The new site for MFS Seaford is located on Seaford Road adjacent to the old railway overpass.
Sign is now up on the block :wink:
Building Tender now out closing 19th September 2008
Work comprises a single storey steel framed two appliance bay fire station of approximately 860m2 including administration, training, equipment and kitchen areas including all site works. DTEI Prequalification Category 3 and InSkill SA applies.
Single Storey?! No poles!
All new stations will not have POLES...Due to OHSW.....
Quote from: bill - Hynam CFS on August 29, 2008, 05:52:18 AM
All new stations will not have POLES...Due to OHSW.....
In the East, they put poles IN because of OH&S reasons!
Mind you, not that many 2 storey stations getting around Adeliade these days. :(
QuoteMind you, not that many 2 storey stations getting around Adeliade these days.
Yeh numbers, arent we urban sprawl shockers of the nation?!?!?!
Adelaide Could be Half its Size, How, Think.
Seaford might still be Farms and Country hillbillies if we managed our land development better.
Quote from: Zippy on August 29, 2008, 02:48:07 PM
QuoteMind you, not that many 2 storey stations getting around Adeliade these days.
Yeh numbers, arent we urban sprawl shockers of the nation?!?!?!
Adelaide Could be Half its Size, How, Think.
Seaford might still be Farms and Country hillbillies if we managed our land development better.
Haha, like we need to be any more compact.
Quote from: 6739264 on August 29, 2008, 02:58:23 PM
Quote from: Zippy on August 29, 2008, 02:48:07 PM
QuoteMind you, not that many 2 storey stations getting around Adeliade these days.
Yeh numbers, arent we urban sprawl shockers of the nation?!?!?!
Adelaide Could be Half its Size, How, Think.
Seaford might still be Farms and Country hillbillies if we managed our land development better.
Haha, like we need to be any more compact.
I could even say Happy Valley, might acutally be Green Pastures with Carbon Dioxide producing Cattle! Cow on Road Incidents for ya boys ;)
Area's like Rose Park, Prospect, Goodwood, Woodville...should already have 8-10 story high apartment buildings.
8-10 story building, nah, i like my backyard and space, but decent roads would be nice, and maybe a train line for all those down deep south.
Quote from: 6739264 on August 29, 2008, 02:58:23 PM
Haha, like we need to be any more compact.
<shrug> failing to be more compact is slowly bankrupting the state.
Notice too that the lands being built on were the food-producing areas,
while the protected lands are 'natural scrub'... (very clever, that!)
:-P
Come up my way guys, there more than enough space.....
Been there done that, and no beach.
Who needs a beach, weve got a lake, negitive part no waves positive part no sharks.
...Meanwhile, back at the point....
Bye Bye Seafood Pumper! Hope you enjoy having a 34!
On the flip side Seaford, if you fundraise REAL HARD and save REAL HARD over many years , you can have any truck you want! :roll:
Quote from: jaff on September 22, 2008, 01:09:40 PM
On the flip side Seaford, if you fundraise REAL HARD and save REAL HARD over many years , you can have any truck you want! :roll:
Ahh, you can almost taste the jealousy can't you?
:P
How about a Seagrave Quint?
Quote from: CFS_Firey on September 22, 2008, 01:54:30 PM
Quote from: jaff on September 22, 2008, 01:09:40 PM
On the flip side Seaford, if you fundraise REAL HARD and save REAL HARD over many years , you can have any truck you want! :roll:
Ahh, you can almost taste the jealousy can't you?
:P
CFS Firey, that maybe a correct, that is to say its a known known, but we also know there are known unknowns, that is to say, we know there are things we do not know, but there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know!
Though in this case I was just once again taking the piss. AAH humour the gift you can give to all, but can only be accepted by a few! :-D
Atleast any job that goes to 2 bells in the Seafood area will be handled easily with Seafood Pumper and SAMFS Pumps! ;)
Quote from: 6739264 on September 22, 2008, 02:15:30 PM
How about a Seagrave Quint?
