Latest / 360 with Katie Woolf / Chief Fire Officer Mark Spain on the simple steps to safely letting off fireworks this Territory Day

Transcript

Chief Fire Officer Mark Spain on the simple steps to safely letting off fireworks this Territory Day · 360 with Katie Woolf

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Joining me in the studio right now is the Chief
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: Fire Officer, Mark spain Good morning to you.
• 0:05
  Speaker 2: Good morning coatie Spainy.
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: I was meant to be catching up with Joshua Fisher,
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: but then I saw you outside the studio and thought, oh,
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: well there we go. We've got Spainy instead.
• 0:14
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, he's got errands to do all the good stuff.
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: Well, mate, I know that in preparation for Territory Day tomorrow,
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: the Northern Territory Police, Fire and Emergency Services are obviously
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: getting out and making sure that Territorians do know what
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: they need to do to prepare to enjoy Territory Days
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: safely and responsibly. Now, what is the message really for
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: Territorians ahead of Territory Day tomorrow around fireworks.
• 0:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, first and foremost, PFAS Media have worked with their
• 0:43
  Speaker 3: volunteer captains. Now I've put a couple of little snippets
• 0:45
  Speaker 3: up on their Facebook page, so if they want to
• 0:48
  Speaker 3: have a look of those.
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: The captains have done some great work of what to do.
• 0:52
  Speaker 3: But realistically what we want to do is if you
• 0:54
  Speaker 3: really follow the manufacturer's recommendations of how to set those
• 0:57
  Speaker 3: fireworks off, be prepared, have a cleared area, have some
• 1:00
  Speaker 3: sort of extinguishing agents, like a bucket of water or
• 1:03
  Speaker 3: a hose close by. And also what I'd also like
• 1:07
  Speaker 3: to do add is that you also have some sort
• 1:09
  Speaker 3: of first aid kit there in the unlikely event that
• 1:12
  Speaker 3: someone gets injured or burnt from one of those fireworks.
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: Now, what do you have to do if somebody does
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: get you know, suffer from an injury or gets you know,
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: I guess gets burned. What do people need to do
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: in the first instance, Yeah, I.
• 1:24
  Speaker 2: Just use the three C rule, Katie is cool.
• 1:28
  Speaker 3: Cover cover with an appropriate rapper to stop any infection
• 1:33
  Speaker 3: getting into the burn like lad rap is a very good,
• 1:35
  Speaker 3: good opportunity, and then call Core for assistance asap, and
• 1:39
  Speaker 3: then try and get that burn sort to.
• 1:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because it's one of those hard ones.
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: Generally, everybody, well, I know, I try to let fireworks
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: off pretty safely on a bit of a nana when
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: it comes to safety around things like fireworks, But then
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: occasionally get a bit of a rogue one and you
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: think to yourself, oh, my goodness, if that ends up
• 1:59
  Speaker 1: hitting one of the kids or hitting somebody, it could
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: be quite dangerous.
• 2:02
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 2:03
  Speaker 3: I think every year after fireworks you talked to a
• 2:06
  Speaker 3: number of people and especially the medicals either the house.
• 2:08
  Speaker 2: How many injuries as a result of fireworks.
• 2:10
  Speaker 3: You know, you've got a combination of forty fireworks, you've
• 2:13
  Speaker 3: got inappropriate use of fireworks. Alcohol may be involved in
• 2:16
  Speaker 3: certain areas causing incidents. So we just really asked people
• 2:20
  Speaker 3: to be mindful of other people of where they're going
• 2:23
  Speaker 3: to let them off, and to report a triple zero
• 2:26
  Speaker 3: in the event something happens.
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: Now, how are we looking when it comes to the conditions,
• 2:30
  Speaker 1: because obviously last year our Territory Day was held much
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: sort of later in the year and the wind was
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: a real concern. There was an awful lot of fires.
• 2:38
  Speaker 1: I remember speaking to Josh Fisher the following day and
