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Black smoke coming from Mt Lawley/Maylands - what is it?

Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 4:58 pm
by meg
Hi all

I don't have my scanner at work but I can see the plume of very black smoke coming from around Maylands/Mt Lawley. Does anyone know what's happened? Looks similar to when that tyre/car wrecking place went up a year or so ago.

Cheers
Meg

Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 5:10 pm
by Fastlane
Bayswater.

WA Salvage is completely involved in fire.

Can see it from up here at Quinns Rocks!

Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 5:14 pm
by vk6hgr
Fastlane wrote:Bayswater.

WA Salvage is completely involved in fire.
It's Morley/Beechboro WA Salvage.

This is from my house about 2.5Kms away (note news chopper) :-)

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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 6:07 pm
by JG-103
Jus caught the news, the smoke is toxic. Im goin to get my scanner 4 sure. Id take it everyone is in BA. Does anybody know how many brigades are there? How the hell does a whole warehouse go up so fast? I can understand the would and mulch piles outside but not the entire place :!: Unless if it was deliberate.

Vk, u better turn of ur air con and stuff stuff under the doors, unless the wind is blowing it the other way.
By the looks of the picture d smoke is goin ur way but i could be wrong

Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 6:19 pm
by vk6hgr
JG-103 wrote: Vk, u better turn of ur air con and stuff stuff under the doors, unless the wind is blowing it the other way.
Fortunately the wind appears to be going the other way, but I still am getting some of the smell and it's putrid!

Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 6:35 pm
by Millsy
vk6hgr,

Garden looks green though :lol:

Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 6:52 pm
by vk6hgr
Millsy wrote:vk6hgr,

Garden looks green though :lol:
haha. actually... it's skewed a bit because I took the photo from the roof. It's my garden plus several neighbours in line with the shot :)

Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 6:58 pm
by meg
Thanks all - I knew there'd be info on here by the time I got home. This site is better than FESAs warnings site :o

Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 7:11 pm
by JG-103
Does anybody know what channel they are using? Im presuming its simplex so i wont be able to pick it up anyway but im curious. Has anybody heard anything about it on 6AR?

bayswater fire

Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 7:44 pm
by rich
They are using channel 96 as fire ground channel not all are in ba
when i left they were only doing asset protection as wa salage was
unsavable even after 15mins when left there were 4 brigades there
with more still coming and if some can tell me how to post up pics
and video i will post them as i videoed from in front of wa salvage.

Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 7:46 pm
by JG-103
U should have sold it to channel 7 or somethin :D

bayswater fire

Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 7:53 pm
by rich
They were already there they got there just before me and i was only about 5 mins after bassendean arrived i helped them set up there standpipe as that was all i could do as i'm not frs but bush firery and
you know what the response was when i asked if they wanted a hand
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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 7:55 pm
by JG-103
I sure do

Re: bayswater fire

Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 7:57 pm
by meg
rich wrote:that was all i could do as i'm not frs but bush firery and
you know what the response was when i asked if they wanted a hand
ROFL! I can well imagine! Good on you for trying to give a hand though :)

Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 9:25 pm
by yorky
hah Gavin on my way home the WAPOL command post in charge something-101 said that the environment people wanted everyone in the surrounding houses to get the hell off there roofs and evacuate right away! The mike bike was like err I can get everyone inside but evac? 101 said thats what they said, and what they say goes. I lost signal after that :cry: