General fire discussions

[brocks]

looking at the latest west australian newspaper report online,they have said 1 toodyay resident has burns and has been taken to perth not saying how bad burns are yet,2 firemen suffured smoke inahalation,and 1 fireman heatstroke,never good to hear of injuries and i hope you all make a speedy recovery especially hope the burns victim is not badly burnt,take my hat off to all you brave fireman,and firewomen who put there lives on the line during tragedies like yesterdays blaze at toodyay.i know what you guys have been through as i was in cfa when living in victoria and experanced ash wednesday in my community as a 17yrold,[im a fair bit older now }, as well as being sent to numerous large bush fires around the state and up to sydney as well,its very frightning and intimadting takling large fast moving waves of fire but gives you the best feeling at the same time to be protecting your and everyones else's communities,like i said i take my hat off to you all great job guys keep strong

[treeny]

which brigade left their 4.4 up in toodyay. i heard on the stream last night that it sustained damage on the fire ground but i missed the callsign.

[MBFB]

i heard chidlow say they left their 4.4 on the firground

[Tyranus]

Chidlow 4.4 is fine, Chidlow light tanker was very badly damaged from what we got told.

[written_ficton]

Sounds like the firies did an excellent job out there yesterday considering what was on offer.

Perhaps when someone has a chance they could list which units responded?

[MBFB]

how is the fire going at the moment? is it all under control?

[treeny]

I definitely heard chidlow say they left their 4.4 there. mayb they stated the wrong vehicle. did u do a shift tyranus?

[treeny]

how is the fire going at the moment? is it all under control?

sections of the fire are still out of control and unpredictable - FESA Alert

[Tyranus]

LOL @ request for units turned out!

Yep I did the graveyard shift. There were a lot of trucks out there from all over the traps and then as we were driving back we saw another contingent. But working around our sector was

Darlington LT1 - with me
Darlington LT2
Stoneville LT1
Stoneville LT2
Julimar 1.4
Chidlow 4.4
East Swan 2.4
Shire of Toodyay grader
Central/Toodyay LT1
Bejoording 1.4
South Coogee 2.4
Also seen around the traps were
Midland LT1 and LT2
Daglish 1st + LT
Fremantle 1st + LT
Rockingham 2nd
Armadale 2nd
Guildford 2.4 + LT
(Bassendean 1.4 and LT were apparently there)
Singleton 2.4
Kalamunda 1.4, 2.4? LT's 4, 5 and maybe a couple more
Toodyay UT and LT
Moora SES Troopie
Cockburn SES (probably something to do with catering)
Salvo's were there
Muchea (didn't catch appliance details but they were there)
Mariginiup (I think they had a 2.4 BFS there - Looking at StreetExpress 2008 and that town looks familiar)
Perth 2nd + LT 1, LT 2, LT 3
Spencers Brook I believe also had an appliance up there
Bakers Hill were also heard
Plus the 2 big choppers 681, 682. Can't remember which little choppers but there were 2 of them.
There were a couple of other pumps around but they didn't have their station names I'm guessing one of them was Perth 2nd. (All the pumps were there for asset protection.)
2 FESA chaplains were also on site.

Cops wise:
Polair 61
TEGS Highway Patrol * ~6-8
HL102? - may have been 202.
AH202
Plus their main regional command post and a Cruiser

SJA:
Ambo's as required
I did see a first aid van
LSU1 made an appearance at around 2300.

That my friends is all I can remember for now off the top of my head.

[Tyranus]

Of the appliances we saw going there were:
Parkerville 3.4 + LT
Glen Forrest LT 1 + LT 2
Didn't get to see the rest, past each other at around 100km/h on the main road. But was a fairly large contingent.

[Tyranus]

Oh yeah there was also
DM Hills
CFM Cockburn
and another lovely bunch of DM's/CFM's trying to work out what was going on.

Numerous DEC appliances too. Mainly tankers...looked like 2.4's or 3.4's

[treeny]

Sounds like u have a good memory tyranus. Good on ya for doin the graveyard shift. Cockburn SES might have taken an OPS Caravan up there. they have 2 of them i think.

[written_ficton]

LOL @ request for units turned out!

Wouldnt presume it was that funny Tyranus? I merly asked to see what units would have turned out to a fire like that.

[philby]

Basso 2nd 1.4 was at the front with..
Northam GPA
northam ranger
Inkpen 1.4
Meckering something.
various private units. (very impressed with some of the tank designs!)

[auntys_eyes]

LOL @ request for units turned out!

Wouldnt presume it was that funny Tyranus? I merly asked to see what units would have turned out to a fire like that.

I assume, like me, that Tyranus was laughing at the fact that, due to the size of the response, there were more units there than could be easily listed. Whilst travelling to, working on and returning from the fire i heard and dozens and dozens and dozens of callsigns. Tyranus' list above is very impressive from memory but represents only part of the total response, not including Water Corp, Western Power, traffic management, aircraft support, water supply trucks etc etc. On top of that many, many locals were out and about in their own private vehicles either fire fighting and/or providing water and earth moving equipment.