SA Firefighter

Not saying i would do it, (how gooberish would that look!!)but im guessing the logic behind it is that for grass/scrub fires etc. keep torso cool(ish) but still protected, and legs (where most of the dangers are) protected most.

It is interesting to note that within my group, a new directive has come out (Last Night) that PBI is only to be worn at training by the Duty Crew, unless it is CABA training.

created new thread http://www.safirefighter.com/boards/index.php/topic,1974.0.html

Has a poll re: which incidents YOU wear PBI to.

Are people on this forum retarded or something?

None of the people who have complained care if they get a response message throughout the night...

It is when one of Adelaide Fire People stuff up and send out a weather warning, which had been issued many hours before, gets sent out as a regional mail drop at 1:30 in the morning.

For the record, it wasn't the 01:30 mail drop that annoyed me, it was the one at 07:43 that got under my skin.

annoyed the scheiße outta me!

made me want to ring Adelaide fires alarm number, just to give them a weather report!

seriously though, WTF were they smoking??

I know you guys enjoy stirring reactions and the like, but really, are these comments about the Seaford brigade necessary, or are they going to help in anyway.

It would be great if this forum could stay decent, and become more about fact, not about people stirring scheiße for the sake of it.

Mods, Please note, It would be greatly appreciated by me, and I'm pretty sure everyone else at seaford, if you could either lock this thread, or remove all the rubbish posts that are not based on FACT.

how about we just respond with the appropriate rescue or BA crew dependant on the incident type..... surely we all know the CFS SOPs for minimum crewing, doesnt matter whos area it is

Sorry, but actually it does matter whos area it is. If the brigade is responding  into an MFS area, the minimum is 2 BA operators. no question about it, if you cant get 2 ba operators the EMA agreement says DEFAULT! Same goes for road crash i believe (but not 100% sure).

Also put it this way, how would you feel in this FICTIONAL scenario:

You are OIC on first arriving CFS truck at a house fire confined to 1 bedroom.
You have 1 BA team on your truck, and you know that the next CFS appliance is 2 minutes down the road with 2 BA operators on board. And an mfs appliance is on its way to your station for COQ

Whilst your first BA crew is making entry, the job begins to escalate, you call for a second alarm.

The second CFS appliance shows up and their BA team also begins an aggressive interior attack.

2 minutes later the COQ MFS truck(which you assume have a minimum of 2 ba operators, as thats what your EMA agreement says) rock up. <the issue is between them they have exactly ZERO Ba operators.>

2 Minutes after that, another MFS appliance shows up, same situation, zero BA operators.

Now what do you do? you have 2 BA teams attempting an aggressive interior attack, with no rescue personnel in case the poop hits the fan inside.

HOW WOULD YOU LIKE IT IF THIS HAPPENED TO YOU!?!

THIS IS THE POTENTIAL SITUATION THAT YOU ARE SETTING UP YOUR NEIGHBORING MFS CREWS UP FOR BY NOT FOLLOWING EMA RESPONSE PLANS!

The MFS would not do this to us, so why would we do it to them?

1908950   16:36:49   26-08-07   MFS: INC # 39 - 26/08/07 16:36,RESPOND Vehicle Accident,QUARRY RD,MCLAREN VALE, MAP 206 D 1 ,,SINGLE VEHICLE ROLLOVER, JUST PAST MOTORCROSS CLUB,16624 1638*CFSRES: CFS: KYEEMA GROUP

1908952   16:36:45   26-08-07   MFS: INC # 39 - 26/08/07 16:36,RESPOND Vehicle Accident,QUARRY RD,MCLAREN VALE, MAP 206 D 1 ,,SINGLE VEHICLE ROLLOVER, JUST PAST MOTORCROSS CLUB,16624 1638*CFSRES: CFS: McLaren Vale

1908950   16:36:36   26-08-07   MFS: INC # 39 - 26/08/07 16:36,RESPOND Vehicle Accident,QUARRY RD,MCLAREN VALE, MAP 206 D 1 ,,SINGLE VEHICLE ROLLOVER, JUST PAST MOTORCROSS CLUB,16624 1638*CFSRES: CFS: KYEEMA GROUP

1908955   16:36:34   26-08-07   MFS: INC # 39 - 26/08/07 16:36,RESPOND Vehicle Accident,QUARRY RD,MCLAREN VALE, MAP 206 D 1 ,,SINGLE VEHICLE ROLLOVER, JUST PAST MOTORCROSS CLUB,16624 1638*CFSRES: CFS: Willunga

1908951   16:40:27   26-08-07   MFS: INC # 41 - 26/08/07 16:40,RESPOND Vehicle Accident,QUARRY RD,MCLAREN VALE, MAP 206 D 1 ,,NEAR MOTORCROSS CLUB,16219*CFSRES: CFS: Aldigna Beach

It seems to me that MFS comms are still stuffing things up, talk about the closest and most appropriate rescource, that call should have been SEAFORD (fire/rapid interventiuon), Aldinga (rescue) Mc Vale (2nd Fire) and CD439 (2nd Rescue)!!

When will they get it right!

I take it they were stating that they were a "Qualified Firefighter" on a cover letter for a job as an ESO, or to become part of the Mines Rescue team??

In this aspect, they probably think they are qualified...

If you was writing a job application for an emergency services job, it is obvious that you would be listing all of your Nationaly Acredited Training units gained through CFS, especialy since the SAMFS have started RPL.

So in general terms, this person could probably be considered a "qualified firefighter" eg. if i was applying for a job, i would probably put

JOE BLOGS

CFS LEVEL 1(or 2, or 3) FIREFIGHTER
ROAD CRASH RESCUE OPERATOR
SEINOR FIRST AIDER

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EX-Seaford24p, and Seaford Pumper. both have/had the trolley setup on the rear.

I also gather from a meeting that i attened last night that Euan wants to try to set up USAR rescources within the SACFS...

my school is about 300m away from the station, so i am always first there...

dont get me wrong, school still places higher in my priorities than cfs, but when it is something that can be caught up on easliy, cfs comes 1st...

i have found that half the stuff in year 12 (especially physics and maths) is just repitition!