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: there was such a huge number of fires. What are
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: we expecting this year when it comes to those conditions.
• 2:46
  Speaker 3: Were last year we had about four hundred and fifty
• 2:48
  Speaker 3: odd fire reported across the Northern Territory. This year, How
• 2:53
  Speaker 3: glorious is this weather? That's cloud it's there could be
• 2:56
  Speaker 3: some rain slight chance of rome. We had rain last night,
• 3:00
  Speaker 3: be gusty winds coming through. So just be once again
• 3:03
  Speaker 3: careful how you use your fireworks. But we're expecting not
• 3:06
  Speaker 3: as horrendous conditions as we expected last year, so late
• 3:10
  Speaker 3: in the season.
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: That is good to hear it now. In terms of
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: the number of like how many how many people do
• 3:15
  Speaker 1: you have to sort of have on I guess when
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: it comes to something like this.
• 3:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, generally Katie will double our career cruise to enhance cruise,
• 3:24
  Speaker 3: so that allows the rostered shift on to manage the
• 3:27
  Speaker 3: main major fire appliances to deal with structural fires, road
• 3:31
  Speaker 3: crash or any other core business that they do, and
• 3:33
  Speaker 3: the enhanced crews will go out in the grass fire
• 3:36
  Speaker 3: units and respond to all.
• 3:37
  Speaker 2: The local fires that pop up that are reported. Through
• 3:40
  Speaker 2: triple zero.
• 3:41
  Speaker 3: This year, we're struggling to fill the enhanced crew of such. However,
• 3:45
  Speaker 3: the volunteers are really stepped up, as they do every year.
• 3:48
  Speaker 3: They usually take the day off the next day because
• 3:50
  Speaker 3: they know it's going to be a long one, but
• 3:51
  Speaker 3: we also know it's going to be a Friday night,
• 3:53
  Speaker 3: so it's not we have to get the kids early
• 3:55
  Speaker 3: into bed. They were expecting a very late night early
• 3:59
  Speaker 3: our morning.
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: For all the fire actions, yeah, no doubt about it.
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: Where are some of there are there some locations where
• 4:05
  Speaker 1: you just absolutely cannot let fireworks off.
• 4:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're in the council areas will let you know
• 4:10
  Speaker 3: where they can't be set off, So if you've probably
• 4:13
  Speaker 3: got onto their website, they'll have a clear area where
• 4:16
  Speaker 3: you can and cannot let it off. But the other
• 4:18
  Speaker 3: things too, is when you go down to the ables,
• 4:21
  Speaker 3: just don't put your used don't discard your used fireworks
• 4:24
  Speaker 3: into bins.
• 4:25
  Speaker 2: Wait till they cool down, and then once they're cool.
• 4:29
  Speaker 3: Just put them in, dispose of them correctly for the
• 4:32
  Speaker 3: council workers the next day. And also it avoids those
• 4:35
  Speaker 3: bin fires.
• 4:36
  Speaker 2: How busy does it get for you guys?
• 4:37
  Speaker 1: It must get pretty crazy on territory day, does it.
• 4:40
  Speaker 3: Well, if you're talking to my Jessic operators, the comms operators,
• 4:44
  Speaker 3: they have no hair left by the end of the night.
• 4:47
  Speaker 3: They are sensational the way they coordinate. We'll have two
• 4:50
  Speaker 3: officers in there with the Joint Control Center and we'll
• 4:55
  Speaker 3: take out priorities. Because we're running his cruise bit smaller
• 5:00
  Speaker 3: than normal, we will prioritize those calls.
• 5:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I'll tell you what. Good luck to all
• 5:06
  Speaker 1: the fireries and all of the volunteers of course for
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: tomorrow night, and please everybody just be as safe as
• 5:13
  Speaker 1: possible so that you know, we don't end up with fires.
• 5:16
  Speaker 3: Everywhere, absolutely catally and really a really good location is
• 5:19
  Speaker 3: down at Lake Alexander to observe across the harbor.
• 5:23
  Speaker 2: You'll see Fanny Bay go off.
• 5:24
  Speaker 3: You'll see like Alexander, large groups gather there and you'll
• 5:27
  Speaker 3: be able to see their fireworks go off as well.
• 5:29
  Speaker 3: So if you knew to town and you need advantage,
• 5:31
  Speaker 3: point like Alexander could.
• 5:32
  Speaker 2: Be the spot.
• 5:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well we're going to catch up with in t
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: major events as well in around twenty minutes time and
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: we'll find out a bit more about the Territory Day
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: celebrations that they've got lined up. Mark Spain, chief Fire
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: Officer for the Northern Territory. Always good to catch up
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: with you. Thank you.
• 5:45
  Speaker 2: Likewise, Katie