Dropping off a pump to Mills Tui a few weeks ago now.

Wednesday the 24th August 2005, as part of the fire awareness week activities stations 02, 50 and 04 station as well as a USAR QAS Officer attended the heritage listed Albion Flour Mill to participate in an exercise with different scenarios, image quality was a bit tricky.

At 2040hrs tonight (15th Aug) I got a call to a shop on fire a few doors down from the now closed Dawn theatre. A bike shop was reported with smoke issuing, a 2nd call came in shop well involved, on arrival the rear of the shop was well alight and fire was quickly extinguished with only fire damage to a bike shop with smoke damage to 2 other shops. Police are investigating the cause.

Initial time of call was 1858hrs, crews arrived to find the fibro and wood structure well alight in the front section and where able to quickly knockdown the flames, heavy smoke and asbestos where other concerns. 4 men in BA entered and extinguished further seats of fire with all out in no time. The house was used as a squat and police are investigating the cause. 526a (Redcliffe), 514a (Sandgate) and 521a (Taigum) attended.

On the 30th and 31st July the Dalby Rural fire service muster was held at Dalby show grounds, this event has been staged at the showgrounds 3 times in the past. 20 Rural Fire Brigades competed in various events to show case their skills along with a Qld Fire & Rescue Auxiliary Brigade from Tamborine. Coomera Valley Rurals took home the best overall trophy as well as a swag of prizes provided by funding by the Rural Fire Brigades Association, the association also provided the grounds for the events. Many rural brigades from around the Dalby area attended on the day and help with both organising and support making it a very enjoyable event for all who attended this muster. Members from Dalby Qld Fire & Rescue Auxiliary & Qld Ambulance where there on the day with a mock car accident to show Rural Fire Brigades mva awareness and scene preservation, this was well received by the members. Plans are already being made for the next event that promises to be bigger and better. Team event chart at the end of the weekend //// Overall winners on the day - Coomera Valley //// Knap Sack - Narangba //// Bottle Bash - Wiembilla South ////Drum Fill - Coomera Valley //// Fire Tree - Cedar Creek //// Bonus Event - Rocky Point //// Foam - Coomera Valley

On the 30th and 31st July the Dalby Rural fire service muster was held at Dalby show grounds, this event has been staged at the showgrounds 3 times in the past. 20 Rural Fire Brigades competed in various events to show case their skills along with a Qld Fire & Rescue Auxiliary Brigade from Tamborine. Coomera Valley Rurals took home the best overall trophy as well as a swag of prizes provided by funding by the Rural Fire Brigades Association, the association also provided the grounds for the events.

Many rural brigades from around the Dalby area attended on the day and help with both organising and support making it a very enjoyable event for all who attended this muster.

Members from Dalby Qld Fire & Rescue Auxiliary & Qld Ambulance where there on the day with a mock car accident to show Rural Fire Brigades mva awareness and scene preservation, this was well received by the members. Plans are already being made for the next event that promises to be bigger and better.

Team event chart at the end of the weekend //// Overall winners on the day - Coomera Valley //// Knap Sack - Narangba //// Bottle Bash - Wiembilla South ////Drum Fill - Coomera Valley //// Fire Tree - Cedar Creek //// Bonus Event - Rocky Point //// Foam - Coomera Valley

Ex Urban (Sth Coast) now in private collection

Calls came in for this fire in a hotel lift shaft at Springwood, Sth East region, on arrival lots of smoke, hotel was evacuated and crews requested an aerial appliance from Brisbane. On finding the seat of the fire it was ascertained to be a store room, fire was extinguished soon after, the store room being of cement structure no real damage caused. A good diverse show of vehicles 635 A - Beenleigh
638 A - Woodridge
641 A - Loganlea
510 A - Acacia Ridge
517 A - Mt Gravatt
850 O - Special Ops - BA Response
501 I - Kemp Place - Ladder Platform

New Ladder Platform for Brisbane This is the new ladder platform for Brisbane, images of this where taken on the 22nd February 2005 at the new Varley factory opening day, truck was not yet complete despite its appearance. .......This vehicle is currently the largest reaching operational ladder platform in this country at 42mtrs (137 feet) and the ONLY fire appliance of its type in Australia to have the Cobra CCS fitted....for more information about this system visit http://www.ccs-cobra.com

Dept Emergency Services Rescue Helicopter , Bell 412

Ex Sth Coast car, interesting and unique not to many in Australia, Diesel motor.

More details to follow.

Images taken at Adelaide St with crews training on the LP.

Wakerly Dryer Fire , 30 station and 15 station attended Green Camp rd today at around 10 30hrs to reports of a cloth dryer fire, on arrival crews reported smoke (code 2) and 2 men in BA went into action case 1 a removed the dryer, fire fighter then ventilated.

The Boyne Island smelter is located near Gladstone in Queensland. BSL is Australia's largest aluminium smelter, currently producing more than 510,00 tonnes of aluminium a year. Commencing operations in 1982, BSL underwent a major expansion in 1997, doubling its capacity and making it one of the world's technologically advanced smelters. This vehicle has dedicated BA and vertical rescue equipment as well as the usual fire equipment and supports a purpose built Scania pump due for completion 2005.

More information to follow on the vehicle, Mt Cotton had no such brigade.

This vehicle has been restored by a private collector and is immaculate.

B505 Mack Thermodyne........

Metro Brisbane number 7, the B505 Mack is powered by a 6 cylinder petrol motor, its also fitted with a 50 foot wheeled escape ladder, one of only 6 imported from the USA it is still in it's original left hand drive configuration, replacements that where right hand drive where in the 200 and 75 series that arrived in 1942........................

The body was designed by a Mr. Viv Dowling Motor Office Bris Metro Fire Brigade, it has a twin valve pump capable of 3,375 ltr per minute, the vehicle also carries a Winn Rotary geared pump.

A visit to Woodhill today, hosted by the 1st and 2nd officers I had a look around and took some pictures of the brigades vehicles, a great looking bunch of fire appliances.

The brigade was originally founded in 1967

Visit the Woodhill Rural Fire Brigade website at, http://www.geocities.com/woodhillfire

Bus Explosion City Just another Friday night in Brisbane city, terrorists blew up a bus in the center of the city that was packed with UNI students celebrating being blown up. The joint emergency services EXERSICE run by Qld Ambulance Service was held to train emergency workers for the possible out comes of such an incident happening in our city. Police used 5kg of explosives off site to cause the damage you see to the bus, this caused problems initially as more damage than thought was caused and problems occurred loading the bus for transport. Police, Fire, Ambulance and SES where on hand for the exercise including Doctors, Nurses and Medivac teams, the UNI students could have won an Oscar for their betrayal or victims and gave the whole exercise that real feel!

Bus Explosion City



Just another Friday night in Brisbane city, terrorists blew up a bus in the center of the city that was packed with UNI students celebrating being blown up.



The joint emergency services EXERSICE run by Qld Ambulance Service was held to train emergency workers for the possible out comes of such an incident happening in our city.



Police used 5kg of explosives off site to cause the damage you see to the bus, this caused problems initially as more damage than thought was caused and problems occurred loading the bus for transport.


Police, Fire, Ambulance and SES where on hand for the exercise including Doctors, Nurses and Medivac teams, the UNI students could have won an Oscar for their betrayal or victims and gave the whole exercise that real feel!

Vehicle donated to Papua New Guinea.

Roma Steets Pumper/Rescue was the old Caboolture unit.

1 stations (Kemp Place) LP , Brisbane City

Around 16 15hrs '000'' call's came in reporting car into house Langton and Merideth Streets Banyo, 11 (Hendra) and 21 (Taigum) responded.



11 station on scene word back car into garage stop on all others Qps & Qas on scene.



From location witness's state that car was doing burnouts and fish tailing down the street and lost control causing the car to crash into garage structure, force of the impact moved large 4 x 4 inside almost a meter into next doors fence and demolished car structure, crashed vehicle suffered extensive damage.



Police detained 1 person and he was taken away for questioning, vehicle was a friends car he had borrowed, no persons injured scene cleared at 16 29hrs

2 car Mva at Oxford and Hants Street Hamilton this morning at around 09 30am.

1 can ran a stop sign crashing into the second vehicle sending it into the shop that was open and trading at the time, the instigator of the incident then crashed into the telegraph pole.

The blue car was carrying over $16,000 worth of bikes that ended up on the sidewalk in bits.

Driver of white car, young female taken to Royal Brisbane Hospital with minor injuries and shock and shop keeper older female treated on scene for shock also.

2 Appliances from Qld Fire & rescue attended with a Technical Rescue vehicle required to shore up store front before vehicle could be removed, damage to the shop was extensive as to both motor cars, Energex isolated power before car was removed due to threat of collapse @ 11 33am.

Ex-Ipswich 1984 Ford F350 , Mills Tui Body and Darley JMP400 Pump, Tank holds 500ltrs Water.

This vehicle is now part of a private collection.

Brisbane's 20mtr Hydraulic Platform on an Acco soon to be replaced by Australia's largest Ladder Platform.

Edu Vehicles, Mitsubishi Pumps, New Isuzu, Holden Crewman, Recue 40, 4x4 Water Tanker!

Gold Coasts light attack vehicle, new design and colours for QFRS.

I at first listed this as Southports, thanks to Dave for setting me straight !

Matt

Looking great as always!
This TAP is now located at Sth Port.

Interesting vehicle.

Various images of various competitors.

At the recent Tamborine Mountain Aux fire games.

At around 12 40 hrs today (Sat 19-03- 2005) calls started coming in of a factory on fire at Robinson Rd East at Geebung. (thanks Michael A & Trish for constant updates)

Upon being informed of this I walked to my back door to see large plumes of black smoke from that direction, as I started to head that way further details came in of 921, 916 and 911 responding.

The actual fire was at the rear of Robinson Rd East on Morrisby St Geebung in a hose business of some type, on arrival crews gave a ‘code 2 well involved message’ and stated the structure was some 10 x 15 and a shed on fire, after the smoke had cleared it seemed that it was in fact pallet racking against a shed that had caught fire , the racks contained large rolls of PVC hose, the cause of the smoke and intense fire.

The racking was up against a shed and there was some smoke and fire damage to this building.

Fire was under control some 15 minutes later and a stop message transmitted.

In attendance where the following

911 heavy urban pump tanker
916 light urban pump
516 emergency tender
921 light urban pump

FCU99 Fire control unit
802 Ba Hazmat
Oscar 5-0
Charlie 2
Bris City Council
Energex
Qld Ambulance
Qld Police

When water is added to oil it expands some 1,000 + times! If the oil is on fire and you try and use water this is what happens! NEVER EVER PUT WATER IN OIL ON FIRE OR OTHERWISE!...........The results can kill or mame you for life and destroy your belongings or home!

Drum factory fire on Southside Coopers Plains saw \"D\" shift with a make pumps 6 around 0330am

Units had multiple ground and monitors in action before being able to get in and tackle the fire with 4 lines Case 1; 3 lines Case2.


In attendance
910 (Acacia Ridge)
913 (Rocklea)
917/517 (Mt Gravatt)
901a ; 201; LP1 (Kemp Place)
903 (Annerley)
802
FCU99
BA37
RACE 1
and Oscar 50

Around 12 today fire calls where made to a structure fire , multiple calls , at Petrie to an empty sports centre.

On arrival flames where flowing from the structure as images show and make pumps 3 was called.

924, 925, 921 all arrived and extinguished fire.

Oscar 5-0 arrived and BA 37 also attended the area.

FCU99 and 802 (BA HAz) where turned out and stopped.

Cause is suspicious.

Interesting to see the 7 helicopter circle then land in an effort to obtain some footage from a person in the general crowd who had a handy cam, this person remains at large with otherwise usuable images.

I use this term as the truck literally did fall over after stabilizing jacks where forgotten.

915 Attended to provide clean up for some diesel fuel and truck was returned to its designed position within a few hours, no one hurt.

More common in Urban Rural fringe area’s and used by Auxiliary brigades.

