SA Firefighter

Closed circuit BA's have there uses and they are good at them! But they are not ideal for quick entry limited duration jobs.

Look at the initial $$$ to buy them, then maintain them, testing and recommissioning after use!

Use them a few times and you will be turned off them quick smart 

Just a few comments on the easier breathing... even with the sets that have inbuilt ice canister after a few hours of work the air is really hot to breath!

Faster deployment hmmm i would disagree, 3 checks with OCBA, to be confident with a CCBA over 10 checks would be good!

How does Open circuit BA increase CO2 buildup. Exhaled air is spent to atmosphere, so you keep breathing a normal atmosphere of air with each inhaled breath of air.

If you would like me to provide more detail re OC /CC BA let me know!

Sam

Please tell me how SAAS country vollies have a choice of doing transfers? If you are rostered on you do the case. If you are not rostered on they page until they get a crew. RFDS does not work around vollie times, they work around there own schedules. Plus in rural areas where your next ambulance is 1 hour away you don't have a choice.

Bordertown, Waikerie Nuriootpa.

You have 3 people and your nearest backup is 40 minutes away, do you respond?

Yeah Nuri has confined space gear.

ropes, tripod, harnesses, and hooker line really.

Just being a smart donkey country girl. All in good humor....

I was actually at that one, but your opinion counts

Sam

LOL.... You should be running yourself, and then go to the wineries after that?

Structure helmets all the way.

PBI gold at MVA's can be a little bit awkward in small places for the rcr operators, but if needed it offers a good blood and sweat lining.....

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G'day All,

Just looking at that new 34 on the promotions site.

It looks almost like an rfs tanker or something? I also noticed that it looks like it has an overhead spraybar on the roof for burnover?

Any ideas why they are changing to a different batch already??

Hi guys,

Sorry about the pager site. Power blacked out and radio did not come back online.

UPS donations are accepted 

Sam

P.S all back online now

Yeah most brigades need more than they have.... Doesn't mean that you cant try with what you have got.. We have a winery here that stores millions of litres of spirits at once, we carry over 1,000 litres of foam... It doesn't last long and once that is gone it just becomes a logistical nightmare.

Anything current that has a decent pumping capacity is normally PTO driven, and normally is 2 wheel drive, except for a few 24 URPs out there.

It is an urban truck made for urban jobs..... You replace a rural truck with one you are down a truck for rural jobs?

Fixed alarms and private alarm, well all that i can say is that the "potential" for "real" incidents is their. I don't care that people say they are only alarms and they did no real fires, but it could just happen all at once one day!

It goes the same with MVA's i think in regards to entrapments no entrapments,,, does it mean that you only do 20 extractons a year and 40 non extractions mean that you shouldn't have RCR gear???

The CFS have a registered BOM user that i assume is free for all CFS brigades to use. We use it alot and it just gives you extra info about conditions.