Other incidents/minor fires etc - 2008/2009

[MBFB]

it was on 326 wattellup rd it was burnig into the regional park.. hopevalley were first in attendance and upgraded it to 2nd alarm when they got there murdoch and canningvale 2.4, South coogee and jandakot were there mandogalup wasnt there.. all appliances were released at 1940

[kwn]

thanks MBFB, its strange that a fire that is at the end of their street they are not called out... I know it was in cockburn but it does not make sense not to send them...

[MBFB]

yes it is really strange thats what i thought ..

[meg]

All - I've just moved a bunch of posts to here from the Significant fires sticky - please remember, 3rd alarm and above and on topic discussion about the fires in that thread

Thanks
Meg

[Chooky]

I was at the Wattleup fire this arvo on Jandakot LT2, i think they just wanted to take care of it with local units and bringing Mandogalup in may have forced them to raise to a 3rd alarm which i don't think they wanted to do. The main call was also for LT's which we have the two so that might of put us ahead of Mandogalup. We have about the same response time ( < 5mins from station ) so i didn't see any major drama's. South Coogee 2.4 also made an appearance. Hope Valley and Murdoch were relieved by Freo 1st and Canningvale around 1830 - 1900 so they could return to station to change over the day crews. Most of the BFS units were released by around 1930.

Chook

[scanner81]

Chooky you guys turned out just in the knick of time. Because of the large delay in you guys turning out from station Murdoch was on the radio requesting that if you still hadn't turned out the wanted FRS crews to be mobilised so they could get a grip on the fire before it got to big. You guys turned out like 30 seconds after..........

[Chooky]

Yeah, we were already rolling and waiting for them to get off the air so we could call in. We could have turned out a LT quicker but we like to stock up all the units with drinks first, move the units out, lock up etc. etc. which helped all the units turn out in quick succession. From pager msg to turn out took us about 20min, which i don't think is bad during work hours and so many of our members work outside of our area. We would have been on site within 25mins which is only 10 - 15mins behind the pro's benchmark.

P.S. We also beat our sister brigade South Coogee on site, who are closer!!! Hahaha

Chook

[BFB LT1]

Nice work Chooky!!!!!!!!!

[Chooky]

Supprised i didn't see u down the station mate, more pressing issues to attend too???

[BFB LT1]

Unfortunatly i was stuck at freo hospital with this bung arm of mine had pager and phone turn off and scanner in the car. hahahahaha the only time iv got something actually to do and a fire call comes.

on the other hand (double meaning hahaha) success and murdoch turning out to mva on kwinnana freeway south bound, just south of Roe high way

1536 murdoch arrived 5 car pile up no persons trapped require police

[Helitak_670]

I have been at a station where the time is 5-8mins pager to turning out. During work hours to.

[Chooky]

Yeah Helitak, when i'm working from home on some days, i'm only less than 5mins away from the station on a work day. This incident, unfortunately i wasn't and neither were any other members, so some days are better than others which is the nature of the beast of volunteering i guess.

[BuddahFRS]

standard turn out time at our station is 7mins. during the hours of 6am and 6pm, they will also turn out maddington to our calls, as ops room knows that it is hard to get a day time crew, but 75% of those calls, we do have some people around during the day.

[BFB LT1]

Baldivis atending fire baldivis rd x safety bay rd
requesting to mobilise all baldivis aplaince including there 9.2 and extra lt aswell as rockingham due to fuel drums being alight.

fire ground channle 35 police in attendence rockingham 1st arrived making contact

[gkoutlis]

Baldivis atending fire baldivis rd x safety bay rd
requesting to mobilise all baldivis aplaince including there 9.2 and extra lt aswell as rockingham due to fuel drums being alight.

Hope Valley turning out.

G