A new generation of fire applaince.

Mercedes and Scania type appliances.

A 4x4 urban Appliance used if rural fringe or rural area\'s.

Varley opening day was a chance to see some new appliances and this one was the biggest surprise to me.

With all the trucks looking the same these days its nice to see something different.

First thing to notice is the fact that its a rural truck and is in fact 2 wheel drive.

4,000 ltrs water an ICS and Comms center, Lighting mast, monitor (placed correctly makes a fine curtain mist over the vehicle) Microwave oven (240 volt converter) and is about to be fitted with basic road rescue gear.

Another thing you will notice is no BA! This brigade is evaluating their own a special mask system that does not require air cylinders and allows good breathing in some instances.

At around 13 45hrs reports where coming in of a shed on fire at Deception Bay , located in a street not far from the Deception Bay Auxiliary fire station once crews arrived they where quickly on scene.

On arrival large volumes of smoke where issuing and initial precautionary word back was shed and possibly house on fire, this was quickly changed to just the shed.

Crew from 929 Redcliffe also arrived on scene but where not needed, shed was a total loss.

On the 20th heard Narangba rurals book off at a job so I went to see what they where doing.

Very friendly and proficient and some great shots , thanks guys and gals.

Spotted just the other day at the workshops it had the extra axle added due to weight and braking.

The vehicle is basically a refrigerated pantec with all the usual gear needed for such and specialised machine.

Photos taken n a trip to Tweed Heads in NSW.

Taken at station on my recent visit to the Gold Coast , Thanks Aaron

Canungra Army Base is protected by the \'Tenix Fire & Resue Service\' a private fire protection company.

Located in the Gold Coast hinterland or Beaudesert Shire Hinterland (depends who you ask) this very large area is protected by Tenix.

Tenix operates 1 striker type unit with 500ltrs water , 1 Medium Pump with 1000ltrs water and VW powered GAAM pump and an International Acco with 3000ltrs water.

All vehicles are either ex CFA or are based on designs used in that area.

Tenix Fire & Rescue also operate another Acco at the Greenbank base, and have around 5 appliances at this time.

The station is staffed by two full time officers on weekly rotations and fire fighters are called in similar to QFRS auxiliary systems, with all staff being on call on weekends.

The Tenix Fire & Rescue are accredited and fitted with BA, the smaller striker unit is often called upon to back up Auxillary vehicles from Canungra with MVA\'s and alike when crew numbers are low, some members from Tenix are also QFRA members.

Both older vehicles are due for replacement with the Isuzu being a popular rumour.

Canungra QFRS station 22 operates an Isuzu Urban pumper rescue, with the rurals operating a smaller Isuzu pump with 2 Nissan Patrol strikers and a Toyota Land Cruiser striker.

This beast of a machine is just great up close (and in picture of couse)

Rescued from a mine company in Melbourne this truck arrived cab chassis only was painted restored and rebuilt.

Auto and deisel this truck has a 6 cylinder deisel pump, carries 5,000ltrs water BA and all the usual gear!

Mid size rural unit, most rural fire appliances in Queensland are yellow in colour.

Great little truck this , high pressure and volume pump on a Ford Trader Turbo Diesel cab chassis, a different design to the old style, notice the plates.

MK450 Pump
4000ltrs water
4 x 4

A great new unit!

Some nightime shots of the Varley commander that was in Brisbane.

If you go to see this vehicle expecting to see a Firepac you will be very disappointed
this is a completely different vehicle!

Located at Yarraman Place Geebung Varley has one if Commanders here in
Brisbane for the week, its sitting in the front gate and all are welcome to have a look.

This is the first time there has been one to Brisbane, also this is the last of this series
built.

Thanks to Varley for allowing me to take the images.

Chubb Pacesetter

Chubbs entry into the fire appliance market in 1977-78 the Pacesetter was ahead of its time with a rear V8 Diesel Perkins engine and a front mounted Godiva UMP 3500lpm pump, Low level crew exit door, full air brake system and automatic transmission.

The chassis is a Reynolds Boughton Scorpio chassis.

