SA Firefighter

I agree medevac there is no way at all you can do anything to help ppl b prepared for what they may c when responding to an MVA, even if you have looked at pics its still nothing until you get to the job and c all the ppl around ambos, cops ect.

As for all this talk about making ppl doing test i think that is just stupid, its a volunteer service so you dont have to go to an MVA if you dont want to, there is no point making volunteers do a test to c if they are good enough for the CFS. As for working alongside an axe murderer it prob wouldnt happen because we do have police checks which would prob come back saying something like that so you wouldnt let them into your brigade.

Im with the same brigade as Cybercitizen and its not just the fact that no-one is trained, CFS also have asked us to do a risk assesment on it, but training is also a big part of it.

24P did your brigade do a risk assesment? and what training if any have you done so you can use it?

Yeah at my brigade most B.A. operators have 2 helmets. But some of the guys refuse to wear the bushfire helmet as it is just not very good! I cant think of what type it is, it is the first one that came out and the visor is so flimsy!!

we did it a few weeks ago, and we also are starting to try and incorporate it into our training sessions so it keeps us all aware of what to do

I dont have anything that I could contribute but I think that a Fire Museum here would be a great idea.
I would support it for sure

Yes I will have to agree with the BA sets, I think with the lift down arms that can be moved to almost any height they are an excellent idea.
The lockers are good, i like the idea of roller door style similar to MFS appliances. As for all the other storage spots they arent bad.

I really dont think that the car should be moved with a fatality in it, if you know you have to wait arounf for hours then get released from the scene then get SAPOL to call you back when Major Crash have finished, and do it on the scene. I just think that it is better than making a tow truck driver have to see things that he may not want to see.

Just a quick comment about people not going up a ladder on BFF1 course. CFS is a volunteer service and if someone doesnt feel confident enough to go up a ladder then that is their choice and I dont think they should fail until they have climbed a ladder.
If they didnt do it then they should tell there captain or officer so they know not to ask them to go up a ladder at a job.
And they can work on it at a brigade level where they may feel more confident

OK then fair enough, I will agree that when I was a cadet things used to be so much easier because there wasnt any of these OHS things in place, were as now if you want to do something you have to do a risk assesment and we all know that they suck

I think that the thing about having two other people of the same sex is stupid, even though it might be a policy that CFS has made sometimes its just impossible to have that kind of thing happen in some brigades.
Some brigades only have a couple of females and they dont always show up for a job, so therefore if you put this thing into place then the person wouldnt be able to ride the truck to jobs very often and more than likely they will get bored quickly and you will lose memebers.
My brigade is very active with cadets and as I am a supervisor and was a cadet at one stage, I know that all of the officers that take a job are very careful with taking a young cadet who has just come up but I dont think any of them even know about this same sex thing as I have never heard about it before and I have been a supervisor for about 5yrs

I think something like that would be good but a mock accident would take too long. But really something with flames as that would get the attention of all the audience.
The one that they did a couple of years ago with the five man attacks was good maybe something like that.

Hey,

Just been reading about the wallet. I think it would be a good idea, I would buy one.

As for people mis-using it I really dont think that any decent CFS member would go around mis-using something like that.