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Re: General fire discussions

Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 3:35 pm
by Bigfella78
SamW wrote: But there is still a long time left until the weather starts to cool down.
Its been a very odd summer. Hot and cold...

Fire Danger: Coastal Plain: EXTREME
Hills: EXTREME

Just got upgraded

Re: General fire discussions

Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 3:40 pm
by Fastlane
Bigfella78 wrote:
SamW wrote: But there is still a long time left until the weather starts to cool down.
Its been a very odd summer. Hot and cold...

Fire Danger: Coastal Plain: EXTREME
Hills: EXTREME

Just got upgraded
That's for tomorrow. The forecast for the next day gets issued between 1530 and 1600 every afternoon. The forecast is then issued again about 0430 (yes, it sometimes changes) for the current day.

Re: General fire discussions

Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 3:49 pm
by Bigfella78
Fastlane wrote:
Bigfella78 wrote:Its been a very odd summer. Hot and cold...

Fire Danger: Coastal Plain: EXTREME
Hills: EXTREME

Just got upgraded
That's for tomorrow. The forecast for the next day gets issued between 1530 and 1600 every afternoon. The forecast is then issued again about 0430 (yes, it sometimes changes) for the current day.
oops.. helps if you read the screen.. well what ever fire danger level today or tomorrow be safe everyone..

Re: General fire discussions

Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 5:15 am
by treeny
FIRE WEATHER WARNING
Issued at 2:50 am WDT on Friday, 16 January 2009
For the Central West, Lower West, western parts of the Central Wheat Belt and
the Upper Great Southern sub district of the Great Southern.

Very hot, fresh and gusty NE/N'ly winds are expected to cause an EXTREME fire
danger in the Central West, Lower West, western districts of the Central Wheat
Belt and the Upper Great Southern sub district of the Great Southern during
today [Friday].

Re: General fire discussions

Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 6:17 am
by Tyranus
Yep, any fire fighter in the shire of Mundaring with a pager will have received a page (or 2) telling them it is extreme, which means no venturing too far from the shire.
Sam there was the incident where we met up and managed to score little Caesers and you'd been saying that that was the 3rd incident that day. Were all of them out of your area?

Re: Significant bush/scrub fires 2008/2009

Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 9:51 am
by 4353
Going to be a seriously hot day take care if anyone gets called out

Re: General fire discussions

Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:40 am
by Bigfella78
11:35am this morning it hit 40.4°C in perth.. Glad I'm in the office today..

Re: General fire discussions

Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:47 am
by Mug
Bigfella78 wrote:11:35am this morning it hit 40.4°C in perth.. Glad I'm in the office today..
Yeah stepped outside onto the concrete with no shoes on about 8.30 this morning and just about set fire to my feet.

Re: General fire discussions

Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:48 am
by WPXZBP
34.8°C down here... humidity dropped right out to 18%.

There's also reports of a big fire near Bridgetown/Manjimup.

Mandurah 1st reported "back on airconditioned station." :lol:

Re: General fire discussions

Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 11:23 am
by Tyranus
:lol: I love it when there's a bit of humour thrown in. Sam, at the rate things are going we may yet land up helping fastlane and his team up there.

Re: General fire discussions

Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 12:44 pm
by Zebedee
Mug wrote:Yeah stepped outside onto the concrete with no shoes on about 8.30 this morning and just about set fire to my feet.
Yeah couldn't believe how hot it was when I first climbed out of bed. You're a braver man than I, going outside in bare feet ;)

Re: General fire discussions

Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 12:53 pm
by written_ficton
Mug wrote:
Bigfella78 wrote:11:35am this morning it hit 40.4°C in perth.. Glad I'm in the office today..
Yeah stepped outside onto the concrete with no shoes on about 8.30 this morning and just about set fire to my feet.
I was jogging around lake monger at that time and boy it was hot!

Re: General fire discussions

Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:14 pm
by Bigfella78
Just looked out the window of the office.. holy crap there is a hell of a lot of smoke from Two Rocks.. any reports on whats going on?

Re: General fire discussions

Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:16 pm
by Enviro
There is a fire a Landsdale Rd Darch, which has just gone thrid alarm and Claremont is the nearest backup

Re: General fire discussions

Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:25 pm
by SamW
Just got home from work, been out in the sun all day today, it was 30 degrees at 5:45am when I got to work. We started at 6am to try and beat the heat, didn't really work...Been away from the radio all day and it seems like its been chaos today. Just been listing to 6IP and they seem to be doing really well considering all the jobs on. Our 3.4 went to the Kings park incident today, got turned out at 7:30.
Sam there was the incident where we met up and managed to score little Caesers and you'd been saying that that was the 3rd incident that day. Were all of them out of your area?
Sorry, I can't remember that far back, I only remember the important things, the Food!!