SA Firefighter

I'd hate to be the one making up 900+ metres of hose!! If the fires in that far just let it burn

Forestry SA get quite knarky if they lose too many trees.  A Forestry SA worker once told me (true or not, im not sure) each fully grown pine tree is worth $30 each.  Thats quite a lot of dosh over a 1000HA(?) block of pines.

And they dont have a big enough budget to replace large amounts of trees that are lost by fire.

I cant for the life of me remember which one, but there is a CFS brigade run by a correction al facility somewhere..... either in region 3 or 6... not sure.

Pretty sure its Cadell

ok how many camo

Well at least 4 to ride the truck (as per sops) and at least two to change the battery.  One on the ladder and one footing the ladder. 


Sorry that was pretty lame.

and noone will go outside the group for fear of stirring up too much shiite and making a name for themself.....

I dont want to stir scheiße here but seriously grow up...its your safety!  Take it to the minister if you have to.


How would you feel if one of your fellow firies was killed or burned because of the lack of PPE.  I realise we used to use nomex but there was a change for a reason.

Sorry to step on some toes but you cant sit on your donkey any longer!  If someone has taken it higher then good on em and why the hell arent those higher people doing something to fix it!

yeah dont mind filling in the reports but 22 at one time?  My hand gets writers cramp after one line let alone 22 reports!

It will cause a nice mess one day.  Ambos will be attending to the patient in the car seat and the car will ignite/explode because no one disconnected the battery etc and the firies werent called until it was too late.

Coroner will have a field day

The point is that I might be 7 lengths of hoe from the truck and on burnt ground in a safe environment where by the time i can get to the truck the threat has passed or staying at the end of the hose is safer than running through unburnt scrub to get to the appliance where i am more likely to get caught.

How long is 7 lengths of a hoe?

One thing i have never liked about the way the burnover procedure is done is how you have to hold the branch out from under the rear cabin shield.

Would be nice to have something fitted to where the montiors go that squirts a fog of water over the crew deck.


Would this work?


Does the new cab halo system cover the rear crew deck also?

Did you see the CFA crew on the ABC special the other night? The did a demo of a burnover and they used woolen blankets fro protection on the back!! And this is after Linton.

I thought they were also under a shield as well?

I agree Jasec but unfortunately fires dont always follow the rules.

There copy would have to be better then mine.....go annoy them 

Gday,

What books do people have that are fire related?  Non Fiction or Fiction

All i got is "tried by fire" - History of the CFS.


Just purchased a book called "3000 degrees" from the states.  About a fire company (think FDNY) who battled a warehouse fire.


Camo

at the end of the series im willing to put it onto DVD for people to watch.  Will cost you P&H plus dvd costs though.