501C

[dmint3]

last night on fire-com Brisbane i herd fleet 886 is now 501C and available for turn out. anyone know anything about it .
has station 1 got a third pump now.

[bustercc]

no third pump. Would be manned for special reason as was 528C last week.

[coghilla]

886 is a spare for Brisbane region. Maybe the recsue gear was non functional so the pump callsign was changed from rescue pumper (A/B) to pumper (C/D)

[bustercc]

No, if rescue gear is non functional the appliance is off the run. The call sign wont get changed. Charlie is simply used because alpha and bravo are taken.

[coghilla]

then could be that there were enough staff on shift to man the extra pump. Ie no one on holidays or other leave.

[nbus qld]

Could of it been 527A has they were there last night for a bit.

[dmint3]

they were changing pumps, they took the spare back fleet 933 at Kemp place they have been using it for about a week.

[bustercc]

Coghilla was right. Kemp place were running spares and there were no sickies in all of Brisbane for the shift so they made up a crew and manned Charlie. They do the same at 2 Stn but normally man Whisky or Yankee. They had no jobs but had a nice night sleep. They had the same spares rostered there the following night but had sickies to fill in at out-stations.