SA Firefighter

I believe in recent times, last 12 months or so, the SES has introduced a nationally accredited RCR course. Whether or not it is the same as the current CFS course i have no idea...

Oh so we are inventing new words now. rapider?

Sounds like a super fast moving spider  HEAD FOR THE HILLS!

Quote from: The Assistant on September 18, 2006, 06:16:36 PM

You all need to realise what whinging tools you sound like, and making so many speculations and false statements for really no apparent reason, the BMI rule is a fair rule and it only ever bumps one or two people a year who are not overweight or obese but body builders and the likes. You seem to find the ones that whinge over these matters are the ones that fail the medical. The BMI level has been raised over the years also, and I think you will find that small petite people will be restricted by their doctors (with half a brain) also because carrying 27kg on a small frame can cause serious back problems. slag me if you like but if most of you look deep inside yourselves you know I am right. 

Your the one that needs to get a life mate I passed the BMI and I think its pathetic way of doing things so get your facts straight Mate. so I get to complian as much as i like HEHE. and Toast saftey huh They alow larger fire fighters on the fire ground wich is a great thing but your saying there not capibal to do BA how can thinner people try and save a larger member of the public? youll need heaps of them when if you have larger fire fighters doing BA it helps as you only need two people.....

Thinner people can't drag someone out? I can think of 3 smaller, and 2 quite petite people from our brigade alone who make fantastic BA operators.  Size has very little to do with strength, in fact, one of our smaller (and quite young) blokes can run (and lift) circles around a couple of the older, bigger blokes. You see people built like brick dunnies who can't move a whole lot at all, and smaller, wiry people who could put most others through a wall. I'd trust some of them MORE in a situation that required wearing BA in anger, and would probably get more time to play than if one of the bigger blokes with a dodgy fitness level blew through their cylinders in the 10 minutes or so it takes some of them 

the last actual rescue i attended where SES were required to extricate two patients, one from each car, it took an hour for the first and another hour for the 2nd (rough estimation of times).

My thoughts are - Why didnt they call for back up rescue and why did it take so long to do what seemed to be a faily simple rescue - cut the b pillar out, remove the doors (one car required a roof roll)

but really what is the normal time for this to be carried out? surely not an hour or more

There's a lot of things that can cause an extrication to take a while, so without knowing all the mitigating circumstances surrounding the particular incident, its hard to know how long it should have taken. Such variables as the experience of the crew, the state of equipment, the state of overcrowding, and of course, the state of the casualty all come into effect here.

From what you've said there the time does sound quite outside of the ideal "golden hour"... Then again, what look to be simple rescues can take us a fairly long time too. I know people are going to jump on this instantly, but its a fact of life...

How would swearing make things any better? In my humble opinion, swearing makes a post look tacky, and in a lot of cases removes credibility of any argument or idea being put forward.

Readers here are an articulate bunch, so isn't it relatively easy to find ways around those words anyway?

If they put a CFS station in Crafers that was rescue, and let Stirling keep Hazmat, that should lighten their load quite a bit.

With all due respect Manuel, there's simply no need for a waste of the emergency services levy like throwing another station in Crafers. Lofty group have ample resources, and to be honest as it is 441 could probably be up there faster than you could crew an appliance...

Several brigades do over 300 calls a year, it doesn't call for subdivision of an area unless there are severe issues with the handling of incidents, major thoroughfare or a significant commercial value.

A number of callouts isn't really what determines whether a brigade is "better" than another. Its really whats going on inside that brigade, and their ability to get a crew together to get to a call. We do the same thing as a rural brigade, just a lot more often. Everyone has an entitlement to a safe place of work and training, and the amount of calls shoudn't really affect the basics.

Its all well and good to start discussing what perks SHOULD be. Being something of an Urban brigade, there are certainly things we could use, but the reality of the matter for all the starry eyed individuals out there is that the Emergency Services Levy (1991) is divided up between the CFS, MFS, SES, Surf Lifesaving and a couple of other organizations. There is very little hope that CFS stations will be outfitted with gyms and the like in the near future, unless of course your brigade recieves a large amount of sponsorship.

A gym or extras that are superfluous at a CFS station is just un-neccecary spending of monies in place to keep the service up and running. If you would like to ask people what they'd think of an increase in their Emergency Service Levy, go for it. On the gym thing again.. THe only reason the Mets have the facilities is that they have LONG SHIFTS. We're in before and after a callout, and for training.