SA Firefighter

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?

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.

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.

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

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!

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

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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!

Yep they learn from their mistakes....NOT 

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

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...

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..

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?