SA Firefighter

Was uncomfortable watching the Aussie lose the cricket..


Unfortunately just one of those things that comes with the job.. 

The Aussies lost deliberately, they felt so sorry for the poms they had to let them win one game against them this summer.
Anyway back to the topic, its one of those things you don't really know before you roll if your only going to be doing external attack. In this case would have been good to know, would have picked my nomex to wear hands down.

Sounds like a full on job.

Jasec im in the Lower South East of South Australia near Mount Gambier and NPWSA down here dont employ people for their fire crews as their full time staff do every thing

Oh ok, fair enough, just thought id try help, do they have much SAwater land down there.

Dont worry guys i aint giving up just yet as ARA Jobs are gonna help me i've got an appointment to participate in something called a Work Ready Group next Friday hopefully they will be able to find me a job where i can use my fire fighting 

If you are looking for a some work where you can use your firefighting, you could contact your local National sparks office, they are always looking for guys to be employed through westaff, you get called in for burnoffs, big fires, taskforces etc, it could be a good stepping stone for a seasonal job next fire season.

I wouldnt complain if i had to do the course again

You must remember that this whole post is about burnover training, if you are at a fire that is slow moving, no wind and on flat ground you are most probably going to be in conditions that will lead to burnover, so yeah go in and chase it, but we are talking burnover, you don't go chasing fires that are moving fast with high winds or on sloping ground.

Good to hear, will be good to get on to it i reckon.

Well i havent done CFB but certainly know better than to flood a place for a small fire. Basic firefighting skills...

It is, but some people can get a little excited when they seem flames. Ive been to many fires where the first arriving trucks have caused more water damage than the fire would have ever done.

Maybe we should stick a big deadman zone sticker next to it!!!

Because that brigade will be closed down.

If this training is Nat Acc. they have no option but to accept it, as long as it is within the same package. There are lots of cases where cfs has not been accepting these and they are identical.

Its about time that some brigade's wake up and look at your risk some urban brigade's are just that URBAN and so there is no need to take ya pumper into the scrub as you have a rural appliances to do that....

I agree, but some brigades have such a big rural risk as well they need 2 4WD appliances, if you gave all the EMA brigades type2 pumpers and a standard 24/34, what happens if your group has a big rural job there goes your 24/34. In a group like Mawson if  H/V, M/V and Seaford all had 2WD pumpers when Mt Bold went up They would have been with out a single 4WD appliance, in short basically no fire cover for the whole southern end of Onka Gorge. The new appliances that are coming out are more than adequate for what most of our urban risks are, lets face it we are not dealing with city CBD buildings.

one thing that I didn't get taught at burn over training that has occurred to me now is that it isn't uncommon to be on 5 to 10 lengths of lay flat away from the truck. Chances are you wont hear the yelp and if you do it is any ware from 2-20 min walk to the truck thought scrub and goat country. not to mention that the conditions at the truck could be very different that the conditions at the end of the hose.

Id be asking some serious question about the decision making of your officer, sector comm, or strike team leader if they are putting you 5-10 hose lengths away from the truck in situation where a REAL burnover might happen.