Hydrants

[RescueHazmat]

We have the plate cover lifters on all our appliances :wink:

I think the plate lifter being referred to is the SAMFS spring syle lifter.  Quite different to SACFS plate keys and heavy plate lifters.

[SA Firey]

How do you like this hydrant

[Blue]

What the-?  :?

Where abouts is that SA Firey? Looks like the Adelaide Hills somewhere, nice big old blue gum? Hmmm....wooden marker posts returning from whence they came....at least no one is nicking off with that one in a hurry  :lol:

[backburn]

We have 3 hydrant out side a High School and a Booster box and they all do not work. So There is about 300 kids in danger and has been reported about 10 times but still not fixed.

[Zippy]

probably should try and report it to someone higher in the chain  :?  that sounds damn serious.

[SA Firey]

What the-?  :?

Where abouts is that SA Firey? Looks like the Adelaide Hills somewhere, nice big old blue gum? Hmmm....wooden marker posts returning from whence they came....at least no one is nicking off with that one in a hurry  :lol:

Main Street Birdwood, Sharn :wink:

[Blue]

Main Street Birdwood, Sharn :wink:

Ah, should have guessed by the bark at the base - clearly a Birdwood Eucalyptus leucoxylon ssp leucoxylon. LOL

Did this hydrant thread get resolved? What is the appropriate way to go about requests for fixing? I hear so many stories about dodgy / misaligned / broken / unidentifiable / bituminised plugs, its a wonder we find any water at all for going house fires  :|

[Ashes]

I would like to get one up here that I could complain about.  22Kms from the CBD and no mains water...........

Ashes

[Blue]

Difference being that for that area you are prepared for a complete lack of water and are already responding tankers and such for a going job. In the middle of an urban area you expect a hydrant or a plug to do its thing. Or maybe I've just answered my own question - never rely on them, call for the second appliance to get water reagrdless LOL  :lol:

[SA- Private- Contractor]

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[Zippy]

nah it would be the job of SA Water to fix those hydrants on the road.  Whats the situation with them now Backburn?  fixed yet?   HANG ON...this thread is a YEAR old...haha....FIXED YET?!

[SA- Private- Contractor]

REMOVED 18-07-08

[Pipster]

Not all hydrants are SA Water.... in the adjoining area to my brigade is one (we don't have any!)  is a privately owned hydrant.....

We have no SA Water mains in the bulk of the area....actually, we have bugger all mains water of any sort in the area!!

At least this year, the dams are full....!

Pip

[Alan J]

Did this hydrant thread get resolved? What is the appropriate way to go about requests for fixing? I hear so many stories about dodgy / misaligned / broken / unidentifiable / bituminised plugs, its a wonder we find any water at all for going house fires  :|

I reported a bunch of defective FPs in our area a few years ago.
SA Water referred me to United Water - said that operation of the network had been
contracted out. United didn't want to accept it at first - said that FPs weren't
included in the contract. This was fairly shortly after SA Water started contracting
out to United, so there were a few little items not sorted.

In the end, United depot up Birdood/Oakbank way took the complaint & fixed most of
the FPs. =Wouldn't= fix any of the ones which required major surgery & shutting off
the trunk main.  But we got 16 out of 20 unusable FPs back on-line in just a few weeks.
The other 4 had useable FPs within a hundred metres, and are mostly on blind bends in
the middle of the road.... so we can live with that.

Cheers

[Zippy]

ah the woodside SA water Depot??    I believe u would be referring to SA Water,  didn't know United Water do stuff outside the Greater Metro Area.

[backburn]

nah it would be the job of SA Water to fix those hydrants on the road.  Whats the situation with them now Backburn?  fixed yet?   HANG ON...this thread is a YEAR old...haha....FIXED YET?!

hahahahaha fixed yet      no way they say not there job they have been like it for over three years

[Zippy]

hmm...it is there job.....they are just slack...

[SA- Private- Contractor]

REMOVED 18-07-08