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5 years 11 months ago #192288 by Roderick Smith
180327Tu Melbourne Age - a heavy-duty tow truck at the rerailing of a tram.

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5 years 11 months ago #192324 by Roderick Smith
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180329Th Melbourne Herald Sun - USA fire funeral.

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5 years 10 months ago #193631 by Roderick Smith
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MFS fire truck gets stuck on new raised tram lines on North Tce.
Adelaide 'Advertiser' May 9, 2018.
video: Fire truck gets stuck on tram lines in Adelaide CBD.
A FIRE truck became beached on a raised segment of tram track causing traffic chaos in the CBD.
The MFS rescue vehicle was responding to a call out with other units at 6.30pm on Wednesday when the driver attempted to use the tram tracks to get around peak-hour traffic on North Tce. The accident happened in poor visibility outside Parliament House.
A MFS fire truck got stuck on the newly installed raised tram line outside Parliament House on North Tce. Picture: AAP / Brenton Edwards
As the 20-tonne fire truck slipped it landed on a car, wedging the driver side door shut. The driver was not injured and the car sustained only minor damage.
Trams were replaced with buses while the rescue effort was underway.
It took two exhausting hours for the MFS and transport personnel to prop up the truck, using planks of wood to pull it back on to the track with the aid of a heavy tow truck about 8.30pm.
Crews work to free the MFS truck from the tram track. Picture: AAP / Brenton Edwards
MFS Commander Greg Davis said when the tyre skidded off the tram track the driver knew it was too late.
“Our rescue appliance was returning from one incident and responding to another going through traffic and as they wove through, their tyre got stuck on an elevated section of tram track,” Mr Davis said.
“When that occurred it dragged the truck up on to track and it was unable to steer. By the time we were able to stop the appliance it was already off the ground.
“Being a heavy truck, weighing 20 tonnes, we had to crib it to make sure it wasn’t going to roll over before we got a heavy tow truck to pull us out.
The truck became stuck in bad weather conditions. Picture: AAP / Brenton Edwards
Mr Davis said the police and transport department did a great job supporting them while the rescue effort continued.
As for the driver, Mr Davis defended the experienced firefighter and said he had already spoken to him about the incident.
“I had a talk to the driver, he is highly experienced and being a rescue truck they go to horrible incidents all the time so they are very mindful of making sure that we get their safely,” Mr Davis said.
The MFS truck was on the tram tracks for about two hours. Picture: AAP / Brenton Edwards
“It’s a pretty dark night, it was raining and it was difficult to see with the lights of cars, so I think it was just one of those things that occur even when we are doing our best and doing it safely.
“I had a talk to him to make sure he was OK and he was still confident.
“I think the family who were in the car are keen to come down to the station with their kids and we are certainly happy to let them come down and see all the trucks and have a chat.”
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5 years 9 months ago #194352 by Roderick Smith
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180619Tu Melbourne Herald Sun iron-ore truck.

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5 years 8 months ago #194423 by Roderick Smith
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5 years 8 months ago #194444 by Roderick Smith
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5 years 8 months ago #194556 by Roderick Smith
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Firies reach for the sky as more Sydneysiders move into apartments 4 July 2018.
Fire and Rescue NSW will be equipped with $7 million in new aerial machinery, including two new ladders similar to those pictured here. Photo: Supplied
With more and more Sydneysiders living in apartments, NSW's firefighting service will be equipped with new aerial machinery designed to extinguish fires in high-rise complexes and rescue residents from buildings.
The eight new aerial appliances, comprising two aerial ladder platforms with a reach of up to 44 metres and six aerial pumpers, will cost $6.8 million and will be deployed to areas with high-density populations and high-rise buildings.
It is a significant boost to Fire and Rescue NSW's existing aerial fleet, which consists of 22 appliances predominantly deployed in Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong.
Minister for Emergency Services Troy Grant said the investment aimed to improve the agency's capacity to respond to large-scale operations such as the outbreak of major fires in shopping centres and industrial complexes, as well
multistorey unit blocks.
“There is no question our state is undergoing a massive building boom, there are cranes across our cities, and we must ensure our firefighters have the tools they need to support us in an emergency," Mr Grant said.
“We need to ensure our firefighting equipment has the capacity to extinguish fires should they break out anywhere, from modern building developments to transport and road infrastructure."
The investment follows a decision by Fire and Rescue NSW in 2016 that because of budget cuts it would remove from operation a number of its ageing specialised "Brontos" trucks, which were capable of reaching 37 metres.
The Brontos were retired from local fire stations at Hornsby and St Andrews, near Liverpool, and replaced with smaller trucks with 15-metre ladders, sparking concern in those communities about the capacity of firefighters to respond to high-rise fires.
Fire and Rescue NSW ladder machinery in operation. Photo: Supplied
FRNSW Commissioner Paul Baxter said the additional resources meant firefighters were better prepared "for anything and to help anyone, anywhere, any time''.
“FRNSW is always looking for new technologies to enhance incident response effectiveness and safety in accordance with risk factors, population demographics, and environmental conditions,'' he said.
The eight new aerial appliances are in addition to two aerial ladder platforms and one aerial pumper that were ordered earlier this year.
The NSW government, along with governments around the world, was prompted to reassess fire safety in apartment buildings after the deadly Grenfell Tower fire in London in 2017, which claimed the lives of 72 people.
In December, the Berejiklian government passed new fire safety laws, which included fines up to $1.1 million for corporations found to be using banned building products, such as the style of flammable cladding widely blamed for
exacerbating the Grenfell Tower fire.
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5 years 8 months ago #194563 by JOHN.K.
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Why cant the developers of these high rises pay for all the fancy fire equiptment?..........

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5 years 8 months ago #194565 by Lang
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"reaching to 44 metres"

Sydney has 27 buildings over 150 metres!

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