SA Firefighter

Agree - all Retained are trained eventually in these disciplines (although they are in-service courses only and are not nationally accredited courses ie. no PUA) - all nine or ten of them. No all CFS members are not trained in all disciplines because there are simply more of us. Each brigade has an SFEC allocation and if that is not suitable for your brigades needs then argue the case but not on emotion but based upon real facts. I know of 2 brigades that have done this and received changes to their SFEC to the point where there numbers are equal to the local retained brigade for CABA and exceed their numbers for RCR and HAZMAT. It can be done. Why it was not done in the case of Mt Barker I am not sure and we need to find out why.

MFS are changing to nationally recognised courses for BA/RCR. At the end of the day the public who call 000 don't care who comes or who provided the training. As long as someone comes who can cut them out of a car or put out the fire out as long as they are competent does it matter how their training was provided.

Some brigades have pushed for more course training spots but nothing happens as the funds just are not there. Not blaming the CFS but I guess their hands are tied,

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WRGCC-MILL-: AGM WATTLE RANGE OPS BRIGADE 6TH AUGUST 2014 ELECTION YEAR ALL MEMBERS REQUIRED TO ATTEND 7PM START 17/07/2014 5:55:50 PM - CFS Wattle Range Group Officers Info

not appropriate to tell people that they must attend, people have work and other commitments. See this happen far too often, some better wording would be good. Like attend if possible, apologies to mr XYZ thanks.

Everyone is entitled to an opinion on this but I see a different scenario developing.

Some bigger towns/brigades becoming MFS retained with possible day crewing eventually, eg Mt Barker, Nuriootpa etc. No such thing as CFS paid firefighters, CFS have already stated they are not overly interested in supporting urban risks nor have the funds to do it. So making these places MFS they get the better equipment and everyone gets trained in BA/hazmat/RCR which cant be done now.

SES will be limited to a few key locations and the fire services will do the rest of the areas. Places like Kapunda that have CFS/MFS and SES will have one service to do the lot creating less demand for volunteers. Ideally no one would lose paid positions.

Whilst CFA have volunteers and paid staff in some of the stations together I believe it would not work here too much of a change.