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SAAS has changed the recruiting this year it now works on a 2 year cycle my station is recruiting now and we need all the help we can get having only 5 crew puts alot of presure on others.

The thought of stations not takiing people on because they dont reside in the station catchment is pathetic. i cant live in the town of my station cause of my partners work we have to live within 8 minutes of his station.
 
i think we should give it ago this year and see what happens at the end of the day we are vollys and what are they going to do sack us we have support through the AEA if anybody thinks they are being unfairly treated then find out who your nearest AEA rep is or contact the AEA for advice.
 
I realise that volunteeing is harder for somepeople and i do find it hard but manage my 12 hours a week.

Also can somebody tell me where they found out the amount of hours SAAS wants all i can find in the CDP book is 1 shift aweek and 2 trainings a month.

VOLLYAMBO for your information i travel over an hour to be on call i sit there for 12 hours and while im there i do some of my SAAS training to kill time also i have come from one of those busy stations and i have cut back from doing as many hours as i use to. being 60 hours out of a week now down to 12 big change
 
 YES the CDP book came out late not the first time SAAS has done this also if you spent 5 months with no education maybe you should have done something like revision of things you already know to be come better at them.
 
 Some people wont be able to handle the fact that SAAS want vollys to do more of there own learning and doing more hours to weed out the want to be's there are alot of vollys out there who are well lets say unsafe, and this would be SAAS's way of saying shape up or ship out. but as i said last time SAAS have been going to increase our yearly hours for the last THREE years and havent done it so when it happens or should i say if it happens lets give it ago

Lets bring the vollys foward and out of the past and make it a profesinal service that people wont be able to tell the difference between paid and volly at the end of the day if we have to do 162 hours a year or 600 plus.

624 hours a year is 12 hours aweek and its up to you how you get your 12 hours maybe split it into 2 6 hours shifts insted and even if you fall short of the hours providing you have good reason for example work then saas will help you.     

my apolligies was ment to be is now a public sector not is not a public sector

Thanks il contact HQ and ask

Hi all,
 I am studying emergency management at UNI and i am required to do an assignment on a major emergency i am doing the black tuesday fire on the LEP, how ever i have been looking for information on the mount osmand fire from the same day if anybody knows where i could get some information on that fire please let me know.
 I have been unable to find anything in relation to the fire excpet for a statement saying that the fire destroyed so much land homes etc etc.

i think the whole point was to try and stay as close to the old uniform as possible. just give it a bit of a revamp it looks good and feels pretty comfy i cant wait till we are back in green, all we need now is our lovely epaulettes and uniform compleate thank goodness its only our clinical level on them!!!!!!!!!!!!

The SAAS clean is just about done woohoo, not long to go and back to green. I think there is only a few stations to go and its all done few in south region anda few in north and its done from what i can remember seeing on the cleaning programe. 

19:39:55 14-02-10 MFS: CFSRES INC082 14/02/10 19:37,RESPOND GRASS FIRE,CLONLEA PARK,MURRAY RD,WILLASTON MAP 23 M 2 TG182,ENTER MURRAY STREET,CONC00 CFS Concordia Response

19:49:15 14-02-10 CONC: *CFSRES: CONCORDIA CFS RESPONDING TO INCIDENT 14-02-10 19:46 CFS Concordia Response

20:19:44 14-02-10 MFS: CFSRES INC086 14/02/10 20:16,RESPOND Tree Down,RIGHT BY THE PHONE BOX ON ROSEDALE RD,ROSEDALE MAP 321 H 8 TG096,TREE ON CARAVAN. DIA 30CM. CALLER MANION, - 8524 9132. P3.,CONC00 CFS Concordia Response


What would they do here seeing that it is fairly large fire they are attending and they only have one truck?

lyndoch still had 34P being crewed up for a response to gawler so maybe they would have sent them inplace of concordia as the fire was a higher priority

When medstar first took over as the retrieval service they were doing pead cases as well,
 
 its good to see that there is now a pead team available but do they do roadside trauma as well or just hospital to hospital? at the SAAS conference last year the guy who took us through medstar base said they would be doing all road side retrievals. 

person unresponsive would be the best way to put it unless a trained person has called it in as a confiremd fatality

im not sure i have always only been able to drive a CFS appliance since getting a full licence but there would be brigades and units that would alow under the right conditions.
 
 Pip may be able to shed some better light on this   

havent heard anything but from what was taken out of it i think a few thigns were put in to action well at lest getting started, but with most things time is what is needed

there are a few private ambulance services out there but they are non emergency as in they dont 000 calls as for the NSW paltes could just be a sprinter that was brought in from NSW