General fire discussions

[written_ficton]

Yesterday afternoon when BFB LT1 posted there were large building storm clouds which I don't think amounted to much.

The smog is this mornings problem.

Sorry - i'm a day behind

[Tyranus]

Folks in the shire of Mundaring:

Please be advised that pursuant to Section 17 and 18 of the Bush Fires Act 1954 (as amended) and due to seasonal conditions, the PROHIBITED BURNING TIMES for the Shire of Mundaring have been extended for fourteen (14) days from midnight on 27th of April 2009 until midnight the 11th of May 2009 inclusive.

[dlcat1]

Folks in the shire of Mundaring:

Please be advised that pursuant to Section 17 and 18 of the Bush Fires Act 1954 (as amended) and due to seasonal conditions, the PROHIBITED BURNING TIMES for the Shire of Mundaring have been extended for fourteen (14) days from midnight on 27th of April 2009 until midnight the 11th of May 2009 inclusive.

Had a lookie here http://www.eldersweather.com.au/raindates.jsp?lc=w00 and it doesn't really look great for rain up that way before the 20th of may or so.

Bit better down here but still not great.

[brocks]

does anyone known where 2helitacks and big yellow were today ,was in midland shopping and saw them comming back in formation from a north easterly direction at around 4.00pm

[yorky]

Looking at the webtrak they were up at Morangup/Darling Range, if its the same AS50 that appeared to go over Midland, although it was only the one on the map.

[Smithy]

fire in Morangup. adjacent to avon national park. think it was Morangup and quarry rds

[dlcat1]

Greater Perth might get a load of smoke some time tonight. DEC has some HRs down Manji/Walpole way and the smoke is moving through Bunbury.

[hammer]

I bet it's the Wesbeam factory again!

yep just confirmed

they do wood laminated beams etc using pine plantation wood. Same as last fire, spark has got into hopper that holds loads of saw dust

yeah it is that, they just did a sitrep over the radio

i work at wesbeam is there any way of hearing the call over the radio???? we only got 2 trucks to start with then all of a sudden we had 10 wanna hear the " holy heck we gonna need more trucks" is there any recordings????

[melg]

I thought it was funny when 6AR said the elevated platform was comming from Fremantle (as in are you sure your gonna need it by the time it gets there).... the response was "yep keep it comming"

[wascanner]

I thought it was funny when 6AR said the elevated platform was comming from Fremantle (as in are you sure your gonna need it by the time it gets there).... the response was "yep keep it comming"

it would have taken the CLP an hour to get to the scene from freo. Perth was closer supprised it diidnt get turned out instead.

On another note why doesnt fesa invest in an aerial capability for south and north of perth, because really IMO there seems to be one. It would take to long for the CLPs to get to an incident if there was a really serious need for it. Probably something like a TTL which would have no problems dealing with any structures in suburban centres like in joondalup for example where there are lots of structures between 15-30m.

BTW with Duncraig, Joondalup, Wangara and Butler turned out to that incident who covered for them just out of interest

[melg]

from memory Daglish went to Joondalup, they must have got a call later as I heard Claremont being sent to Joondalup but they were stood down as Wangara was then able to cover.

I was also wondering where was the CLP from Perth?

[WPXZBP]

The Perth CLP was probably too busy with something else (eg incident, training, servicing etc) hence the need to turn out Fremantle's CLP.

[BuddahFRS]

from memory Daglish went to Joondalup, they must have got a call later as I heard Claremont being sent to Joondalup but they were stood down as Wangara was then able to cover.

I was also wondering where was the CLP from Perth?

as far as i recall the perth CLP and TTL are on restricted movement, i heard them say that on the radio this morning.

[scanner81]

After reading the paper this morning i dont think perth had a CLP or TTL as they were both in at workshops

[scanner81]

Anyone know what was happening in Baldivis last night. The FRS and Police had the safety Bay X Eighty Rd intersection Plus another intersection in Settlers Hill Blocked off for Hours couldn't see what was going on though.