Now we are talking mate!!.. 'Quints' and 'bells'.. Some days you just surprise me numbers.. :p
(Just messing.. Would die for a Seagrave Quint!! :D ) ..
I know you guys enjoy stirring reactions and the like, but really, are these comments about the Seaford brigade necessary, or are they going to help in anyway.
It would be great if this forum could stay decent, and become more about fact, not about people stirring scheiße for the sake of it.
Mods, Please note, It would be greatly appreciated by me, and I'm pretty sure everyone else at seaford, if you could either lock this thread, or remove all the rubbish posts that are not based on FACT.
Quote from: RescueHazmat on September 22, 2008, 05:03:41 PM
Quote from: 6739264 on September 22, 2008, 02:15:30 PM
How about a Seagrave Quint?
Now we are talking mate!!.. 'Quints' and 'bells'.. Some days you just surprise me numbers.. :p
(Just messing.. Would die for a Seagrave Quint!! :D ) ..
Not all of us have to do a few runs with US Departements to know what we are talking about! ;)
Quote from: Pixie on September 22, 2008, 06:01:53 PM
I know you guys enjoy stirring reactions and the like, but really, are these comments about the Seaford brigade necessary, or are they going to help in anyway.
Necessary? YES!
Helpful? NO!
Toughen up! Its all harmless, would you like a tissue?
hahaha well said numbers !!
Happy to moderate if something is identified as hurtful or otherwise inappropriate. If it's meant as light hearted fun then all's ok......
Please let me know if there are specific posts which have caused offence.
Thanks
Quote from: 6739264 on September 22, 2008, 06:23:10 PM
Quote from: RescueHazmat on September 22, 2008, 05:03:41 PM
Quote from: 6739264 on September 22, 2008, 02:15:30 PM
How about a Seagrave Quint?
Now we are talking mate!!.. 'Quints' and 'bells'.. Some days you just surprise me numbers.. :p
(Just messing.. Would die for a Seagrave Quint!! :D ) ..
Not all of us have to do a few runs with US Departements to know what we are talking about! ;)
Quote from: Pixie on September 22, 2008, 06:01:53 PM
I know you guys enjoy stirring reactions and the like, but really, are these comments about the Seaford brigade necessary, or are they going to help in anyway.
Necessary? YES!
Helpful? NO!
Toughen up! Its all harmless, would you like a tissue?
Just be careful though mate, apparently its easy to 'slip' when on the fireground.. Dont want to bring all these US terms into our vocab do we? ;) :p
Quote from: RescueHazmat on September 22, 2008, 08:28:27 PM
Just be careful though mate, apparently its easy to 'slip' when on the fireground.. Dont want to bring all these US terms into our vocab do we? ;) :p
No slippage here! They're only ever used in a very scathingly sarcastic manner to demonstrate the sheer idiocy of it all! :cry:
Haha.. Fair enough..
- I'd still love a Seagrave Quint though.. ;)
Just out of curiosity.
will seaford still have an area as such? or will they only respond to upgraded jobs with mfs or large rural fires in the district? or will they disband altogether?
what trucks will they have?
Quote from: Cameron Yelland on September 23, 2008, 05:01:13 PM
Just out of curiosity.
will seaford still have an area as such? or will they only respond to upgraded jobs with mfs or large rural fires in the district? or will they disband altogether?
what trucks will they have?
Dunno, no-one seems to have a hard and fast answer to that one(or they are going to say). Dont know how they are going to go with the MFS station only about 500? metres up the road. One would think* that they would perhaps as someone eluded to be downgrades to a 34? or 34P. Time will tell (or someone else will!)
Quote from: safireservice on September 23, 2008, 06:54:38 PM
Quote from: Cameron Yelland on September 23, 2008, 05:01:13 PM
Just out of curiosity.
will seaford still have an area as such? or will they only respond to upgraded jobs with mfs or large rural fires in the district? or will they disband altogether?
what trucks will they have?
