Makes you wonder why Burnside. No real area to speak of. Places like Morphett Vale, Salisbury etc have far more risks in the respective areas.
A little bit of info about the Morphett Vale primary response area.
Some of the risks we look after are.
The BRL Hardy's bottling plant, this is an A class risk and one of the biggest bottling plants in Australia (over 20,000 litres of stored spirits on site)
Seven schools, including a few three story buildings
Three large nursing homes, including one with a lift
Two Shopping Centres
A number of factories in the Hackham industrial area, as well as two Mushroom farms
Over 20,000 residents
Current developments include a couple of hundred houses in three new estates, a couple more three story buildings in one of our schools and a new 110 bed three story aged care facility ($14,000,000 project).
We regularly respond into Happy Valley and Seaford CFS areas (including the new 21,500 sq meter shopping center at Seaford), and are automatic response to jobs at Colonades, Port Stanvac Oil Refinery and any factories at Lonsdale. We also basically become the second truck for Christie Downs MFS when one of their pumps is out.
Our area consists of about a dozen premises with boosters, including a six headed one.
It would be nice to be able to provide boosting capabilities with our own appliance but as we have found out in the past the 24P just isn't up to it. Something with at least a 750 Gpm pump is definitely needed, whether it is two wheel drive or four drive is still up for debate. A type 2 would be nice but we have to remember that we still have some significant rural risks, including the Onkaparinga Gorge (A Class).
For info in the last financial year we responded to 301 incidents, out of those 179 (60 %) were Urban, 68 (23 %) were other (MVA's, Hazmat, Rescues etc) and 53 (17 %) were rural.
Last year was slightly quieter than previous years with the number of rural jobs in summer down a bit. Interestingly this financial year we have already done 106 jobs, if we keep going at this rate we will be on track to respond to 425 this year.