by Nev Crocombe At 00:21 Saturday five of us responded to our page, within seven minutes TM41 with a crew of three responded followed about fifteen minutes later by TM51 with a crew of one, leaving yours truly operating Base…
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Month: May 2006
Laheys Lookout Fire
27 May 2006 0012 hours. Two crews turned out to assist one crew from Canungra Rurals with a grass fire at Lahey’s Lookout Rd Mt Tamborine. On arrival Canungra 51 had begun fighting the fire from behind the houses whilst…
Posted in Incident Reports
Training Is Fun
by John Robertson Wednesday evening training is getting more realistic and more fun. On 10th May we had an exercise, game, competition – call it what you will. It was the brain-child of Paul Gardner who devised and set it…
Posted in The Insider
Mother Duck
Opportunity to buy a Fire Engine. Tamborine Mountain Rural Fire Brigade’s TM13 (alias “Mother Duck”), a 1981 Mitsubishi Fuso 7 seater twin cab with a GVM of 7,840 kg, is about to be decommissioned. It develops 127 KW at 2,900…
Posted in Other News
National Park Fire
At 17.15 on the evening of Tuesday 25th April crews were paged to a bush fire at Panorama Point. The call was activated by our Auxiliary colleagues already at the fire scene. The fire, as often at the Point, was…
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