Dunno, no-one seems to have a hard and fast answer to that one(or they are going to say). Dont know how they are going to go with the MFS station only about 500? metres up the road. One would think* that they would perhaps as someone eluded to be downgrades to a 34? or 34P. Time will tell (or someone else will!)
I can't see any issue (apart from outcry from Seafood CFS members) with them being given a 34P and being relegated to Rural/Semi Urban. With multiple MFS stations overing the area that Seafood CFS once had, I see no need for them to exist in their current setup. No doubt they will whinge and moan about it, but in the end it will have nothing to do with community benefit and everything to do with some blokes have their big trucks and jollies taken from them.
Quote from: safireservice on September 23, 2008, 06:54:38 PM
Quote from: Cameron Yelland on September 23, 2008, 05:01:13 PM
Just out of curiosity.
will seaford still have an area as such? or will they only respond to upgraded jobs with mfs or large rural fires in the district? or will they disband altogether?
what trucks will they have?
Dunno, no-one seems to have a hard and fast answer to that one(or they are going to say). Dont know how they are going to go with the MFS station only about 500? metres up the road. One would think* that they would perhaps as someone eluded to be downgrades to a 34? or 34P. Time will tell (or someone else will!)
I know nothing about what the plans are by those in charge of these things (assuming there are plans of course)... but I don't see it being that much different except they stop going to all the fixed alarms except when MFS need assistance. They will still have the same "rural" area they have now. I see no reason why they would loose their pumper either, I would have thought they have a good argument to keep it (especially since they already have it and are apparently happy with it). Similar position to Morphett Vale, Burnside and Salisbury really, and not too different from many others like Athelstone (or even Victor, Murray Bridge etc) either I would have thought.
Pretty much spot on Darius,
Seaford will have a rather small primary response area, but the brigade will no longer be responded to single appliance rubbish bin etc. type fires.
will still be on the page for all incident types that require two or more trucks in "our"(Seaford MFS) area.
rural response will stay the same.
as far as trucks go, I'm pretty sure none of our fireys would argue with HQ giving us a well thought out and well designed Urban/Rural Pumper. But from what i have seen, the most suitable appliance setup for our station is what we have now, although, the Dennis is beginning to show its age.
Pixie
BTW numbers, there is only 1 person who refers to seaford station as Seefood Station, which shows that you are obviously a crank and listen to your scanner way too much!
QuoteSeaford will have a rather small primary response area, but the brigade will no longer be responded to single appliance rubbish bin etc. type fires.
That should definitely help reduce the number of nuisance calls, and build morale for responding to more important calls. Id love to see a paid crew respond to the tree downs in my area. :evil:
Quote from: Pixie on September 26, 2008, 09:18:28 AM
Pretty much spot on Darius,
Seaford will have a rather small primary response area, but the brigade will no longer be responded to single appliance rubbish bin etc. type fires.
will still be on the page for all incident types that require two or more trucks in "our"(Seaford MFS) area.
rural response will stay the same.
as far as trucks go, I'm pretty sure none of our fireys would argue with HQ giving us a well thought out and well designed Urban/Rural Pumper. But from what i have seen, the most suitable appliance setup for our station is what we have now, although, the Dennis is beginning to show its age.
Pixie
BTW numbers, there is only 1 person who refers to seaford station as Seefood Station, which shows that you are obviously a crank and listen to your scanner way too much!
How will losing the single truck calls affect your call numbers? Would it be losing 50 calls or 150 calls a year? It does sound good for morale to lose some of the scheiße calls, but do you still get the Alarms at 2am?
You might find that there is more than the ONE person that calls your brigade Seafood CFS. Its not a huge leap in logic from Seaford to Seafood, especially after you meet some of the members. I dare say that I've been calling you Seafood CFS for longer than you've been part of the Brigade. I WISH I could have a scanner to listen to, while I sit in my POV with my RX2700 LED lightbar, Wigwags, and Warrior Dash lights, chasing smoke 24/7, and being a wacker!
