[SEL] Does the New Year crankup still happen? ... and its bloody HOT here!

[brent]

Paul well done putting the potential fire out that could have been life
threatning just as well you were there..Cant reason the logic behind
stupidity.Does that mean you will be promoted to chief fire officier could
be a good reason to buy a vintage fire truck ? brentnz

---- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Pavlinovich" <pjp at steamengine.com.au>
To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 5:07 AM
Subject: Re: [SEL] Does the New Year crankup still happen? ... and its
bloody HOT here!


> Happy New Year everyone. It was a good thing that we ran a fire patrol
> today. As expected the diesel caused no fires at all, but an arsonist
> had set the 50' high trestle bridge alight with fireworks (by pointing
> them down into the ballast next to sleepers). I was able to put out the
> fires by digging out the ballast then using the fire pump on the
> trolley. I put a lot of water into it before it was extinguished fully.
>
> Police attended and to my amazement actually caught a bloke who was
> hiding in the bushes lineside watching.
>
> At least our CEO will remember my name now! I get the dubious honour of
> submitting the first Incident/Defect Report for 2008.
>
> Regards
> Paul
>
> Paul Pavlinovich wrote:
> > I'll be on Fire Patrol duty at Puffing Billy Railway driving behind a
> > special New Year's train tonight so I won't be cranking up any of my own
> > engines but I will be cranking up one of our Fire Patrol trolleys - NK2.
> >
> >
>
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