The vehicle carries 1800 ltrs water and 130ltrs foam, the pump is located behind a front lift up panel where the single red light is located.

This vehicle is one of 5 Chubb units used by SA Fire Service, 2 even had 50ft wheeled escapes but where later removed.

The design was way ahead of its time and the vehicle resembles today’s Firepacs

*Information used from various sources including the Internet and Steven Schueler’s great book ‘Fire Engines in Australia and New Zealand.

This vehicle is now privately owned and is being restored to its former glory , all that needs to be done is to refit the revolving light’s on the front of the vehicle and it all but done.

House fire today at Hendra , was just a back room of a highset house , 911 (hendra)
and 904 (Windsor) attended with Alpha 3 in tow (AD Cawcutt? Hendra?) Also after I
left BA37 arrived (BA37 is replenishment from 2A Roma St)

Alpha 3 got a nice free car wash, 4 men in BA all over in minutes , Hendra (911) is
down the road 2 minutes.

Rode Road Unit Fire

Around 07 30hrs caught radio message of 916 (Chermside Pump) & 516 (same ET)
Going to Rode (row-dee) Road for some sort of fire, didn’t pay all that much attention till Firecom came back with multiple triple 0’s (Triple zero is Australian emergency number all services)

First trucks pulling up reported smoke and flame in evidence (and lots of it), quickly ran out the door only to realize on arrival have spare camera as other is getting fixed, note to self learn how to use it and brush hair before going to fire!

Best picks I could manage sorry, 1 female occupant accounted for, 916,516,BA37, Oscar 5-0 and 921 also 2 x Ambos and 2 x Police in attendance.

Around 11pm tonight whilst in the city and on way home started to hear of calls to house on fire Bridgeman Downs,Tiverton Ave , as we started to head that way 1st trucks arrived and gave 'house well alight make pumps 3' (2 pumps where already responding)

House was a single story luxury house secluded some distance from road and with a long and winding driveway, water relay was put to work, about 70% of the roof was destroyed by fire making the centre area of the house dangerous to enter due to the possibility of collapse.

Owner's where on scene and upset , after gaining permission to take images just grabbed a couple and go away.

Not long after that firecom sent another in the middle just in case one got there sooner.

FCU was then responded on a 3-0 (normal conditions) and 802 (BA HAzmat) On turnout.

In the end the following where there.

924 (Eatons Hill)
923 (Arana Hills)
916 (Chermside)
516 (Chermside Emergency Tender)
802 (Ba Hazmat)
FCU99 (Fire Control Unit)
FIU (Fire Investigator)
Car 1-0 (Officer)
Police , Ambulance and Energex (Power company)

These images are from the 119 year old house that caught fire and I featured previously through this site, images where taken by Michael Aisthorpe, with thanks to him on spectacular images.

This is the new smaller Bronto - used in areas where the larger vehicles are not required this is a new design and departs from the large 4 Axle Brontos, the vehicle has a 27 Mtr reach and is the first of its type (3 or 4 axles) in Queensland to have its own pump a N40 rosenbauer pump fitted. no high pressure, until now the other similar models have relied on a 2nd pump to provide and project water, this vehicle also has a Foam tank.

Air Show Amberley 2004 Below are the details for the two applainces , sorry no details for the grass fire unit.************TITAN Fire Appliance***Engine 6V92TA DDEC III 350kW (500HP) @ 2310RPM 1676Nm @ 1500 RPM***Transmission Allison HT740 4 speed***Weight 14320 (gvm)***Performance 0 to 80km/h within 24 seconds***Top Speed 105km/h***Fording Depth 1000mm***Water Tank 2800ltr's***Foam Tank 400ltr's***Pump Delivery 2100lt's/min @ 1400kpa***Range 57mtr's************T R I D E N T Fire Appliance***Engine 8V92TA 403kW (540HP) @ 2300RPM 1969Nm @ 1400RPM***Transmission Twin Disc 6 Speed***Weight 2219kg (gvm)***Acceleration 0 to 80km/h within 27 seconds***Top Speed 110km/h***Fording Depth 600mm***Water Tank 5'500ltrs***Foam Tank 900ltr's***Roof Monitor 3'500 ltrs/min @ 1000kpa***Range of 60mtr's***Bumper Monitor800ltr's/min @1000kpa***Range of 30mtr's

Fire in Scrap heap today at Metal Corp, Neuman Rd's and Robinson Rd's Geebung, started around 15-20hrs under control around 18-00hrs still being worked on around 21-00hrs

Retired QFRS Acco fire truck repainted and used by the SES on the Gold Coast 1 of several they operate.

