07-Feb-09

Written by Andrew

Saturday, 07 February 2009 14:28

New Section!

Incident Updates

The NSW RFS Major Fire Updates have been added to the website here, under the Incident Updates Section. The Incident Updates section can be accessed via the Main Menu in the sidebar to the left. NSWFB Incident Updates will be added soon, just a few issues to sort out first with the addition of the incident feed.

NSW RFS Major Fire Updates
NSWFB Incident Updates

New Web Address

(Reminder)

Please remember that the new URL for the Sydney Fire Website is now www.sydneyfire.net.au , but the old URL www.sydneyfire.org will continue to redirect to the the website address for 3 months

New Forum Category

Incidents

An Incidents Category has been added to the forums so that you can post news and updates of any incidents you hear occuring. a NSW and Australian Incidents forum has been added. The Australian Incidents forum is for any incident you hear of that is occuring outside of NSW in Australia.

if the new forum category is utilized we can create a record of incidents that occur and we hear on the fire stream/scanner

Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 February 2009 19:46

Shout Box

Latest Message: 2 days, 4 hours ago

glen walda : any one know whats going on in the tahmoor bargo area
Mike : Hope to have it back up by tonight
Mike : All streams down due to power failure, Bugger
Darryl Schlo : Nope, down again
Sandy : working again! thanks mike!
Sam : Yea Sandy, I lost connection years ago. Lol.
Sandy : anyone else not able to connect?
gary : .
Alan : Jason. Railcorp is on GRN. You do not 'block frequencies' on GRN, you block unwanted Talkgroups. If you block a frequency you'll lose other users too.
Clinton : Battery Acid spill
tom : rta says chem spill?
tom : hvy hazmat rolling lights/siren down pennathills rd?
Jason : Oops may be the wrong freq
Jason : Need to block Freq: 419.2500. Seems to be Rail Corp security
Sam : Hey all, anyone listening to the digital grn in the Horsley Park area, Cumberland Zone, what frequency do you pick them up on? Thanks in advance.
Alan : Stuck on buffering for me too!
Glenn : stuck on buffering or is it my pc
Glenn : hey
Graeme Grego : Does any body know what the helicopter flying around Blaxland is looking for !!!
Christiaan Z : can something be done to make it compatible on macs?
Mike : thanks will have a look
Darryl Schlo : Mike - you might want to have a look at your power supply as the battery indicator is flashing in the top right hand corner of the display and it beeps about every 15 seconds. Darryl
Sandy : Hi mike - it seems that the new scanner is very quick to time out on a channel and change to the next. Sandy
Mike : stream back up, please provide feedback as I have a new scanner connected
Mike : sorry but scanner will remain off line untill sunday morning due to issues with the reprogramming
Mike : Hi All, the streams are currently down till tomorrow (sat) due to the scanner being replaced, should be back up within 24hours.
dxj8 : Hi Christiaan Z, re yr post about the DEOHS Regentville & O Hills got 2 calls to it, if you were talking about wed 4th Jan when you were listening.
Andy : There has recently been yet another MOU signed between the DoD and FRNSW about that place, I havnt been bothered to read it yet but there is probably some new protocol in there, who knows
Andy : Christiaan, those days havnmt changed, probably the response times have. I know that facility very VERY well having worked for all 3 services that either go there or that were stationed in there.
Darryl Schlo : stream gone again
Christiaan Z : ok but what happened to the days when 86, 102, regentville rfs, orchard hills rfs and mulgoa rfs got activated at the same time because of the type of facility it is?
Andy : Because the place is so close to 86 & 102, more often than not, they get there and stand the RFS down because they get there
Andy : Yes the facility is in RFS area, but due to the nature of the facility, FRNSW are required to respond
Christiaan Z : ok was listening to a live feed scanner lat night and p86, p102 got responded to afa but no rfs
Sam : I believe that is the case Christiaan
Christiaan Z : just confirming that orchard hills defence establishment is a mua area?
Mike : the main stream was down the new stream was still working, all ok now
Andrew : I believe it is
Coops : heya, is the stream down at the moment? I get nothing but buffering, two PC's with different ISP's. thanks
Jason : ‎4 FRNSW trucks are responding to reports of a fire at a Nursing home on Broughton Street at Rutherford - First truck onscene has confirmed there is a fire and multiple evacuations are underway.
Mike : looking now
steven : stream down
Mike : stream back up, hoora, syd maritime on stream as well for tonight
Mike : working to get it back up at present
robert milla : We have no sound.
Mike : stream down due power issues
Brendan : house cambelltown fully involved
Alan : give g a chance!
Jason : Stream stuck on buffering. Anyone else havin the same problem??? Was workin not long ago
Mike : main stream up, new stream has continued to operate