20 December 2013

Mawson childcare incident

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ACT Fire & Rescue are on scene the Jenny Wren Childcare Centre, 18 Enderby Street, Mawson.

Firefighters were called to the centre following a power failure.

Due to the heat, 92 children have remained inside the building with crews monitoring their safety.

ACTEW is working to restore power.

ACT Fire & Rescue has two units on scene and a commander.

The Emergency Triple Zero Call (000) was made at 11:32.

12:13 PM

[Courtesy ESA]

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Ah this thread was worth it for #19, 20 and 28….brilliant. I love a good “back in my day” and those were gold medal! Seriously can’t top them *dips hat

gentoopenguin8:32 am 23 Dec 13

As my dad used to say when I whinged for aircon as a kid: “You want air conditioning? Open the window”

schmeah said :

Hope parents get some kind of refund for the inconvenience. Paying $100 or so bucks so that Susie and friends have to sweat it out. Rort.

You’ve never had children there recently have you….

AsparagusSyndrome said :

RandomPoster said :

So what would have happened on a hot day before there was air conditioning?

Back in my day, we didn’t even have electricity, and very few kindergartens could afford a dependable punkawallah. So, when it was really hot, kids would just burst into flames and someone would wander along to pat them down with a wet hessian sack and tell them to stop crying and go back outside and play some more. None of this ‘firemen on standby’ nonsense we have now.

Hessian sack? We would have killed for a hessian sack, all we got when it was hot was a bamboo cane to beat ourselves with, followed by a roll in the gravel if we were lucky.

troll-sniffer said :

Went past a child care centre somewhere in the inner north today, and bless my soul if the littl’uns didn’t have a garden sprinkler on under the awning and were busy spraying each other,. Aaaah the rarity of lateral thinking will be society’s eventual undoing.

Noted the same at the preschool next to Theodore Primary. You could tell the kids hated every minute of by their screams and squeals of delight.

Seriously though – these morons called the firies instead of a sparkie, and locked the kids indoors ??? Are you sure these people should be allowed to supervise children?

I hope that counselling was provided for each and every child, so the trauma of this horrid experience doesn’t haunt them for the rest of their lives.

At the primary school I went to we would have been allowed to take our ties off! Admittedly not child care, but extend the argument.

Deref said :

maxblues said :

Back in my day, children would have been down in a coal mine earning their keep.

Within 2 years they will be again. And it’ll be character-forming.

Clive Palmer can’t wait until his newly born daughter can be kept busy in a mine (I believe PUP had a coal mine/child care policy). Conversely Gina Rinehart is not keen for her kiddies to be involved in the mines at all.

OMG!!!!
I don’t have air conditioning at home and I have children.
I didn’t realise we were in such danger.

Should I call 000 and get the Fire And Rescue Team around to monitor my childrens safety?

Although, when you think about it, if you’re getting someone around to look after the health and safety of the kiddies, wouldn’t it make more sense to have paramedics? Not sure why they got the firies unless they were concerned the kids were going to Spontaneously combust.

The workers are there for the kids entertainment
The fire-fighters are there for the workers entertainment

maxblues said :

Back in my day, children would have been down in a coal mine earning their keep.

Within 2 years they will be again. And it’ll be character-forming.

AsparagusSyndrome said :

RandomPoster said :

So what would have happened on a hot day before there was air conditioning?

Back in my day, we didn’t even have electricity, and very few kindergartens could afford a dependable punkawallah. So, when it was really hot, kids would just burst into flames and someone would wander along to pat them down with a wet hessian sack and tell them to stop crying and go back outside and play some more. None of this ‘firemen on standby’ nonsense we have now.

Back in my day, children would have been down in a coal mine earning their keep. Why are some parents opposing coal mines?

AsparagusSyndrome1:45 am 21 Dec 13

RandomPoster said :

So what would have happened on a hot day before there was air conditioning?

Back in my day, we didn’t even have electricity, and very few kindergartens could afford a dependable punkawallah. So, when it was really hot, kids would just burst into flames and someone would wander along to pat them down with a wet hessian sack and tell them to stop crying and go back outside and play some more. None of this ‘firemen on standby’ nonsense we have now.

I’m hoping the firemen being called is just an automatic thing that the building does when the power goes out?

If you lose power you’re supposed to call the power company or your electrician depending on the location of the fault. Firemen can’t help!

astrojax said :

92 children remained indoors. 11 trouble makers were made to stand outside…

That made me think of Lawrence of Arabia with the late Peter O’Toole.

I don’t think that is strictly relevant.

bigfeet said :

Are the fire crews there to turn their hoses on the kids if they get too hot?

Presumably, though why 92 kids would take 2 pumpers for the task is a mystery. For that matter why not send in a CAFS unit instead to make some fun bubbles.

RandomPoster said :

So what would have happened on a hot day before there was air conditioning?

The child care centres back then were orphanages and well I’m sure you know about their reputations right? Otherwise the family would have had a nanny. And prior to A/C being common whirly birds (fans) were used.

Hope parents get some kind of refund for the inconvenience. Paying $100 or so bucks so that Susie and friends have to sweat it out. Rort.

92 children remained indoors. 11 trouble makers were made to stand outside…

Pork Hunt said :

RandomPoster said :

So what would have happened on a hot day before there was air conditioning?

They would have been given a tsp of cement …

ROTFLMAO. Seriously.

WIN

troll-sniffer4:54 pm 20 Dec 13

Went past a child care centre somewhere in the inner north today, and bless my soul if the littl’uns didn’t have a garden sprinkler on under the awning and were busy spraying each other,. Aaaah the rarity of lateral thinking will be society’s eventual undoing.

wildturkeycanoe4:42 pm 20 Dec 13

Open up the hoses and wash all the kiddie germs out of the center, then let it dry over the Christmas break. Imagine the wild water slide they could improvise with some tarps and high pressure water. Best way to spend the last day of school!

Are the fire crews there to turn their hoses on the kids if they get too hot?

“evacuation”?

“92 children have remained inside the building with crews monitoring their safety”…..

RandomPoster said :

So what would have happened on a hot day before there was air conditioning?

We wouldn’t be paying $92 a day and less likely to sue if little Timmy’s cheeks got red.

RandomPoster said :

So what would have happened on a hot day before there was air conditioning?

Fans? Which also require electricity to operate. I don’t think the problem here is that the air con has gone out – more that any form of cooling is unavailable (and redesigning the building to use modern passive cooling methods isn’t entirely practicable).

RandomPoster said :

So what would have happened on a hot day before there was air conditioning?

There weren’t childcare centers back then, Dad worked, Mum looked after the kids.

RandomPoster said :

So what would have happened on a hot day before there was air conditioning?

They would have been given a tsp of cement …

RandomPoster said :

So what would have happened on a hot day before there was air conditioning?

Buildings would be designed for natural ventilation.

RandomPoster1:05 pm 20 Dec 13

So what would have happened on a hot day before there was air conditioning?

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