Each year at Paradise Point on the Gold Coast there is an Emergency Services Day in the Park , these are images from 2004! A great day this is my second year and cant wait till next year, enjoy.

Hollywell (937) is a Mercedes Atego pumper rescue combination, here is a display held at the recent day in the park with a scenario or a MVA (motor vehicle accident) complete with fake casualties, also in use is the new MVA kit with tools like the glass saw and various boards and shields for persons and firies alike.

A great display by the firies and ambos, thanks guys and girls great effort!

Each year at Paradise Point on the Gold Coast there is an Emergency Services Day in the Park , these are images from 2004! A great day this is my second year and cant wait till next year, enjoy.

632 based at Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast is a Simon Snorkel on a Scania chassis.

Each year at Paradise Point on the Gold Coast there is an Emergency Services Day in the Park , these are images from 2004! A great day this is my second year and cant wait till next year, enjoy.

CR40 based at Robina on the Gold Coast at Brisbane is a composite rescue vehicle and incorporates many vehicles in 1, mobile comms, rescue, heavy rescue, chemicals, radiation, gas leaks, road rescue, combined spaces just to name a few tasks this vehicle is competent of.

Each year at Paradise Point on the Gold Coast there is an Emergency Services Day in the Park , these are images from 2004! A great day this is my second year and cant wait till next year, enjoy.

Wasp Creek Rural Fire Brigade Fire Boat.

Each year at Paradise Point on the Gold Coast there is an Emergency Services Day in the Park , these are images from 2004! A great day this is my second year and cant wait till next year, enjoy.

Each year at Paradise Point on the Gold Coast there is an Emergency Services Day in the Park , these are images from 2004! A great day this is my second year and cant wait till next year, enjoy.

Today near Archerfield I was going to look at the Cooper Plains as a few trucks had booked off at the factory fire at Eazy Gleam products , I phoned Trish and she agreed to meet me there, about 5 minutes away a call came in for a crashed aeroplane at Archerfield Airport (small local aerodrome), diverting to there a twin winged aircraft clipped it wings and spun off the run way 2 people walked away however 1 male received oxy viva treatment on scene and was in shock.

Information on VH-BCI
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Some three hours after being made aware of this incident I was finally able to get
away from work and attend, one of the first fires I have been to that I couldn't stay so
I missed out on many good pics as I was there maybe 20 mins and had to go.

An interesting fire for me , the fire was at 'Ezy Gleam' products , my
knowledge of this company is that they sell chemicals predominantly to the car
industry, so many solvents and nasty stuffs.

My first surprise was when I first saw the smoke in the morning around 9am there
was lots of it then nothing! On my arrival there was no smoke at all but every now and
again a large fire ball would erupt and then disappear as soon as it got there with a
small cloud of black smoke.

In a news media interview the LP operator actually stated that they thought the fire
was out until a huge fire ball exploded around him and a 40 gallon drum woshed past
him way above the fire (he quickly got out of there!)

Again from what I could see all the offices where destroyed at the front of the building
on the second level and the fire was basically playing with fire crews when I got there
at 12 30 showing itself momentarily (no pics it was so fast, but spectacular)

Incident : House Fire
Location: Burpengary Road Narangba , Brisbane
In Attendance: 925 (Petrie)
927 (Deception Bay)
OR27 (Deception Bay Light Attack)
Charlie 2-0 (two zero) Area Director ??
FIU (Fire Investigator)
Various Police detectives and uniformed
Qld Ambulance

A 119 Year Old house went up in flames on Sunday in what is being described as 'Arson' by Police after two teenage boys where seen loitering near the house no long after the blaze started, the boys are as the say assisting the police with their enquiries.

