SA Firefighter

For the above boots:

Meets AS/NZS4821 Firefighting Footwear Standard

Surely thats the cfs standard.......

Something that would slip on easily like the haix would be nice for rural jobs had they been supportive and enduring enough, nothing annoys me more than time wasted messing around trying to do up the zip on the taipans and the resulting effects on your fingers once you successfully pull up the zip. Im lucky enough to have a foot halfway between an 8 and a 9 so I wear two pairs of woolen socks to keep my feet snug in the boots. On KI I made the mistake of wearing just 1 pair and I've never had sorer feet before in my life. In addition the taipans weigh a ton. How much do the Haix ones weigh?

Cheers CFS_Firey,

I understand that it is the season for burning, but surely they need to keep a better eye on these things.

Did anyones PDW's pickup the other half of this message????

1909545   12:36:38   22-04-08   (2of2) t Thursday (17/4). No assets are at threat and CFS crews have not been responded. DEH SC.

** Shakes head **

When will they ever learn?

1909229   14:37:18   19-04-08   MFS: *CFSRES INC043 19/04/08 14:37,RESPOND GRASS FIRE,KEILIRA CFS,KEILIRA MAP 0 0 0 TG224,DEH BURNOFF BROKEN LINES AT MT SCOTT,SAIR55 KEIL00 KNGS00 REED00 CFS: Keilira & District

Quote from: Alan (Big Al) on April 12, 2008, 09:08:12 PM
Hmmm only have alarms to cover their behinds hey? :|

What about those alarms that do turn out to be something and the fire brigade gets there ealy and has a big save? We had a alarm to one of our service stations 3am one morning turned out to be a real job, because of the alarm building damage and stock loss was kept to about $400,000 and they were up and running again within 3 weeks.  If there had been no monitored alarm the loss to the building would have been over 1 million and a rebuild would have taken months. Not to mention the danger to surrounding homes that were close to that building.

Alot of these new alarm systems are able to isolate particular areas, and i believe in the SOP's/COSO's somewhere doesnt it state if the alarm is constantly malfunctioning it can be isolated until fixed???

I understand what your saying, you would have known it must have been something as soon as you saw the 'Private Alarm' thing, if it isn't a recurring alarm then its probably the real deal.

The percentage alarms that turn out to be real fires would be negligable, they serve only to cover the donkey's of companies who are worried about liability (because they have to be in this day and age), I think its a bit unfair to expect a volunteer service to waste their time on a fixed alarm that constantly malfunctions, maybe if they want that kind of system to be 100% monitored and responded to they should think about getting a MFS set up in key problem areas. That or start charging. You could probably name on one hand when a fixed alarm has turned out to be a fire... The government and CFS need to be more aware of the way they treat their volunteers because every year, every new COSO some form of liberation is lost. They should only have ever installed beeping smoke detectors not wired to a modem and a sprinkler system that is sufficient. You listen to the scanner and the turnouts of the mets spending the majority of their time trying to formulate stop codes for some bullshit alarm, it puts the public at risk.

** My opinion only **

I wouldn't go attacking them, I think its fairly easy to become complacent, what with the majority of alarm calls being false alarms.

MFS: *CFSRES INC058 09/04/08 19:45,RESPOND Vehicle Fire,SUDHOLZ RD,WINDSOR GARDENS MAP 95 M 13 TG182,CORNER LIONS RD, CAR VS BUS VS POLICE CA,R,OAK303 BLP211 MFS Beulah Park 211 Response

1909148   12:45:20   09-04-08   DELIVERY OFF PARACOMBES NEW QUICK ATTACK VEHICLE ARRIVES 1900 THURSDAY THE 1OTH TRAINING ON THIS VEHICLE 1930 PHONE DARRYL FOR APOLOGIES 041780:?23 CFS Paracombe Info

Lucky Bast.ards!

Quote from: Zippy on April 01, 2008, 07:38:14 PM
my heart goes out to people on a 200mb Bigpong plan locked in for 24 months.. :-(

The Telstra sales people were born without souls...

Guess they got it out....

1915793   14:36:07   02-04-08   GRP MSGE. PIPPOS STRIKE TEAM DEPARTING LAMEROO 1500 HRS 2/4. DEEP CREEK AND ANGOVE DEPARTING WITH THEM. REMAINING 3 UNITS RETURNING AFTER BREAK AND MEAL ARDO DEH Southern Lofty Group

Just bumping it...

Quote from: SA Firey on March 13, 2008, 10:18:33 AM
Skype....FREE :wink:

Argghh yes but the DATA that costs money... Hours of talk will add up to a lot of downloads so people with unwittingly low download limits like 300-500meg will find   it gets expensive quickly!

Vista gets the user friendliness vote, however I don't see myself upgrading anytime soon.... Its not absolutely necessary to upgrade to vista either XP will be getting another service pack in the not too distant future, so that will extend its lifetime.

