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Country Fire Service / Re: Paid CFS staff as Officers in Brigades
« on: January 22, 2008, 07:35:17 PM »
As far as I know the only restriction on CFS Staff is that they cannot hold the position of  Captain or above, in their volunteer role. I recently became CFS Staff and there has been no issue that I hold the position on 1st Lieutenant in my brigade. As for not being around, I still have to make sure I only work 10 in 14 days, so even though I might go off around the state for work I'm still available for call outs a minimum of 4 days a fortnight plus mornings if I'm working afternoon shift or evenings for day shift. I cannot see why I should have to be demoted back to being a firefighter just because I am also CFS staff, if my peers in my brigade believe me to be the right person to be in the position does it really matter what I do as a profession?

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Forced evacuation at bushfires
« on: October 27, 2007, 04:18:25 PM »
If you want to know CFS's stand on evacuations,get on a Suppress Wildfire course and pay attention to the Protect People Unit. It is all clearly layed out.

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Country Fire Service / Re: White CFS Trucks
« on: October 21, 2007, 08:59:07 PM »
Our old CFS Blitz was pink once, it got hit by a retardant drop. :lol:

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SA Firefighter General / Re: burn over drill
« on: October 12, 2007, 06:32:19 PM »
The Burnover drill in its black and white form should be for new members so they learn the procedure and where things are. Once you are dealing with members who have been around a while it should be incorporated into other training. The best is to do it without prior notice. You still can tick all the boxes if the crews do the right thing. If you are only doing it once a year, is that really enough? Do you only practice hose lays, pumps or draughting once a year? Sounds like a few BTO's don' have much imagination.

As for, what do you do if you are too far from an appliance, you might want to revisit Prevent Injury from BFF1. It's all fairly clear.

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