Meanwhile back on topic the only sign of MFS is the sign on the land where the station is going to be built.
Seaford are quite capable of getting 2 appliances to a job as evidenced yesterday.
We all have our bad days for crewing that goes with the territory :-P
I wouldn't say quite capable, we can all eventually get every truck out, depends how long we want to wait and if we want to take a rougue DGO on the truck...I guess you can call that efficient crewing....
I really don't care what they end up doing at Seafood. I just care that my brigade is staffed correctly and gets its trucks out the door with appropriatley trained crews, you can have as many rural helmeted people on the truck as you like, still doesn't help.
By the way pixie, it was nick named Seafood long before you joined the CFS, in fact I remember the day they moved from Saltfleet st we started calling them that..... :lol:
I should think Seaford will only remain in C, B and A class responses.
And possibly in some grassfire responses, depending on location/incident type.
Ill have to agree with the boys Pixie, when we moved from Pt Noarlunga to Seaford (or food :-D) we got the new nick name. Its some harmless fun. mmmmmm seafood.
The Seaford MFS site now has temporary fencing around it and they have begun digging holes / earthworks.
Found some details at http://www.mfs.sa.gov.au/site/about_us/fire_stations/metropolitan_stations/seaford_station.jsp
How's the station coming along?
coming along quite well, slowly, but from the looks of it it is going to be a pretty nice station!
pretty much all that has been done is the earthworks, and a rather large retaining wall...(the cost of that wall alone would have probably built someone a new truck, or a brand new CFS station)
MFS: *CFSRES INC038 03/02/09 10:57,RESPOND To,41 SEAFORD RD,SEAFORD MEADOWS MAP 195 K 13 TG134,BUILDING SITE, COMPACTION ROLLER ALIGHT,SEAF00 CDN431
Does that count as the first job for the Seaford station.
haha...that took a while for me to get lol
Pixie, your thoughts???
Was listening, :-P CFS arrived well in advance of MFS. :mrgreen: Nice quick response from seaford.
SEAFORD CFS, PROTECTING THE COMMUNITY WHEN THE MFS FIRE STATION SITE CATCHS FIRE
and then the next day not being able to respond to 2 calls, so yeah..... :roll:
Quote from: Darren on February 05, 2009, 06:19:37 AM
and then the next day not being able to respond to 2 calls, so yeah..... :roll:
Interesting, it looked like their truck on the grass near the old farmhouse at 8:45pm well before MFS were turning off Commercial Rd.
My mistake, it was yesterday, oh well, what I am getting at, vols, one day its good, the next its bad. We are all in the same boat as vols.
Work is well underway at Seaford further info can be found here http://www.samfs.sa.gov.au/site/about_us/fire_stations/metropolitan_stations/seaford_station.jsp
Just a ? if seaford mabe getting rid of there Heavy pumper because of MFS then what about burnside there more urban than seafood just a question people dont get your nickers in a knot over it btw
Got the crankies about Burnside eh?
Ah well... Just relax and have a latte.
I hope they're fighting to keep their pumper there for as long as possible.
...lol
Good grammar & English must not be a pre requisite for getting into the Army. As long as they can shoot a gun, there will be no need to know how to spell it. :wink:
Quote from: JC on June 11, 2009, 09:22:52 AM
Good grammar & English must not be a pre requisite for getting into the Army. As long as they can shoot a gun, there will be no need to know how to spell it. :wink:
Go easy on our "wanna be grunt", he's got issues!
1 he's always putting his foot in his mouth!
2 he's always shooting his mouth off!
3 he shoots himself in the foot all the time!
