This is a question to those who don't think we should be taking photos at an incident:
Have you seen the BFF-1 training manual, BA training manual, or suppress wildfire training manual, and a few other recent publications?
Have you seen the photos in those manuals?
The bulk of the photos have been taken by CFS photographers at a wide range of incidents, attended by CFS.
Have you seen the Volunteer Magazine? Do you like the photos in it? The bulk of those photos were also taken by CFS members at incidents.
Without those people taking photos, we could end up with a Volunteer Magazine with only a handful of photos, and Training manuals with a handful of staged photos of training centre staff (no offence to the staff, or the training centre).
So, the huge number of photos taken by CFS members at incidents (and other activities) has resulted in huge library of photos, which have been used for training purposes, as well as for promoting the work of volunteers - not the corporate line that the Government insists that Government agencies adopt.
To attract new volunteers to the service, and to educate the public, and other services about what CFS volunteers actually do, CFS as a whole needs to promote itself. What better way to promote itself than show *** suitable *** good quality, exciting photos.....
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