Other incidents/minor fires etc - 2008/2009

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Re: Other incidents/minor fires etc - 2008/2009

Post by Helitak_670 »

Yea it was going good from what I could see when I was out flying.
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Re: Other incidents/minor fires etc - 2008/2009

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coming home along the freeway southbound. lots of smoke and glow on thomas rd. the triangle of scrub between freeway thomas rd and train line
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theres a bushfire kinsbury drive serpentine any updates on it at this stage??
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unsure. no arrival code or sitreps. just about every appliance in the SJ area are attending.
while serpentine were turning out they asked for more backup because they could see the size of it already.
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ok must be big.. smithy the fire you saw tonight was a second alarm scrub hope valley and kwinana frs attended i saw it it was pretty big it was extinguished by 2145
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yeh heard it all when i got home.

still no sitrep or anything about the operation in serpentine
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not at this stage sounds like a big fire in sawyers valley
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Re: Other incidents/minor fires etc - 2008/2009

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yeh 3rd alarm.
10 acres out of control with no access to fire
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serpentine deputy2 sitrep inaccesible property all in hills he will give a sitrep in 15-20 minutes..
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Re: Other incidents/minor fires etc - 2008/2009

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Baldivis has just got a page to assist at serpentine fire.
only asking for 9.2 at this stage. Im assuming 3rd alarm by this stage
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2nd alarm scrubfire matison rd cross bradley street. maddington and canningvale 2.4 in attendance
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Perth 1st and 2nd at structure fire in Highgate. fire was extinguished by resident. perth 1st investigating
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Post by gkoutlis »

Sounds like a serious bush fire in Southern River

http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx? ... ntID=33869

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gkoutlis wrote:Sounds like a serious bush fire in Southern River

http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx? ... ntID=33869

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heard it on the radio this morning - Armadale 1st put a sit-rep roound 6am saying it was contained.

Armadale 1st
Armadale 2nd
Canning Vale
Canning Vale 2.4
Malaga 2.4
didn't catch the other station that was in attendence
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SmashedXR6T wrote:
gkoutlis wrote:Sounds like a serious bush fire in Southern River

http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx? ... ntID=33869

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heard it on the radio this morning - Armadale 1st put a sit-rep roound 6am saying it was contained.

Armadale 1st
Armadale 2nd
Canning Vale
Canning Vale 2.4
Malaga 2.4
didn't catch the other station that was in attendence
Cheers many thanks for that.
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