Sorta like a viscious circle! :-D
Quote from: jaff on June 11, 2009, 09:44:57 AM
Quote from: JC on June 11, 2009, 09:22:52 AM
Good grammar & English must not be a pre requisite for getting into the Army. As long as they can shoot a gun, there will be no need to know how to spell it. :wink:
Go easy on our "wanna be grunt", he's got issues!
1 he's always putting his foot in his mouth!
2 he's always shooting his mouth off!
3 he shoots himself in the foot all the time!
Sorta like a viscious circle! :-D
Classic. :lol:
Yeah he's got all the makings of a great fire fighter... maybe even could go for a SACFS paid job!
:|...
Well the building is going up at a fast rate and looking better every week
Quote from: SA Firey on November 29, 2009, 03:25:00 PM
Well the building is going up at a fast rate and looking better every week
Heard it will be operational early January
The driveway was poured today, starting to look like a real station now.
Our info is the December 15th date has been pushed back to early January now as well.
We're looking forward to having some new neighbours and are planning to conduct as much joint training as we can with them.
You mean your looking forward to having some neighbours....
IF AVAILABLE MEET AT ALDINGA STATION BY 19:30 TOMORROW FOR INFO SESSION BY DANIEL AUSTEN ON THE NEW SEAFORD METS. CHEERS GREG CFS McLaren Vale Info
Interesting times ahead and the red trucks have been seen surfing around McLaren Vale too, maybe the lure of the 260 shop retail mecca will see the area expanded?
:-D Apparently neighbours don't get on well so your stuffed with training! :evil:
Probably checking out mclaren vale as they will be dual respodning into mclaren vale.
1800160 08:33:41 21-01-10 MFS: Call Sign SEA469 changed to WDV241. N MFS Brooklyn Park 451
1800160 08:32:56 21-01-10 MFS: Call Sign WDV241 changed to SEA469. N MFS Brooklyn Park 451
We have lift off, about time to !!
So with the station operational today does that mean Seaford CFS technically now have no area?
A lonely Scania 93M Seaford 469 waiting for th first call.
Quote from: Army_emergency_responder on June 10, 2009, 10:42:44 PM
Just a ? if seaford mabe getting rid of there Heavy pumper because of MFS then what about burnside there more urban than seafood just a question people dont get your nickers in a knot over it btw
*Knickers perhaps??
Perhaps post over a keyboard and a computer, works better than a 16 year old girl's Nokia.
From what I understand, the Legislative Responsibility for Zone 83 & BOMS database all changes over to SAMFS on 1/2/2010... up until then I am pretty sure Seaford469 will be responding in place of CDN431/439 to all of out calls...
Station looks good though, and from the sounds of it, looks like we have some great crews from SAMFS that have been stationed there, which should make the transition nice and easy.
As far as appliances go, Seaford will remain as is for the time being.
Can't wait to finally turn out to a job with them.
and ya first stop call from them too.... sorry friendly jab, no malice intended :-D
MFS: *CFSRES INC073 23/01/10 20:57,RESPOND DOMESTIC FIRE,21 HUNTINGDALE RD,NOARLUNGA DOWNS MAP 196 B 2 TG134,,SEA469 SEAF00 CDN431
CFS Mawson Group Officers Response
Seafords first job I believe and K77 out on arrival.
Quote from: SA Firey on January 23, 2010, 08:09:58 PM
MFS: *CFSRES INC073 23/01/10 20:57,RESPOND DOMESTIC FIRE,21 HUNTINGDALE RD,NOARLUNGA DOWNS MAP 196 B 2 TG134,,SEA469 SEAF00 CDN431
CFS Mawson Group Officers Response
Seafords first job I believe and K77 out on arrival.
MFS: *CFSRES INC041 23/01/10 12:29,RESPOND Private Alarm,UNIT 2 132 WHEATSHEAF RD,MORPHETT VALE MAP 186 L 5 TG182,,OHH421 MRPH00 SEA469
17:48:41 31-01-10 AS FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT MFS WILL TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE NEW RESPONSE AREA SIGNED LT1 CFS Seaford Info