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SA Firefighter General / Re: Ammusing pager message.
« on: February 12, 2009, 08:39:35 PM »
lol

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SA Firefighter General / Re: VIC Bushfires
« on: February 12, 2009, 08:36:38 PM »
Spoke to some SES people today and they did not know anyting about SES going an dso they went and contacted their regional office and no one has caleld them back yet...

i have heard that 2 ses staff have gone over to assist with imt i don't think any volunteers have been asked for at this stage.

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SA Firefighter General / Re: VIC Bushfires
« on: February 08, 2009, 08:25:51 PM »
just on channel 9 a cfa volunteers wife and children dead while he was out fighting the fires so sad my hearts go out to all those affected.

 is that meant to read as

Just on channel 9, a cfa volunteers wife and children dead while he was out fighting the fires so sad my hearts go out to all those affected.

i scanned it and read 9 cfa volunteers dead

yes you are right i am hopeless with grammer

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SA Firefighter General / Re: VIC Bushfires
« on: February 08, 2009, 08:05:23 PM »
just on channel 9 a cfa volunteers wife and children dead while he was out fighting the fires so sad my hearts go out to all those affected.

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SA Firefighter General / Re: VIC Bushfires
« on: February 08, 2009, 11:43:51 AM »
I agree however we do start to heat up again on saturday with 37 forecast so my thinking would be to send as many as we can for this week before we heat up again and cant send any, NSW has problems of there own at the moment so not sure if they are sending any?? any one know?

i did hear there are several nsw striketeams going if not already there. hope they havent left themselves short.

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SA Firefighter General / Re: VIC Bushfires
« on: February 08, 2009, 11:09:59 AM »
its all pollotics i suppose. but cfa have to make a request for more crews if they want them. we will see. goodluck and stay safe to whoever goes across.

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ALL Rescue / Re: 'Heavy' Rescue
« on: February 07, 2009, 06:50:56 PM »
could someone let me know if this is true but i have heard on the grapevine that strathalbyn cfs have now got a full rcr kit. could someone set me straight

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SA Firefighter General / Re: SAAS Responding Other Services..
« on: February 07, 2009, 06:22:57 PM »
Can anyone explain the time discrepancy for an incident that occurred this morning, ambos responded to car rollover on the Strathalbyn-Meadows  road at0225hrs. CFS and SES were responded to inc no 7 at 0259hrs car rollover Strathalbyn-Meadows road 4kms towards Meadows ,I assume the same incident.
That unless my maths is incorrect is a delay of response time of 34mins.
Question do SAPOL or SAAS carry dry powder fire extinguishers for perhaps using in the unfortunate event of an entrapment with a fire starting and no fire cover on scene.
Question do SAPOL or SAAS as a procedure at an accident scene check that the car involved ignition is turned off and in gear and handbrake applied.



this happens all the time and not even a greivence report seems to do anything

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meadows no longer carries the stokes litter on board a truck because there is not the room. they used to carry it on their stand alone rescue appliance but not any more because they have a 24P

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Country Fire Service / Re: CFS Trailers
« on: August 01, 2007, 08:00:38 PM »
i believe that Heysen group has a BA trailer that is often used by strath group to fill cylinders during jobs an no it doesn't go to the job it is taken to strath base and run there.

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i think you will find that the reason that it cost more to build emergency service stations that sheds for farmers is because we have to comply to the Australian building code IE handicapped toilets and all the other stuff because it is a public building etc as for old stations if they do minor works to those that didnt comply they then have to outlay money for those changes even that some are not necessary

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Country Fire Service / Re: Helmets - wearing the wrong one
« on: July 31, 2007, 05:22:30 PM »
our brigade recently did an rcr refresher and have been told the pacific now make a helmet called a BR9 witch is a rural helmet with an impact rated visor so most of the people in our brigade that dont have ba are getting these helmets now.

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The Humour Zone / Re: You can tell your a firefighter when
« on: July 28, 2007, 05:44:07 PM »
Heres another one.... you can tell your a firefighter when you respond down the fire shed for a call out only wearing boxer shorts and a t-shirt  :-D

Needless to say im not the only one on here who has done that before  :lol:

 
you not the only one there are a few in our brigade too

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All Equipment discussion / Re: Scanner
« on: July 27, 2007, 10:04:01 PM »
in this weeks filtered smiths catalouge there is a uniden72xlt for $149.00 is this any good to pick up grn

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All Equipment discussion / Re: Ordering of PBI Gold
« on: July 27, 2007, 08:26:35 PM »
11 months is nothing i know of three people that have been waiting for over 14 months now and  ba opperators are pretty scarce at thier brigade

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SAAS / Re: SAAS Station Codes
« on: July 25, 2007, 06:34:58 PM »
police do section 23 but any medical practitioner can over rule that decision. but if a doctor detains the patient under section 41 they are then refered to the phsycologist

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Incident Operations / Re: Hills Fires 10/01/07
« on: July 24, 2007, 10:59:07 PM »
Oh, and can someone tell me why a red flag alert was issued to find a female fire fighter with bee-sting allergy?

