WA Radio Scanner Users' Group

I remember reading a story once of basketballer Luc Longley who had one (cant remember if Scania?) in his own private car collection. He renovated an industrial warehouse if Fremantle as a house for his family that would fit in the fire truck and basketball court. He used it to take his family and ...

Strange that 21 is apparently unavailable (according to the brochures etc)..

ATIS ATIS YPPH F 170909 RWY: 21 AND 24 FOR ARR. RWY 21 FOR DEP + WND: 220/15 CLD: CAVOK + TMP: 28 + QNH: 1013

I believe Wanneroo is one of the mast/antenna-unfriendly councils... from what I'd heard anyway?

to be honest, the organisations should know better than to put sensitive information over a radio network that isn't encrypted. pretty sure they have phones in NZ?

gkoutlis wrote:

kwn wrote:how many crew do the SETs normally turn out with?

Usually 2 - but can carry 4.

G

It's always been 4. A station officer and 3 firefighters. With the old single-cab SET the last 2 crew used to follow behind in the LRV.

CobCob wrote:Its live drive however and which 2.4Us have live drive.

all of them, just not the 3 career appliances and really old 2.4U's. The original 2.4U with live-drive was an FRS appliance.

Only the front (nose) gear was in question

gk. wouldnt have said it if I wasnt sure. did you see the news footage? some shots taken using a camera (not going through the effort of transferring the footage). you can see the gear in all 3 grabs. http://www.fastlane.net.au/~paul/warsug/img1.jpg http://www.fastlane.net.au/~paul/warsug/img2.jpg h...

I've just rewinded back to the story on my PVR and the footage DOES show the front gear down (and collapsing) on landing.

kwn wrote:Does anyone know who is heading to Balladonia WA.(Southern Cross?) I just heard a task force getting ready at Baldivis fire Station.

Balladonia is on the Nullarbor, east of Norseman.

Channel 7.

See http://warsug.info/viewtopic.php?p=79696#p79696

yeah realised that, very new one though looks similar to the 1.4 in some ways and even then we Darlington didn't have it for very long. All the career 2.4's I've seen are old as. Malaga and Canning Vale have got new 2.4... i do believe joondalup has one, on credible source in DEC All 3 stations hav...

co own a 4x4 toyota with the WASCC Knowledge of Japanese a distinct advantage ;) The complex falls under CAMS and all fires must be attended by their accredited fire marshals.This is why I have acess all areas on my car for the V8's. The BFB are only there as the City of Wanneroo own the land I thi...

The Wanneroo Bush Fire Brigade only cover the spectator area at our V8 Round as part of the City of Wanneroo Emergency Plan. and Paddock/Buildings, not to mention any fires outside of race days (regardless of location). The raceway falls outside of the Metro Gazetted Fire District so the City is re...

If only it wasn't so far away....