SA Firefighter

Food was nice and lots of it... most people lose weight from sweat, i actually gained on B.A! Anyway in our brigade we normally suffer during daytime for RCR members, even though we have another whole truck of non-rcr! But as you said the State says the limits, and until someone in our brigade steps out, none of us younger ones will get a chance and WE ARE LOOSING MEMBERS OVER THIS!!!! That is one downside of CFS i think. Stopping someone from wanting to do a course. I understand more training comes back on the brigade in this situation obviously.

Hi,

In the Angaston Group every appliance is fitted with a UHF CB for mainly rural use with farmers. We also use it as a spare chat channel and it comes in handy! We do use it a lot when we have MVA's on the highway to get info from trucks, or to tell trucks about diverts etc, etc. I think after the E.P fires they are making this more common.

Hi All,

Are there any brigades having trouble getting members into RCR courses at Brukunga? Our brigade is at our level but still struggle for crew some times, but when can always crew nearly two trucks with non rcr guys?
I think the re-accred must be done after you obtain a book for every rcr trained member, then it takes "AGES" to get everyone through.

Puts a lot of pressure on your briagade training resources.

Hi All,

I just thought that i would comment on people thinking that CFS will cover their homes. In our group we only have 8 capable bush fire fighting appliances. If we have an appliance at each house at a fire, who will fight the fire? Residents have been told about this and they do not seem to care.
On another note about the Eyre Pen. fires if you think what the CFS did the night before when they were trying to contain those fires. I forget exeactly CFS rules but i think it is something like 5 hours that you are allowed to be on the fireground for at a time. How close is the next briagade over there, it is almost the same time for us to get 4 full group strike teams here as it takes to get one striketeam here. With such a vast area with little resources it just doesnt work.