Not so much the alert, but once she volunteered her location, and the fact that she had sufficient supplies, the sector commander was still ordered to remove her & her appliance from the fireground to the staging area, report to the staging area manager and then the appliance (with her, I believe) would be allowed to return to the fire ground.

We heard this on the GRN, and at a guess it was 3-4 hours that the appliance was off the fire ground (on Friday, mopping up I presume), judging by the time the order to leave the fire ground was given to when they reported back on duty.

Details are obviously scetchy as we were just listening to the GRN and not taking notes, but I'd love to know what practical & logical motivation was behind this.

I'm pretty sure you will find she had no medication with her so they pulled her off and organised some and then she was able to go back on to the fire ground for the rest of her deployment. it was more the safety reasons of what would happen if they didn't act when thye had the knowledge of her allergies.

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OFF Topic / Re: Who Went to Urrbrae
« on: July 24, 2007, 05:20:31 PM »
Urrbrae was a great school was there from 2000 to 2005 sad that so many people bag it i bet that the majority have never been there and seen what the school has to offer. its alot better than most other govt high schools

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SAMFS / Re: MFS - Burgundy DO cars
« on: July 24, 2007, 04:08:22 PM »
not sure about mfs but cfs and ses have changed to either three years or 100,000kms to save the cost of fitting the vehicles out and stripping them. The new ses hiluxes are going on a five year lease plan.

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Leaving School For calls
« on: July 23, 2007, 11:28:43 AM »
i had an understanding from my school when i attended 2 years ago to come late if i went to a job in the morning but was never allowed to leave school for a job which was fair enough. when i completed my bff1 i was able to get this course credited towards my sace i got three sace points for this course which is the equivalent of three subjects. i recommend any students that are still at school to try and obtain rpl for bff1 talk to your year level co-ordinater or the person in charge of VET training

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SAAS / Re: SAAS Station Codes
« on: July 20, 2007, 12:18:46 PM »
7of7:Strathalbyn:- Level 4; Tailem Bend:- No crew.
1908782 08:32:32 20-07-07 6of7:school holidays so page to find anyone avialable; Penneshaw:- No crew; Penola:- No crew; Pinnaroo:- Local only; Pt MacDonnell:- no crew; Robe:- No crew;
1908782 08:32:27 20-07-07 5of7:4 with trainee; Meningie:- Level 4 with trainee till 12.00 then full crew; Nangwarry:- Full crew till 12.00 then level 4; Padthaway:- No roster while
1908782 08:32:21 20-07-07 4of7:18.00 and are local only; Lameroo:- No roster; Mannum:- No crew till 12.00 then full crew local only; Meadows:- Full crew till 12.00 (Dr on) then level
1908782 08:32:15 20-07-07 3of7:level 4 till 16.00 then no crew; Karoonda;- No crew; Kingston:- Level 4 till 10.00 then full crew till 12.00 then level 4 till 14.00 then full crew till
1908782 08:32:10 20-07-07 2of7:morning; Renmark on Passive till 09.00; Moderate wokload in hills murray today; CREWING=> American River:- Level 4 till 10.00 then no crew; Gosse:-
1908782 08:32:06 20-07-07 1of7:Good Morning from Region South:- Team Leader is Rob Willoughby; Region are Ross; Damien and Eddie; Barmera finally ended 10 hour break at 07.35 this
 like this messag regarding SAAS crewing Meadows and the surrounding districts is in good hands.


my opinion only.

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Country Fire Service / Re: Metro CFS volunteers
« on: July 19, 2007, 11:35:38 AM »
the courses run at meadows were a basic familiarisation with fire appliances and had a few units from bff1 and suppress wildfire. the idea was that when ses are providing logistical support they would havemore of and idea about fire fighting and where not to be IE deadman zone,etc i think it is a great idea if the ses are willing to help go for it.

matt
my opinion only

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Country Fire Service / Re: pbi gold
« on: July 13, 2007, 05:12:02 PM »
at least most of you have PBI gold many of us don't have the gear i was recently at a CFB course to find out that thirteen of the twenty trainees have even been issued PBI an i have had BA for 18 months now. whats the point in training Ba opperators if there is not the correct PPE for them to wear. :? :?

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