SA Firefighter

Chook unfortunately these issues are something that you ,me and every concerned responder has to push up through the chain of command ,as I said on a previous post David Place is aware of the issue, but palmed my concerns onto one of his minions ,and jack has been done, a sad inditement on SAFECOM .

Cheers Jaff

Knackers I think you probably have it nailed

Cheers Jaff

Can anyone explain the time discrepancy for an incident that occurred this morning, ambos responded to car rollover on the Strathalbyn-Meadows  road at0225hrs. CFS and SES were responded to inc no 7 at 0259hrs car rollover Strathalbyn-Meadows road 4kms towards Meadows ,I assume the same incident.
That unless my maths is incorrect is a delay of response time of 34mins.
Question do SAPOL or SAAS carry dry powder fire extinguishers for perhaps using in the unfortunate event of an entrapment with a fire starting and no fire cover on scene.
Question do SAPOL or SAAS as a procedure at an accident scene check that the car involved ignition is turned off and in gear and handbrake applied.

Cheers Jaff

Yes I agree Boredmatrix every situation is a "seemingly unknown situation" when your responding as a first responder, so we bang on about make sure you all wear correct PPE and the like to give yourselves the best possible chance of getting the job done whilst minimising the risks. Wouldn't fire cover or entrapment stabilisation almost be an extension of PPE procedures for people without the adequate equipment to deal with those situations ,SAAS crews would not start treating a bleeding victim without donning latex gloves as a barrier, correct PPE procedures!!
So maybe despatch as part of there role in minimising the risk to the crews that they send ,whether it be SAAS or SAPOL who takes the call, should automatically send the complimentary services.
There have been various cases talked about on these posts over the last few months, were we have all been perplexed over "dispatch" irregularities and as
Rescuehazmat has pointed out to me, maybe without the hard facts,these are not for us to determine, put an issues register in, if you feel you have been affected and let the proper people deal withit.
As far as what I think of ambo's and paramedics ,in my dealing with them over 20 odd years ,they have never been anything but consumate professionals, who can sometimes be put into a difficult position .

Cheers Jaff

If it was one of my kids trapped in a car, 10 seconds is too long ,the time discrepancy should be logged and a issues register form should be filled in.
Its amazing that SAAS would respond their crews into an seemingly unknown situation ,where do their duty of care responsibilities towards their own people lie!!

Cheers Jaff

"Kadina,Wallaroo and Moonta services under review",filtered according to one "global warming" website they wont be under review they will be under water,now that will give technical services a heartache fitting 20 meter snorkels to all seaside adjacent brigades trucks!!

Cheers Jaff

I agree with numbers, Every fire that ive been too , or been in charge of, when looked at in the clear light of day we could have of done better at.
Incident debriefs are not intended to be "blame games" they are a way of bettering ourselves ,identifying problems and putting measures in place so that we dont repeat the mistakes, "lessons learned".
CFS might need to revisit ,some of there procedures as would MFS occasionaly, this is best done in a private and not played out in the media ,once Pandoras box is opened its very hard to shut, UFU be careful no one is without fault!!!!

Cheers Jaff

Looking for some feedback and advice on GPS units,what do brigades run ? whats good? whats bad???

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Struth Chook, your not suggesting the Minister in a bikini or some weird scheiße like that are you !!

Darius your right! it is not new as such, but what is new is that the regions(region 1 at least)are now breaking up the register to individual agencies to try to get to the root cause of some of our angst, again if we dont document it time and time again, we cant build a case for procedural change.

The issue registers are compiled at the regional offices,it will be addressed.

Has anyone seen the surf lifesaving adverts on the TV there filtered sensational, almost makes me want to pull on the budgie smugglers and join em!!
So the question begs to be asked why isn't the government or our own emergency organisations using adverts/media to promote us like the surf lifesaving does.
Finance they will say,we dont have the finance, well given the ever increasing age of the CFS and SES volunteers,they wont have a volunteer emergency service in the not to distant future ,if they dont start to promote us sooner rather than later and draw in younger members and reinvigorate the older members, it would be cheaper in the long run .

There goes our grand plans wombat