Yep they learn from their mistakes....NOT  :|

SA Firey was it you telling a story that you were parked on top of a hill while the DEH lit the bottom of it up?

1909800   17:40:31   01-04-08   MFS: *CFSRES INC051 01/04/08 17:39,RESPOND GRASS FIRE,LAMEROO CFS,LAMEROO MAP 0 0 0 TG204,CREWS REQUIRED TO ASSIST DEH ON PINAROO,BORDERTOWN RD. RING LAMEROO STATION FOR,DETAILS, FROM MALLEE DGO1,SAIR55 LAMR19 PINN19 PRLL00 CFS State Air Desk

1915793   18:21:35   01-04-08   (1of2) FRM ARDO - Strike team required for Ngarkat. To be at Lameroo by 0800hrs Wed. SL & NL crews please contact your DO if available. DO's please contact RDO DEH Southern Lofty Group
1915793   18:21:37   01-04-08   (2of2) when you have 3 x 14's for SL. 2 x 14's + ST Leader w vehicle for NL. DEH Southern Lofty Group

1919375   18:12:43   01-04-08   MFS: Geranium needed on standby 01/04/2008 6:12:00 PM CFS Geranium Info

1919361   18:28:54   01-04-08   MFS: MALLEE GROUP INFO: REQUIRE AVAILABILITY FOR IMT FOR TONIGHT AND TOMORROW CONTACT BASE ASAP ON 85763112 01/04/2008 6:28:42 PM CFS Mallee Group Info

1915793   20:34:35   01-04-08   SLD CREW DEPARTING FOR NGARKAT 2ND APRIL MEET AT CLELAND AT 0430HRS DEPARTING 0500HRS FROM SLD DO DEH Southern Lofty Group

Ngarkat Forecast weather for 2/4/08:

FIRE DANGER RATINGS for Wednesday.
Upper South East - Very High
Lower South East - Very High

Wednesday :  A Severe Weather Warning has been issued for Wednesday. Areas of
rain, contracting northeast. Fresh to strong north to northwest winds, ahead of
a cooler, fresh to strong and squally southwest change during the morning. Winds
possibly reaching gale force at times. Scattered showers with and following the
change, more widespread southwest of about Keith. Isolated thunderstorms and
small hail.

1909357   16:58:15   01-04-08   CFSR5: For info to GO/DGO's - Severe weather warning issued for Upper & Lower South East. Damaging winds , 60-70 kph, expected with gusts up to 90 kph. Expected overnight and into Wednesday. CFS Wattle Range Group Officers Info

CFS always say dont get complacent so what does the fire service it self do?? Gets complacent and lights lots of fires.....

So is this a project burn out of control? Or something else?

I was going to post that but I thought I'd cop too much flak. I think everyones running around checking that their burn offs are out because of it being a bit windy tomorrow...

Quote from: David on March 31, 2008, 04:51:41 PM
Quote from Jacob W
I think to page over something so un-important at that time was a bit out of line..

1908980   09:10:18   31-03-08   MRPH INFO: APOLOGISES FOR THE MIDNIGHT PAGE. IT WAS SCHEDULED FOR 1600hrs TODAY. DON'T KNOW WHAT WENT WRONG. THANKS DAVE (EQ) - MAWSON BASE CFS Morphett Vale Info

Well at least he put an apology out!

Oh right, yeah he just sent that so that no more bricks went through his windows LOL.......

That really windy day after the Willunga fire was contained, they kept sending pages about irrelevant stuff like the "cadet meeting is canceled", and the "leadership meeting is postponed" etc. and it comes through on the response line so it does scare the crap out of you...it isn't cool to do that when everyone is on edge like that....

1908980   00:00:58   31-03-08   MRPH INFO: THOSE PERSONS WHO HAVE INDICATED THEY WANT STUBBIE/CRUISER HOLDERS AND HAVEN'T PAID YET. YOU HAVE UNTIL 2100hrs MONDAY 31/03/08 TO GET THE FUNDS TO BRIGADE EQUIPMENT CO-ORD, OR THE ORDER MAYNOT GO AHEAD. DAVE - MAWSON CFS Morphett Vale Info
1908980   00:01:02   31-03-08   BASE CFS Morphett Vale Info

I think to page over something so un-important at that time was a bit out of line..

SAFirey has put some up on ozfire

1919074   10:00:38   12-03-08   MFS: *CFSRES INC030 12/03/08 10:00,RESPOND COMMERCIAL FIRE,GRAND TRUNKWAY ,TORRENS ISLAND MAP 80 G 2 TG182,OIL FIRE ON A4 TURBINE,ADL205 41 PAD251 APK361 OAK303 ERV071 LG2814 LGS281 MFS Car 41

ERV071: Is this emergency response brigade for the Power Station..if not who is it?
LG2814: In this instance would this be the fire boat?

Viva La Revolution  :-D