Adelaide Forecast Current Fire Bans	Welcome to the Echunga Country Fire Service Web Site. Echunga CFS was originally founded in 1928 by a group of Echunga locals. We are located in Adelaide Hills, South Australia. Echunga CFS responds to many types of emergencies including House Fires, Factory and Industrial Fires, Road Accident Rescues, Wildfires, Flood and Storm Damage, Search and Rescue and animal rescues, We are a lot more diverse than just putting out fires!! We also provide public fire education to local community and school groups, awareness programs and displays at public relations events such as the Royal Adelaide Show. We hope you stay a while on the new web site, and if you have any suggestions for future content, please send us an email. Member Login
		A Helping Hand Echunga CFS prides itself on having one of the few fully functioning Operational Support Teams, If you would like more info on this, or would like to help out please send your queries to Operational Support
New Appliance We have just received a brand new Appliance, this vehicle is a superior upgrade to our out-dated Hino single cab, The new vehicle is based on a Hino Pro-Ranger 8Z 4x4 Crew Cab which is powered by a 24v Intercooled turbo diesel 6 Cyl backed with a auto transmission. It has already been called the safest fire appliance in the world & comes with a long list of specialist features. More info to follow… Bulk Water Storage Those that live in the Hills know how important it is to have your own water supply when you don’t have mains water, We have just upgraded our water storage for refilling our appliances with the installation of a 31,700L (7000G) Poly tank purchased from “Polymaster Tanks” with the funding coming kindly from SGIC Insurance Regular Newsletters If you wish to be kept up to date on what’s happening in our brigade please follow the link below to download our Monthly Newsletter, in the future we hope to run a subscription service for this feature. Many thanks go to Don for creating this each month Monthly Newsletter New Website Welcome to www.echungacfs.org.au , this site has just been hosted on our own domain hopefully this will make things a lot easier for everyone – Work is also continuing on the links at the top of the page although it is rather slow progress, so please be patient. Maintenance Program During the recent Kuipto Forrest fire it was noted by several people that our CFS station did not have the ability to sound the warning siren due a lack of power , alternatives are being investigated at the moment to fix this, we are also looking at increasing our bulk water storage and efficient means to transfer this water --------------------------------------- Member Login We have just updated the website slightly to include a “Member Login” in this area you will find archived brigade meeting minutes with more to come….. If you want access to this area please email me for the login info.	Last Website Update 17/03/2008
	Current Incidents / Warnings Rather than me trying to post current Incidents throughout the day I thought it was a better idea to make a link to the location where I get all the info from Please Refer to the link Below www.cfs.org.au/media We hold training sessions every Monday night from 8 Pm, if you are interested in joining please feel free to drop in during the evening and we will be pleased to show you around - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Previous Incidents Total Incidents 2006-2007 = 94 Total Hours volunteered 2006-2007 = 1474 hrs (Please note these are official hours and there is A LOT more hours put in behind the scenes)	Echunga’s New Appliance “Hino Pro-Range 8z” 34 – Delivered July 2007 New “Polymaster” tank is stage 1 of a 2 stage plan to increase Appliance filling times, this is a 500% increase over existing storage capacity
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