Significant bush/scrub fires 2009/2010

[gkoutlis]

VFAS has been turned out to this incident.

G

[brocks]

g like i said at about 3.30pm to the north of mt helena a thunder storm blew up from the north and would have travelled over gidgegannup,chidlow and towards york came from nowhere at disappeared quickly must have been a dry storm as we had no rain in mt helena plenty of thunder though

[gkoutlis]

Any updates on the original topic?

G

[Fastlane]

Any updates on the original topic?

G

http://www.fesa.wa.gov.au/internet/aler ... fault.aspx

[rich]

the lightnening strikes started the fires within around 5 min from when i saw the lightning while going for water from reen rd the plume of smoke from both was big and very fast taking off.the fire along reen ,toodyay rd is all put just a very long night for the mopp up crews ahead took us around 3 to 4 hrs to contain it was very fast running and weird behaviour was spotting in places up to 300m ahead.Am totally knackered now.

[hold3n]

does any one have any infomation on it how big im refering to theone one the scanner about 40 mins ago

[brocks]

3rd alarm grass and scrub fire whiteman park,large area of grass and tea tree on fire.residents from ferguson rd have just called expressing concern about their properties.kalamunda cfm has just set up control point missed name of road.joondalup 2.4 turning out,malaga wants helitacks but has just been told thats a negative.guilford 2.4 and lt have arrived,swan cheif wants east gidgie lt and 1.4 turned out,east swan lt 2,just arrived,3.06 bullsbrook lt1 turned out, 3.24 kalamunda cfm wants two more stations pumpers and larger tankers to turn out to control point for more asset protection

[auntys_eyes]

3rd alarm grass and scrub fire whiteman park,large area of grass and tea tree on fire.residents from ferguson rd have just called expressing concern about their properties.kalamunda cfm has just set up control point missed name of road.joondalup 2.4 turning out,malaga wants helitacks but has just been told thats a negative.guilford 2.4 and lt have arrived,swan cheif wants east gidgie lt and 1.4 turned out,east swan lt 2,just arrived,3.06 bullsbrook lt1 turned out

Control point is Lord St cross of Youlle-Dean - 1613 now West Swan Control, Youlle-Dean cross of Partridge
Declared 3rd Alarm - All units attend 'Fire Call'
Firegound ch 97 & 98, Command 32

Units arrived or dispatched:
Malaga Pump + LT
Kalamunda CFM
Swan CFM
Swan ICV
East Swan 2.4 + LTs
Guildford 2.4 + LT
Joondalup 2.4
Whiteman Park LTs
East Gidge 1.4 and LT
Bullsbrook 7.2 + LTs
Wanneroo 4.4? + LT
Quinns LT
Midland
Bassendean
DM Stirling
DM Swan
Belmont ICV
MLO
West Gidge

WAPol

20Ha grass and scrub
Property under threat on Woolcott Ave and Partridge St

Perth 2nd to Malaga
Welshpool 1st to Midland
Bulldozer en-route

[BuddahFRS]

FIRE GROUND CHANNEL 97

Youildine Road Control

Good to here Guildford 2.4 and LT and Bassendean 1.4 and LT going there

CFM Kalamunda just asked for units from Wanneroo to attend. mostly 2.4 4.4 and 2LT's

Fire is moving towards houses on Fergersen, Police are advising residents to stay or go

SO far all units attending Fire Call

Channels 97 and 98 as sectors and Command 32

[BuddahFRS]

CFM Kallamunda and SO from Malaga have requested 2 extra SO's to be mobilised to help with incident command

Bassendean and Midland are mobile
asking for assist protection on Partrige Street

Rubber tyre Doser mobile organized by Swan Chief

[BuddahFRS]

CFM Kallamunda and SO from Malaga have requested 2 extra SO's to be mobilised to help with incident command

Bassendean and Midland are mobile
asking for assist protection on Partrige Street

Rubber tyre Doser mobile organized by Swan Chief

1545 UCL COORDINATOR mobile to incident

Who is this and what does he do? what does UCL stand for????

[WPXZBP]

Unallocated Crown Land - Land that the Government owns but has not allocated to any body/organisation etc.

[BuddahFRS]

Unallocated Crown Land - Land that the Government owns but has not allocated to any body/organisation etc.

ah ok cool cool. cheers Wes

[vk6hgr]

Channel 32 command channel is simulcast on WAERN channel 260 - 164.125MHz.

[pacestick]

What does CFM Stand for?

west Coogie turning out