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Structure fire at Mater Dei College in Edgewater. No further info at this stage.

EDIT: Wangara reports the fire is in the workshop area and is out.

vk6hgr wrote:How weird.

If it's still doing it when I get home, I'll flick the stream from ch380 to ch57 or ch25.

I wonder if they've de-linked 6AR and 6IP? That's the other possibility.

I think the 6AR/6IP network might be having a few issues today with repeater linking.

Listening to the online stream, I'm hearing the comcen and some appliances, but not others. Sounds like some of the repeater-to-repeater links might be down but repeater-to-comcen still up. That's my guess anyway.

Third alarm bushfire in Avon Valley National Park. Haven't gotten a precise location yet but the location given for the turnouts was McKnoe Drive in Morangup which has the national park on its border.

Success FRS just turned out to a DBA at number 20 Stockton Bend in Cockburn Central. This amused me as I'm pretty sure that Comcen already knew that they were coming... http://www.dfes.wa.gov.au/contactus/pages/dfesoffices.aspx#headoffice Plus you could hear the whoop-whoop building alarms in the ba...

All I heard (I wasn't near the scanner much at the time) is that there was around $3k's worth of damage and the fire was an electrical fault of some kind.

Third alarm structure fire - Kingsley telephone exchange. Ardrossan Loop (opposite Trappers Drive / Whitfords Ave intersection).

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Interesting info and thanks for sharing. I guess it's an attempt to standardise the response to a fire of a certain classification. Much like a Zone 2 or 2A response, you just know that a certain level of turnout will be initiated.

And here come the extra resources... Two Rocks BFB, Quinns Rocks BFB, Wanneroo Central BFB, Wundowie VFRS, Mundaring VFRS, Bedfordale BFB, South Coogee BFB, Jandakot BFB and Roleystone BFB have all been paged to provide either a heavy, a light tanker or both to Lakes Control.

Update from Lakes Control - fire size is 41 hectares and 3.1km of perimeter. Fire is approximately 3km from the quarry. Current plan is to stop the fire at the quarry. There is spotting ahead of the fire. Fireground is divided into three sectors.

From Lakes Control - fire has jumped the Great Southern Highway and is heading towards the BGC quarry. Aerial units have so far been unable to stop the head fire and there is spotting some distance ahead.

A further ten appliances are being requested.

Diceman wrote:Lakes fire now 3rd alarm

You beat me to it!

Further updates should now go in the significant bushfires thread.

Update from The Lakes. Classified as a second alarm scrub fire. Size is 4-5 hectares of jarrah scrub and growing. Location is about 400m from yesterday's fire, burning on the southern side of Great Southern Highway. Resources already mobilised should be sufficient at this stage. Time to control is a...

East Swan 2.4 and Bullsbrook 3.4 are both at the Bullsbrook flare-up. Meanwhile another fire has started near The Lakes about 500m from the one that started yesterday. Control point is on Horton Road near Great Southern Highway. Wooroloo, Parkerville and Chidlow BFBs have been paged plus air support...

East Swan and Bullsbrook have been paged to a flare-up of the Bullsbrook fire.

The flare-up is burning in an unburned pocket of peat soil and paperbark trees near Raphael Road and Payne Road in West Bullsbrook.