every week at training, give it the quick once over. If if been running through scrub, or at a structure fire then its gets the once over as well. Gloves, and other small gear also gets the heave-ho as soon as its defective...

PPE is there to save you life, if your gear is busted just order more!

[Darren]

or being refused ppe when it is damaged     

If that ever happens, put in a near miss form and go straight to the region, that should NEVER happen with defective PPE !! 

[chook]

Workcover would be hard pressed to prove you didn't check your PPE & they wouldn't bother anyway. And just a slight correction in SA Workcover don't approve or reject claims - the claims agent EML does & they will just about approve any claim (hence the big debt). Having said that CFS like all government departments are Self Insured - so it's not Workcover/EML accepting or rejecting claims its SAFECOM! So as the employer and the claims agent they may be a little more "aggressive" about claims management (most self insurers are).
Finally unless you run a log for each piece off PPE, How would anyone know?
cheers

[RescueHazmat]

Sounds like the captain is not happy and when has it been CFS policy? tell me how many ppl chrck their PPE and as for the workcover claim I think he has it a little wrong.......may be its a Mawson group policy???

I check my PPE every week at training, give it the quick once over. If if been running through scrub, or at a structure fire then its gets the once over as well. Gloves, and other small gear also gets the heave-ho as soon as its defective...

PPE is there to save you life, if your gear is busted just order more!

Agree with numbers. And likewise.

[KDOO_BTO]

or being refused ppe when it is damaged     

How about when groups refuse to supply new equipment too. Then there is times when at training courses the participants are told certain equipment should be on the their truck and when its not they are told they are not getting the equipment because they don't'need it'

[Darren]

Again shouldn't be happening, you MUST have the minimum equipment, if your group refuses then take it to the next level. In this day and age there is no excuse for have sub-standard or not having equipment. Gone are the days when its up to what the Group Officer "thinks" you need.

[Zippy]

Hear Hear.

[Footy]

that is so true
i know a while back there was talks of audits of the equipment held by brigades, and some people were worried that stuff there crew had bought or acquired over the years would be taken if it is not standard stowage, but i think it needs to be looked at in the sense of well that stuff is fun, but lets get everything else up to scratch so you are actually safe when you go on the fireground

[bajdas]

19:53:13 12-09-08 MFS: *CFSRES INC074 12/09/08 19:52,RESPOND Vehicle Fire,BLACKWOOD RAILWAY STATION,STATION RD,BLACKWOOD MAP 154 P 5 TG146,TRAIN FIRE - BOGEY UNDER BULK DIESEL TAN,K - WITH BLKWD & EDEN,BELR00

No other pager messages seen on the website, so I assume this was a minor incident....but if it was a major incident.....

[firemansam]

919362   16:59:38   13-09-08   MFS: *CFSRES INC064 13/09/08 16:59,RESPOND GRASS FIRE,PANITYA NTH RD PINNAROO CFS,PINNAROO MAP 0 0 0 TG204,URGMSG, ASSIST MARABEL,PINN19
CFS Mallee Group Officers response
1919371   16:59:36   13-09-08   MFS: *CFSRES INC064 13/09/08 16:59,RESPOND GRASS FIRE,PANITYA NTH RD PINNAROO CFS,PINNAROO MAP 0 0 0 TG204,URGMSG, ASSIST MARABEL,PINN19
CFS Pinnaroo response
1919362   16:59:03   13-09-08   MFS: *CFSRES INC064 13/09/08 16:58,RESPOND GRASS FIRE,PANITYA NTH RD PINNAROO CFS,PINNAROO MAP 0 0 0 TG204,ASSIST MARABEL AT GRASSFIRE,PINN19
CFS Mallee Group Officers response
1919371   16:58:59   13-09-08   MFS: *CFSRES INC064 13/09/08 16:58,RESPOND GRASS FIRE,PANITYA NTH RD PINNAROO CFS,PINNAROO MAP 0 0 0 TG204,ASSIST MARABEL AT GRASSFIRE,PINN19
CFS Pinnaroo response
1919362   17:00:42   13-09-08   MFS: ASSIST MARABEL AT GRASSFIRE, PANIYA NTH RD*URGMSG
CFS Mallee Group Officers response
1919371   17:00:40   13-09-08   MFS: ASSIST MARABEL AT GRASSFIRE, PANIYA NTH RD*URGMSG
CFS Pinnaroo response
1919371   17:03:20   13-09-08   PINN: RESPOND PINNAROO STATION SIREN MANUALLY ACTIVATED CFSRES
CFS Pinnaroo response
1919362   17:03:19   13-09-08   PINN: RESPOND PINNAROO STATION SIREN MANUALLY ACTIVATED CFSRES
CFS Mallee Group Officers response

Think this is a very broken turn out, marrabel and pinnaroo are nowhere near eachother.

[Zippy]

That is a very sus turnout...cos even Marrabel wasnt even out at a job.

Hmm....i think they were meant to be paged to Assist MURRAYVILLE CFA  

Marrabel and Murrayville have a vauge audible similarity,  so yeah it was probably a CFS/CFA EMA response.

[adelaide_medic]

ALDG INFO: SEVERE WX WARNING ISSUED BY BOM FOR AM, MLR, LEP, KI, USE, LSE, EEP, MN, MUR. DAMAGING WINDS AVG 60-70KPH WITH GUSTS IN EXCESS 90KPH DUE ADELAIDE 0200 HRS. GRANT. CFS Aldgate Info

looks like we'll be in for some windy weather tonight.

SES LOP is at Yellow!

[Zippy]

woaaaahhhh, ill be sure to sleep extra nicely tonight.

[21337]

1919094   13:49:00   14-09-08   MFS: *CFSRES INC040 14/09/08 13:48,RESPOND DOMESTIC FIRE,13 PERSIC ST,LARGS NORTH MAP 79 K 13 TG182,FIRE IN ROOF,LG2814 LGS281 PAD251 MFS 2814 Marine

1919074   13:57:41   14-09-08   MFS: *CFSRES INC040 14/09/08 13:57,RESPOND DOMESTIC FIRE,13 PERSIC ST,LARGS NORTH MAP 79 K 13 TG182,FIRE IN ROOF,ADL206 41 WDV243 WDV249 MFS Car 41

any details? marine sent to a house address and no other calls?