Fire quicly took hold of the historic house with little or no hope of putting it out.

First crew arriving 925 reports code 2 (structure) code 99 (well involved) from all accounts and condition of the house on my arrival the house went up very well destroying not only the house but land and bush and storage sheds around the property.

Reports from people living in area was that house was under repair for some time and had become a fire hazard with letters to council stating this, gentleman seemed pleased with the phone call he gets to make in the morning , no doubt a 'I told you so' coming for some lucky council employee.

Last crews left scene at 16 38hrs with time of call unknown but believed to be just before 1pm.

High winds and dry conditions caused headachs for Brisbane and surounding regions with many fires going, images are from Brisbane Metro area, Tones Road Fire at Mansfield Saturday 14th. Units attending were 917(Mt Gravatt); 921(Taigum from Northside); 902(Roma Street); 991(Day Pump); FCU99

At Camira on the 8th August 2004 at around 4 30pm reports came in of a B Double Truck (Car Transporter) roll over on the Gailes motorway, initial reports had a vehicle on fire also that was ejected from the rig, this fire was put out by attending fire crews and by standers and this incident caused major traffic problems!

Cars and rear trailer (1 of 2 trailers) ended up down a steep embankment as well as many vehicles from the truck, also other vehicles became crushed under the trailer and those that remained on the vehicle became mangled.

The truck (tractor) suffered very little damage with the worst being inflicted on the two trailers and vehicles on the transporter.

The truck stopped just a short distance of the over pass barrier and we can only guess what may have happened had it gone over that landing on the busy traffic below at high speeds.

Attending was 944 (Karana Downs) and 918 (Oxley), 918 were given a return to station before arrival.

I arrived many hours after the incident and took the following images, 944 returned to station a little after 8 30pm.

On The 4th of August 2004 Qld Fire and Rescue started to use blue and red light combinations.

Here are some images.

My good friend Trish organized a night time visit to her local station, the crew could not have been nicer and I thank them and of course Trish THANKS!!!

Pictured is the Mercedes Atego, new for this station and a F series ET (emergency tender) kind of new, this vehicle replaces the old F series that went to Caboolture (also featured on this site).

Images taken by AEVP with thanks to Mills Tui Brendale
http://www.mills-tui.com.au

This is the training house that was at the OLD Lytton QFRA Academy, it was set alight many many time’s for training purposes through gas lines throughout the structure and then put out again by either fire fighters or a system of water sprinklers throughout.

These group of images where taken the same day as the HOTPAD images and was a symbolic action to signify the end of an era, as part of our invitation when I was active with Samford Rural Fire Brigade , we provided protection to the outside perimeter, very impressive night.

On Sunday the 6th of June we travelled to Toowoomba to see the stations and visit the museum , pics in another section.

A great day was had and we meet some very nice people.

Toowoomba is situated in the South Western Region of the Queensland Fire & Rescue Service.
The South Western Region runs from Toowoomba in the east, west to the South Australian border and south to the New South Wales border. The regions major city is Toowoomba with most of the population concentrated in the eastern part of the region.

Toowoomba is the base for the Region's Headquarters and Fire Communications Centre. The QFRS South Western Region's extensive training complex is also located in this centre, which incorporates the State's first Confined Space Training Facility, and trains permanent and auxiliary firefighters from across the entire region. The training complex is situated behind the Anzac Avenue Fire Station.

South Western Region has the highest percentage of auxiliary (part time) firefighters working alongside full time staff at 44 Urban fire stations, with 463 auxiliaries and 100 full time firefighters.

On the 17th May 1959 as Station Officer Sidney William Brown from Wynnum watched as a fire appliance went past his property at 2006 Wynnum Road Wynnum, a second one followed, being a Firefighter he sensed some thing was happening and went to investigate.

As he arrived at the Picture theatre he ignored that fact that he was not on shift and assisted where he could, as he and fellow fire fighter Sub Station Officer Herbert George Lees stood below the projection room it collapsed killing both men.

