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19:06:36 20-01-11 MU181 FROM 171 CREW PLSE CHECK FOR STIFF THEY MAY HAVE LEFT BEHIND GUYS SAAS Murray Bridge


Things must be bad when you start leaving the stiffs behind for another crew!!

Pip

Nearest police in my time was Clarendon but that has long since closed. Now it would be Darlington, Mt Barker or McLaren Vale? Somebody that way may correct me and RSPCA a long way away when an animal is suffering. Lets face it, when you are the only emergency service in town you get everything.

Aint no police at Darlington anymore..they went along time ago!! 

Pip

How many different scenarios can you get for a burn over drill...?

I would have thought just one..... fire's coming, appliance can't escape before fire arrives, take cover, do the appropriate things on the appliance / radio / with pumps / hoses etc, once 'passed' check on crews, appliance & surrounds.  Can't see much else to it.

And as Alex says, chuck a burn over drill in the middle of something else you are doing..... my brigade does that a number of times over spring / summer training...  it's good practice, and doesn't take long!  Nothing required from HQ to get it done.....

Pip

Or a near miss a few days ago....ambo turning left at an intersection....into the path of a BRT going lights & sirens to the same job.......!

Pip

Hamley Bridge

Indeed.  As you say they do often get paged but haven't seen any specific job details via pager that I can recall, an example page is something like "Cat B - Heli + blood - GRN when mobile".

Every so often, details are paged - including patient name, sometimes details of their illness / injury, obs etc......although I haven't seen it on the pager sites available to the public....

Pip

Quote from: Pipster on November 25, 2010, 07:43:38 PM

Agree with the bulk of that fire000...

But I reckon the section in relation to speed past emergency vehicles comes under the RTA, Division 9, Section 83, not under the ARR....

Pip

Thanks for correcting me Pip, after all with your work you're in a better position to know traffic rules/regs than me.


cheers

It's all on line at www.legislation.sa.gov.au !

And yes Mister  Teddy, we are waaayyyy off topic - but that's half the fun!! 

Pip

My brigade spends a fair bit of time on this type of training.

I try to get different people to do equipment checks each training night, checking that the equipment is where it should be (checked against our stowage list) and that it is in working order.

It is a good way for new members to learn where things are.

During some training sessions, we do what I call "show & tell".

Each person at training is given a specific piece of equipment to locate on the appliance, bring it back to the group, tell the group what it is used for, and where it was found on the appliance.   

I allocate what piece of equipment each person has to get - and I generally give them things that they may not be familiar with - eg I get a non-chainsaw qualified person to find the chainsaw safety gear.

The other part of this is that members are allowed to ask other members where the equipment is, and what it is used for - since we will normally be working as a team.

The whole exercise is fairly short and simple, and is not aimed at making people feel uncomfortable - and can be a bit of fun!

Pip

Quote from: Bill Corcoran on November 22, 2010, 05:07:30 AM

The 25kms past emergency applainces has not come in yet and is along way off coming in, The driver fatigue laws(log books) is still a ongoing issue as CFS is not yet exempt as the wrong person signed off on that paperwork. There is documentation floating around has to how that 1.8 million is to be spent and most of that would go on wages to employ more training staff so that courses can go ahead. I am sure your group officer can supply you with a copy of the paperwork

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Last i heard was that DTEI (Dept. Transport Energy and Infrastructure) were against the change. Even if they were for it, wouldn't it involve a change to an Act of parliament, thus requiring going through state parliament. I agree it's stupid the 40km/hr wasn't 25km/hr to start with, but don't think the change will be something as simple as getting 'signed off', it's a bit more involved than that.

Correct Fire000 - the 40 km/hr is part of the Road Traffic Act (as opposed to the regulations) - which means to change it, it actually has to go through Parliament.    If both the Government & the Opposition agree, it is a very simple & quick process....if one or the other doesn't agree, then the change is more difficult...


Pip

My brigade has 9 female firefighters..... plus two ops support.....

Probably because the pager was allocated to one callsign, and on the scanning page, tagged with that callsign.

Then the pager was allocated to another callsign, and whoever's scanning page you are looking at hasn't changed it yet....

Pip

Listening into the comms of the initial arriving CFS crew - good job done by James as OIC....

Pip

The ECP's moved out of the Parkside base...they now have a place at Norwood...

Pip