SA Firefighter

Quote from: Edster on September 13, 2009, 11:51:15 AM
Stirling dont cover NSA for resuce its either Burnside or Athelstone and Stirling can be responded as a back up.

Assuming NSA is Norton Summit Ashton? As per green book:
Norton Summit is Athlestone with Burnside as backup
Ashton is Burnside with Stirling as backup.

All of our other vehicles are london round, so we have adaptors for the stortz, that will be left on permanently. We may change over to london round fittings, if the adaptors are a pain in the filtered.

was that norwood, now beulah park 21?

Hi all

Appliance arrived at the station at 2:30pm today, and is going to MFS engineering to get radios fitted, and a few minor issues sorted out.
CFS Vehicles and Infrastructure were involved, managing the contractural side of things, as well as the communications with the builders etc. The brigade was responsible for the design and the operational issues, with the approval of CFS.

Final cost has not been finalised yet, however it fell within the anticipated budget. Please call me for any further info on the cost side of things. 0402 629 246.

Tom Gill
Burnside.

more...

New Burnside pumper. Volvo FM 340hp
Darley LSRH1000 (3800Lpm)

Myself and 4 brigade members have driven it back from Qld.

Quote from: Alan (Big Al) on January 13, 2009, 03:12:26 PM
Seen the FDI for lincoln as high as 147 today

tis now around 190 at 4:30pm

Chook,

I was referring to your reference that eso's have a blanket exemption. this is not the case. We have exemptions as laid out in the regs, but are still required to comply with elements of the regs, particularly in return journeys. this is where cfs will be mainly affected, having to have drivers shuttled and the requirement for log books used in return journeys. Who provides them, who maintains them, where are they obtained, etc etc.

For Information,

CFS is not exempt from any part of the new regs, including the use of log books.

I believe most MFS monitors are a TFT Crossfire, 1250gpm or 4800Lpm. They have are mounted on a telescopic extension called an Extenda Gun (TFT also).

Quote from: Katrina on October 13, 2008, 08:52:39 PM
Numbers there are certain wicked and evil things about ya that I really like!!!

sounds like a wierd kinda messed up dating site... your in Numbers....  :wink:

Quote from: Pipster on September 03, 2008, 11:57:24 PM
No argument about that badjas!!

The difficulty I have found currently, is working out a suitable manual system to capture the names etc...... white boards, helmet / Key tags, magnetic boards etc.....all possible systems, but finding one to suit, and that works properly, is sometimes not that easy!!

Pip

We simply look at what helmets and gear are not hanging up. Unless someone is on a course (and generally you know who is doing a course), their gear should be there. It works for us quite well.

Rail grinding perhaps.

I'd request second alarm on route going by multiple calls and time of available resources.
Get one on a hose knocking down the fire, concentrating on the left of the entrance way (filtered the garage at this stage). As there isn't much of a breach of the main house area, i'd commit 2 in BA with a hose line to search and surpress, starting from the far left of the house. (With the hose guy outside donned but not started up).
The fourth guy would get a hydrant sunk, and then assist outside dude.

As the main house area isn't that well involved, you could do a fair bit by knocking down the fire in that entrance area. The front door seems to be still intact, and there is not a huge amount of roof and eaves smoke, so spreading the fire internally is not a huge concern for now. Wouldn't worry about ventilation yet, but if i had to, i'd probably push air in from the left side of the house to push the fire back towards the garage. (thats assuming he didn't have a few ferraris and bugatti veyrons in the shed. then its a different story all together...)

Burnside's area has remained reletively unchanged for years. All that can be developed, has been developed. There still exists a large (protected by national park status) rural risk in our area, and i think there will always be a need for CFS presence in the area.

We have a couple of guys that live and are members of CFS in the hills that work/play in our area, and regularly turn out and train with us. works well.

I think the nail is being hit on the head here... Repeatedly
The majority of CFS appliances cannot boost a system properly solo, and hence cannot conduct a full flow test. When SAMFS conduct flow testing, they generally pump 4 lines in to the boosters. Most CFS trucks only have 2 or 3 max 64 outlets, so CFS would have to use 2 trucks to acheive the test (thats if the trucks could reach the required volumes and pressures!!), and so it all gets a bit too hard.

Mythbusters say... BUSTED.

Quote from: bill - Hynam CFS on August 06, 2008, 06:23:18 AM
well was just making sure that those from HQ that watch this site see that we are pointing people in the right direction...But he can always contact anyone of line...

Big brother is watching... :evil:

SAMFS also conduct flow testing for the comissioning of new buildings in the metro area. (compliance and standards purposes). Could CFS undertake this testing in country areas? The fees charged could be split between the brigade and CFS.

The only problem is the equipment involved (flow meters, etc), the training involved, the reporting system, etc.

Did he pass the medical? If he's that bad, he may not pass...

Mid locker is approx 2100mm wide, and 670mm deep, however it is partially a through locker at the front.

We have a big extraction fan that starts when the pager interface is activated on an alert tone (lights on, roller door up). can also be manually switched on. It runs for about 10 minutes or until its turned off. It does a pretty good job.

Quote from: SA Firey on July 13, 2008, 06:50:31 PM

Quote from: Zippy on July 12, 2008, 07:42:08 PM

QuoteRegion 7 have been doing it for years (Blackwood CAFS, Cherry Gdns 34, Belair 14, etc)

Hahaha,  that cracked me up!

REGION 7 eh :lol:

CFS Locations
CFS has a State Headquarters and 6 Regional Headquarters across South Australia.

All Emergency Responses - In an emergency, please call 000.

CFS Headquarters

Region 1 - Mount Lofty Ranges

Region 2 - Mount Lofty Ranges and Yorke Peninsula

Region 3 - Murraylands and Riverland

Region 4 - Flinders, Mid North and Pastoral Areas

Region 5 - South East

Region 6 - Eyre Peninsula and West Coast

State Training Centre - Brukunga

Thanks for that Jeff.   :roll:

Quote from: Fox Mulder on July 06, 2008, 05:01:27 PM
Those people that are saying im going to wear to evey thing should stop trying to make your self appear eletist by trying to stand out. The people that are wearing yellows are still CFS vollies and you are not better than them because you have a BA ticket and thus PBI gold
Pull your heads in!!!!!!

Why do you care so much?
We got paged for a fence fire the other night... Prob a nomex job in your eyes, and it was actually a car under a carport. So if i'd used your advice, i would have to have undressed my nomex, got changed into my PBI (which you probably wouldn't have had with you, then donned BA. By then the garage would be gone, and possibly half the house it was attached to. you never know what your going to. Unless its a grass fire on a hot day, i wear pbi. And i always take both sets of gear to everything just incase.

Thanks mate, we planned to go.
St Mary's truck seemed to be a well finished truck, and those issues are fairly minor compared with some of the probs that have occured in recent times from other manufacturers.
I would have thought welded baffles are preferred anyway? Any idea why bolted ones were specified?