Re: NEWCASTLE ACCIDENT

[Michael Van Baast <vanbaast@acay.com.au>]

> believe, from radio reports, that inadequate communication procedures were
> partly responsible for the deaths of the five fire-fighters near Ballarat
> recently.

this is incorrect, turnabouts in fires is an often occurance, it just
happens that in this situation it turned very quickly and trapped 3
trucks in roughly the same area, the truck in which the 5 men died
simply ran out of water and could not keep the truck wet (for those who
do not know, rural fire trucks carry a sprinkler system to keep the
truck and about 5meters around them wet so fire cannot damage the truck)
the other units survived because of this system , there was simply no
time to get them out.
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