Major fires 2006/07

JG-103 · Post by **JG-103** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:27 pm

nah, it was all over by about 1900. When Mandogalup got another call out

chrissss · Post by **chrissss** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 6:35 pm

2 in 1 day

hooray
record by far for the last year

chris

WPXZBP · Post by **WPXZBP** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 10:24 pm

Why hooray?

Surely as a firefighter you DON'T want fires occurring?

Fastlane · Post by **Fastlane** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:06 am

WPXZBP wrote:Why hooray?

Surely as a firefighter you DON'T want fires occurring?

youthful exuberance?

anyone know where there may be a largeish fire at present? There is a bucketload of smoke about up here today.. I'm assuming its blown in overnight from elsewhere.

chrissss · Post by **chrissss** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 3:12 pm

WPXZBP wrote:Why hooray?

Surely as a firefighter you DON'T want fires occurring?

i wrote that because our brigade hadnt recieved a call in 3 months and we never get used by the frs but now we are for some reason and our future is unforseeable at the moment also i also like helping the community

chris

WPXZBP · Post by **WPXZBP** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 4:10 pm

I put the question in because, even though I'm a vollie, I would rather we are not needed. (ie people not lighting fires, crashing cars, spilling chemicals etc) It wasn't to point fingers or anything like that.

chrissss · Post by **chrissss** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 5:00 pm

WPXZBP wrote:I put the question in because, even though I'm a vollie, I would rather we are not needed. (ie people not lighting fires, crashing cars, spilling chemicals etc) It wasn't to point fingers or anything like that.

agreed mate

chris

JG-103 · Post by **JG-103** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:32 pm

chrissss wrote:
we never get used by the frs but now we are for some reason

CW101, that was a once off- a technicality- they didnt ask for us, they asked for a 2.4 and thankfully 6IP made the mistake of thinking we had one otherwise we wouldnt have been called, instead Canningvale 2.4 or South Coogee 2.4 would have been called out instead.

So...

Fastlane · Post by **Fastlane** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 5:23 pm

That depends what shire it is in of course, and the availability of FRS appliances. If the fire was in Town of Kwinana, they have to use an appliance from your shire before they use another shires BFB..

JG-103 · Post by **JG-103** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 9:29 pm

Trust me fastlane, its in the shire of kwinana and they still send out success or rockingham first as 2nd alarm before they even turn out the Kwinana VFRS.

Example, there was a fire in our old area, hope valley and succes were there, and there was a car v house in parmelia, and rockingham 1st went there, whilst the Kwinana VFRS vehicles are sitting unused in the station.

Happens all the time.

Fastlane · Post by **Fastlane** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 6:59 am

Doesn't apply to Fire & Rescue appliances.. only BFB's (which is what I thought I said??). Kwinana VFRS isnt owned or operated by the shire.

Fastlane · Post by **Fastlane** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 7:20 am

VERY HIGH fire danger in Perth today with EXTREME in the hills - first time for the season (and quite early on too).. means a Total Fire Ban.

EXTREME also in lots of other inland areas.. not good!

Those that are interested, see http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDW15000.shtml

JG-103 · Post by **JG-103** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 7:26 am

Still, other bush fire brigades (south coogee) is still being called out before us even though our station is 5 mins away and its in the town of kwinana.

Its strange how i get a different reading/understanding of your posts

Did anyone else get that fastlane was only referring to bfb???

Fastlane · Post by **Fastlane** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 8:41 am

Fastlane wrote:That depends what shire it is in of course, and the availability of FRS appliances. If the fire was in Town of Kwinana, they have to use an appliance from your shire before they use another shires BFB

chrissss · Post by **chrissss** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 2:32 pm

anyone know if the fire in toodyay is contained yet??/

chris