SA Firefighter

Yeah, come and see Blue dressed in a gas tight suit...

No names but at a recent incident I went to it was near impossible to figure out call signs for sectors, as they called each other by pet or first names over the radio - like 'mum', which doesn't help the rest of us. Maybe I should have followed suit and called that command car 'mum' as well.... 

What the?? are they scared that  someone will take it's spirit away

HA! 
I say we steal it and take it for a run Camo, let the red light cameras in town take a photo for ya

Andrew is a firefighter from Victoria.

I don't watch TV by the way, but its great to hear they are putting recycling water on the agenda - and making some faces turn red at the difficulty encountered in making grey water use a reality due to a development approval system that is antiquated and unnecessarily nervous about disease risks.

For info. Has this been discussed already? I couldn't find it anywhere if it has.
http://www.bushfirereview.cfs.sa.gov.au/

Quote from the website:
"We live in the driest state in Australia. Our state is vulnerable to bushfires and the number of bushfires that our emergency services are responding to is ever increasing.

With this in mind, in late 2006, I instigated the first formal review into bushfire prevention management since the early 1980’s.

The review recognises that the management of bushfires occurs within the broader emergency management framework of prevention, preparedness, response and recovery.

You are invited to provide input into the review. The terms of reference and some accompanying questions have been developed to assist with this.

As part of the review a reference group has been established to consider community input. They will also take into account the recommendations from Project Phoenix, the CFS internal review into the Wangary Bushfire and the outcomes of the Independent inquiry into the Eyre Peninsula Bushfires.

At the end of the review it is hoped that South Australia will have a bushfire prevention management framework that reflects best practice; engages and involves those who have a stake in community safety; improves the bushfire safety of the community; and minimises damage to those things that are valued by the community.

I welcome your input.

Hon Carmel Zollo MLC"

Main Street Birdwood, Sharn

Ah, should have guessed by the bark at the base - clearly a Birdwood Eucalyptus leucoxylon ssp leucoxylon. LOL

Did this hydrant thread get resolved? What is the appropriate way to go about requests for fixing? I hear so many stories about dodgy / misaligned / broken / unidentifiable / bituminised plugs, its a wonder we find any water at all for going house fires 

Heard about the budget cuts just after going to Euan's talk on all the training options they were looking at introducing. Can't see how they'll do that without cash! Maybe that was the idea behind involving volunteers in the process - agreement and support from thousands of volunteers for all this new training would make favourable ripples at the cash-dispensing level...

I know quite a few people up that way and in my experience you can safely assume you are responding the whole lot from the local pub - maybe the Roxby pub was closer to the fire than Andamooka station 

I know that in my Brigade we are fortunate to have someone who is able to deliver BFF1 who when we have a new person to the Brigade we are able to start training them from night two after the induction.

I've done BFF1 three times (long story involving CFS losing paperwork), have experience providing training to volunteers and have my Certificate IV in Workplace Assessment and Training AND have told CFS that many many times and they never ask me to help. The next time CFS whinge about a lack of trainers I might actually have to slap someone   We could well be training up our new vollies and get them signed off on a few modules as you do malleefire.

  serenity now.....

Are you sticking up for P-platers Mack? Wouldn't happen to be one would ya 
I totalled my parents car when I was on my P's, so I know what they're like from personal experience (or incidentally, lack there of). There are some areas that I'd place bets going to an MVA (if that wasn't in such poor taste) that it was a P plate driver, more often male than not. I wonder if the RAAP program is making any impact on statistics for young drivers.

1 tiny grassie started by a flying burning bunch of feathers.

What the-?

I heard a recent story about a fire being started by a flaming magpie. Had hit a powerline or something. Sounds a bit bizarre to me 

My pager hasn't gone off all day (shouldn't have said that should I....  )

I was joking about the CO, sorry should have put smileys     

But it's still not exactly healthy. Though there are worse smells to fill the cabin with, like sweaty fire fighter, or morning breath on 3am call outs