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DEC Fire Vehicles

Post by AVBFS »

Dose anyone know if DEC vehicles are fitted with sirens has well as lights?
and if there is any restrictions in the manner of which they drive to incidents?

i ask this due to an incedent i incounted while enroute to a fire.(cut off)
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i believe this has already been discussed

in this topic: http://warsug.info/viewtopic.php?f=3&t= ... Law#p76211

to my knowledge they do not have sirens therefore can not got priority 1 to jobs......
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Post by written_ficton »

I have a friend who work's within DEC and he says that they have no need to have sirens as any incidents they usually attend are going well before they attend.

Otherwise like the Pine Plantation its private property and no need to use the vehicles on the road.

*Edit* This was in response to two posts which has since been removed.
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**wow im confised... pretty sure there was a few more posts there!

anyway, i think your spot on WF. Although i have noticed some DEC managers driving 4wd with full light bars and sirens on them... it was interesting to see!... ill take a photo next time i see!
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wen i have been out at fire a have seen DEC rock up lights and sirens before !!
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I thought that too but it ended up being a ventriloquist fire engine being smart.
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LighteningCrashes wrote:ventriloquist.
ROFL! =D> =D> =D> =D> =D>
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:P
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Post by firefighter_wannabe »

Theyre starting to fit some of the metro appliances with sirens from what i hear, but thats just for serious situations requiring swift assistance (ie Rolystone)
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Post by dlcat1 »

I'm actually wondering about sirens as an occ health and safety issue. It makes sense to me to use them to warn people in smokelogged areas at incidents you are moving past them, particularly if you are working in or around noisy and heavy plant. Maybe that doesn't need a full siren, just a simple yelp activated by the horn when the beacons are on would do for me.
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