On the 30th May 2004 the new Wynnum Fire Station Opened at the same property Mr Brown watched the fire appliances go by so many years ago, the station moved from Mountjoy Terrace to its new home. This is an extremely proud station with the Line Of Duty Deaths of both Mr Brown and Mr Lees in 1959 and again tragedy struck this station with the death of Firefighter Jeffrey Bruce Penfold during a forklift fire at Lytton docks, the tyre of the vehicle exploded killing the Firefighter on the 24th August 2001.

The new station is dedicated to Mr Brown and the new Scania Appliance dedicated to Mr Penfold.

Apart from the sad but interesting history of the new station and old Firefighting sacrifices the day was upbeat and more in remembrance than sombre sorrow.

Ok here are some pics from Qld ambulance , these pics are from the private photo collection of Merv Bray an ambulance officer from Warwick, the photo collection is from many years of photography of the vehicles at Mervs stations from time to time, I have never seen so many pictures of different ambulances over a period of many years, I hope you all enjoy it as much as I have scanning and posting them, for anyone that is in the area Merv has his own ambulance museum in his back yard that is as good if not better than the one at Wynnum and is open any time as long as he is home, should you be visiting the area contact me for details.
History of the Qld Ambulance

On the night of September 12 1892, a group of Ambulance enthusiasts met in Brisbane to start the CATB, City Ambulance Transport Brigade, the begining of todays Queensland Ambulance Service.

The meeting was held in the home of the founder of CATB Seymour Warrian, and was attended also by Eustace Jack, Geo Windle, W. Tomkins, F.Rudd, A. Beeston, J. Brown, E Slaughter, F.Higginbotham, W. Daniels, W. Hargaves Snr, J. Marlow, A. Clothier and E. J. Smith.

But before the forming of the CATB, the Police with little if any tranning had the resposibility for helping accident victims.If Police found an unconscious person in the street, that person was loaded into a 'jingle' a two wheeled cab and taken to the Police Lock up, if that person didnt regain consciousness by that next morning the Government Medical Officer was called in. In addition the Defence Ambulance Corps (DAC) of the Moreton, Formed in 1884, also played an important role, for instance the Qld Turf Club first invited the DAC to attend horse race meetings and the tradition of having an Ambulance at race meetings continues to this day.

Location:

MORRISON HOTEL
640 Stanley St Woolloongabba
Fiasco's Steakhouse
Liquor Barn Beer Wine Spirits
10 x 30 Wood and Coro Iron Structure

First call in at 1 24pm

902,517,LP1,FCU99,903,402,201,901,Oscar 6-0, 802

Under Control 1 54pm and Stop, out at 2pm

6 men in Ba, various case 3 , monitors.

Suggestions of electrical fault, $500,000 in stock lost , all told suspect $1ml Lost.

Bottle shop only lost , minor smoke damage to hotel itself.

Alert patron first noticed the smoke and raised the alarm.

Taken at the Petrie Fire Museum open Day

Images of ladder platform 2 (Roma St) at Petrie Fire Museum.

TR2 was on hand at the Petrie Fire Museum open day and put on a great display.

Display on extricating patients from crashed motor vehicles by 516, Chermside Station,Petrie Fire Museum Open Day 2004

A visit to the Yeppoon Fire Station, day crewed and night and weekend Auxiliary crewed.

Rockhampton Fire Station Visits, North station is the photographs of spares and out of service vehicles , this station was out on a call when I visited.

Photographed at Gympie Fire Station the birth place and home of this vehicle.

Maryborough Fire Station visit, all vehicles where out but was lucky enough to find one at a kids day out!

Located in Hervey Bay Qld

Photographs from Gympie Fire Station and Fire Museum.

On the 14/05/2004 I visited Childers Fire Station and took these photographs

On the 14/05/2004 I visited Bundaberg Fire Station for a visit and took these photographs.

Whilst in the city on the 26th I spotted some QFRS trucks going into the parklands so I followed, pictured is TR3, TR2 and 902 doing some confined space training, the exercise involved dropping a dummy into a drain labyrinth and the crews then using BA had to extricate the dummy victim from the drains.