DEC Annual Aerial Burning Program

Gidday

I have been lucky to spend time out in the deserts with some people from Kalgoorlie DEC. They are a great bunch who have a genuine love for the country and work hard under often difficult circumstances (budget, politics, you name it) to keep it so the rest of us can enjoy it.


Cheers

Rocco

Maybe they will put a name to their "Visitor" membership when you do the same ;)

? DEC is expanded in the actual post to Dept of Environment and Conservation. Should be clear enough for most.

There is a phone number at the bottom of the post to ring if you need further info. Using a single person e.g. "Phil" as a contact would be fine - if there was any chance he/she was available for that purpose 24/7, 365 days of the year - doubt it.

DEC have their own website (which can be found in under 1 second using google) so IMHO not much need for info additional to that given in this instance.

Cheers
Greg

I agree with Kev and The Explorer

Surely a phone number is enough Flywest, you're a serial whinger. You hide behind your Business Name and dont pay Business rates. I am just amazed you managed to keep your reply below 50000000000000 words

Struth whats our world commin too?.

1. I said it was nice to see DEC posting

2. I said it would be nice to be able to contact our poster by first name - any public Servant is allowed to use their first name in communications with the public if they don't want to be "identified" by exposing their surname, (and fair enough too).

3. My names immediately available thru a google search of Flywest, you'll find my web page with First name Shann and Surname Low - it is no secret, and never has been.
Conversely by searching DEC - I'll never deduce our posters first name in return.

4. I haven't been able to find any ability to add any more detail to my "visitors" mebership than whats already there - maybe it is possible for full (paid up) members but not visitors?. Anyone who can't discern mine from my business name is perhaps somewhat computer illiterate? I've NEVER sought to hide from anything I post to the internet, unlike some others maybe.

5. While I'm at it, should anyone choose to google search my business name, and hence find my first and surnames - you will also find a link to my forums where your ALL welcome to sign up for FREE, and post whatever you like. Thats a forum I provide and web page etc at MY cost for others to do, just as I do here for free.

Quid pro quo and all that.

6. My request for a posters first name was two fold.

A) As a past DEC/CALM employee, two good friends left Nannup and transfered to Kalgooorlie, and I was keen to see if they were still there perhaps, it would be nise to know whom I'm communicating with, and if it were either of them.

B) Regardless, it was my intention to write to the Kalgoorlie DEC / CALM manager and praise the releveant employee's actions for the initiative taken to keep people informed thru this forum medium. Not knowing which employee is the poster - that action is not possible.

Re the comments:-

Serial whinger?

Long Posts?

I'll remember that, next time I'm tempted to devote a half hour or so to answering someone elses question at length, and in detail....and when replying to their emails etc asking my guidance for such things as the recent forum Easter Nannup trip away, and the camping options available etc shall I?

I would suggest that people not ascribe imagined agenda's of their own, to my posts, and keep their negative opinions to themselves please.

Cheers.

"Regardless, it was my intention to write to the Kalgoorlie DEC / CALM manager and praise the releveant employee's actions for the initiative taken to keep people informed thru this forum medium. Not knowing which employee is the poster - that action is not possible. "

Yes it is - address it to the Regional Manager

PO Box 10173 KALGOORLIE 6433

It would be better if the boss knows - the person/persons who made the post already know it was a good idea.

Cheers
Greg

DEC, you are doing a good thing here, during our time in WA a while ago, the management of CALM of your resources there was a standout memory of how to do a good job. DEC I understand is CALM by another name.

My regards

Bonz

So true Dunc

We had a grass cum bushfire at the popular King Edward River camp site. Campers made a campfire to cook lunch in the long grass - clearing no barrier at all. It was a warm day with a fairly strong wind. Not a day i would light any fire anywhere. They just had no idea. A few anxious moments and a lot of hot hard work by the campers to get it under control and eventually extinguished. Overseas visitors were doubly panicking, because their camper van had broken down and couldn't be moved.

We are fortunate in WA that we have hazard reduction burns so we have never had fores of the magnitude of those in Victoria over the years.

Motherhen

Hi Dunc and Motherhen,

I can only fully agree with you.

Together with my best friend Harry I am not only travelling the beautiful Australian outback, but have also done some bush fire fighting in Oz. We are volunteer firies here in Germany and did a wildland fire fighting training before in the United States. We stayed twice with FESA in Perth for bush fire fighting traineeships in the surrounding areas of Perth.

I just could not believe it how many fires were set deliberately by some bloody a..holes. One fire was set at bush nearby a school. The aim of the arsonist must have been to have some extra holidays - we could just stop the blaze before it reached the first school building.

But we also watched lots of fires along the roads during summer time while travelling with the 4WD. When travelling the Nullarbor late in December last year we came about a starting fire (probably caused by a carelessly thrown cigarette) and managed to keep it under control by using our only shovel (first I was incident commander and Harry was shoveling, then he was IC and I shoveled ;-) ). Lucky enough a guy from the local brigade travelled along the road with this UTE and rushed to the shed for the fire truck. Was bloody windy, I think we would not have made it if the fire truck had not arrived 20 minutes later.

On another occassion we watched some criminal people setting the bush alight close to Devils Marbles. Fires were already burning in a distance of two or three kilometres from the camp ground and we had told people to stay clear of the bush with their campers. When leaving the camp ground we witnessed these criminals setting the bush alight just some 200 metres from the camp ground. We managed to put the fire out, again using our only shovel.

This time (CSR late in May) we will enter Bunnings before starting and buy a nice rakehoe to be a little bit better prepared for our next bit of bush fire fighting along the road. ;-)

We try to warn other tourists in our German Australia forums to be very cautious with any open fire and to obey any fire ban, and I think that many tourists are more aware of the danger now, after the disastrous fires in Victoria.

Cheers from bloody boring Dortmund/Germany,

Juergen

German by Birth, but Aussie by Heart!

Hi Juergen

As farmers and having seen the destruction caused by many fires, we are so paranoid that we won't even light a campfire at any time of year. I always use gas for cooking.

Enjoy Oz when you get back here. You have probably seen more of the outback than i have.

Motherhen

Tony

forgive me for telling you this, BUT if you want to direct your comments to 'Motherhen' you need to hit the ""FollowUp"" button.

Regards

Richard