SA Firefighter

There still out there but under the name of OP'S BRIGADE.... and still do a great job.

Auxiliary members are now called Operational Support 

Didn't worry us....we were at a job....lucky for you AF!!

13:35:45 05-09-08 MENG: SECURITY RESTORED AT STN. IT SEEMS WE HAVE A NEW RECRUIT THAT WAS FLYING AROUND INSIDE. MENINGIE CAPTAIN. 5/09/2008 1:37:38 PM CFS Meningie Info

OK some questions 

Does this happen often in a country brigade ??
What did they use to get the bird out of the shed ??

Last time I tried to get a bird out it involved a few people walking with a large tarp to reduce the area that the bird could fly in until it realised that the shed door was open.

After the alarm went off, I attended the station and opened up the three automatic roller doors and the bird just flew out of our not so country station. He must have been hiding while we closed the station after our last job.

The trucks shouldn't be left idling in the shed anyway

Not sure how we are supposed to  build up air pressure for brakes then, oh, rev the crap out of them - they won't be idling then 

A course I did about 2 weeks ago, an email I was shown from the regional training person said only one travel claim per 4 people (presumably from the one brigade) would be accepted.

I find that a little hard to believe. It may be circumstantial that even if members of the same Brigade are attending the same course they may be travelling to the course from different locations where it is not possible to car pool. Every confirmation letter of a course states "wherever possible a command vehicle must be used in accordance with COSO yada yada yada". However, common sense should prevail if multiple members from the same Brigade are attending the same course and travel in the same car.

Look at it this way. These examples do NOT imply that petrol is cheap; it just illustrates how outrageous some prices are.
 
Can of Red Bull, 250ml, $2.95 ... $11.80 per litre.                           
                             
Robitussin Cough Mixture, 200ml, $9.95 ..... $199.00 per litre.

L'Oreal Revitalift Day Cream, 50ml, $29.95 ... $599.00 per litre.                     
                                                                                 Bundy Rum, 1250ml, $51.00 .... $40.80 per litre!                             
                                                                                 Visene Eye Drops, 15ml, $5.69 ... $379.00 per litre!                           
                                                                                 Britney Spears Fantasy Perfume, 50ml, $29 ... $580.00 per litre.                     
                                                                                 Evian water, 375ml, $2.95 ...$7.86 per litre!                               
 

As Pip mentioned, the FSI should have been programmed to alert (whatever pagers you want)in the event of a power failure. This is also connected to SMS a mobile phone in the event the paging system is down (again, whatever phone your Brigade chooses). Our Brigade has experienced several power outages and this has worked fine for us. Obviously AEC techs connected the system correctly. As for the siren thing with the power failure obviously a different problem. In the short,  AEC should have programmed the FSI to alert of power failures via pager(s), as per their contract.

Your Captain or Admin officer should have a form for you to fill out and fax to the PR dept to add you to the list. If you have trouble getting one PM and i will fax one to you.

Great day. Well done to all.
And i even got to meet TIMS  I did plant a tree to compensate for all the demos Matt! Cheers.

Hi all,
Just had a phone call from the SES (i know it is just a call centre) asking for donations. Are the SES conducting fundraising activities via the phone at the moment or could this be a scam?
Cheers.

Our brigade has done a fair amount of self funded training, often to get around SFEC issues. As far as non standard stowage issues, I was under the impression that as long as a risk assessment has been done and relevant training undertaken, there is little issue with with the equipment being used.

It would be nice to know a little bit more about what the concert is raising money for, rather than just "Angaston CFS Group"

There is a difference between standard stowage, non standard stowage and approved stowage 

This should be a little bit interesting. I'm sure that members of the group would like to know that they are being recorded.

I assume that much like it used to be 111 and 124 being recorded by the CFS(There are no doubt others, but these were the only ones relevant to Lofty Group) now it would be 150 and the other non simplex SAMFS talkgroups?

In our instance, the purchase of the scanner was passed at Group, so Captains should have advised all members what the circumstance was and that they would be recorded. All Regional talkgroups are recorderd. I bet half of the CFS population do not know that. If there was an obligation for CFS to advise all members i am sure they would have by now 

We successfully use a scanner with a recording program on the computer. Records both sides of a conversation, GRN, UHF or VHF. This is intended for radio traffic only tho. Has a date and time stamp as well.