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Apparently so!

LighteningCrashes wrote:O'connor 1st? Is there a station at the workshop?

Not sure, but I heard it also. Resources were pretty stretched that night with Bunbury being sent up to Mandurah, Perth 3rd up to the Padbury fire and it sounded like Fremantle up in Joondalups area.

I heard an Albany LT when I was listening to the Bullsbrook fire channel the other day...

Yes it was O'Connor, who were stationed at Canning Vale I think. I guess they may have been a spare appliance manned by a relief crew? As stated above resources were all over the place and stretched very thin that night. I believe Rockingham 1st was at Welshpool.

Scrub/grass fire at Mount Observation, Mundaring State Forest
Yarra Road 5km South of Great Southern Hwy
Chidlow light tanker, Wooroloo light tanker, Wooroloo 4.4, Wundowie HSR

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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.

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. Comms plan given was MNE1. Control channels 34/346.

EDIT: Mt Helena, Sawyers Valley, Stoneville and Glen Forrest also requested. DPaW dozer is cutting tracks through the bush as the fire is burning in an inaccessible area. Air support is on the way.

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 as yet unknown. Communications plan in use is MNE1. Winds are SSW at 15-20km/hr. Control point is on Horton Road near Great Southern Highway. Will now be known as Lakes Control.

East Gidge 12.2 is also on the way as is Inkpen BFB and Mundaring ICV.

EDIT: As are Clackline, Grass Valley, DO South East and DO SES South East.

Lakes fire now 3rd alarm

Diceman wrote:Lakes fire now 3rd alarm

You beat me to it!

Further updates should now go in the significant bushfires thread.

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/pag ... headoffice

Plus you could hear the whoop-whoop building alarms in the background of the Comcen operator's voice

Kwinana, 66, 2nd alarm. Baldivis x Millar Rd. Bildivis rd Control.

10-15 acres alight. Requesting Singleton, which are on their way to Mandurah rd incident.
Paftacs: Grass fire approaching Millar rd. Burning southerly at 10 kph. Command MSE3. Time to control 1 hour.

Success FRS
Kwinana VFRS
Kwinana South
Baldivis
DO Beelier
Baldivis rd to be blocked to traffic.
Success arrived, sending Lt in to save shed.

Fire jumped Millar. Air support requested. Now 3rd alarm.

And for the second time in two days Metro VFRS has "come across a traffic accident." 3 cars involved, requesting WAPOL and ambulance.

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.

Fire off Poison Lease Road, Sawyers Valley. 1ha, fuel very light, time to control 30-60mins. Comms ch238.

Mt Helena LT
Mundaring FPO
Mundaring Deputy 4
Mundaring VFRS
Woorooloo BFB
Chidlow 44