SA Firefighter

Bill... you need to realise we use most practise the US does... all the fire servicing and maintenance and install is copied off US. All fire truck Pumps are copies of US systems... all rescue strategy are copied off US

With the name private contractor and saying im not in service 6 times you might get the idea im not... funny about that ey.

I don't have BFF or MFS or Service training cause for the majoirty of the stuff i do and the company i work for does... those same practises will leave someone dead...

I have conducted rescues above 100m... pratice and for real. Am BA qualified instructor, hazmat qualified, confined space qualified, EMS vehicle qualified through transport sa, transport NSW, transport QLD.

I have done a cadetship in training... cert 4. Work for RTO. I have been doing this stuff since i was in my late teens.

I have been taught by ex sas, ex star, and ex MFS training officers. I am fully trained in the use of pumper, tanker, brushtruck and arials.

I will aknowledge i don't know filtered all about wildifre, CRC, chainsaw use but i have been working with fire engineers for 15years and they have taught me structural fire fighting to same if not above MFS...

Hope that enough for you mate.

Not knowing much of your background  it is clear you are not familiar with Aus fire services. Most of our strategies and tactics have nothing in common with the US way of doing things at all, not even close. If I am forced to make a comparison we are much more like European fire services.

It is interesting to me that you are claiming vast experience and ability to train people better than fire services, but if you have not worked in fire services how would you know? Not an attack a genuine question.

People are allowed to share what they do and where they do it. The only stipulation is that people are not here for the purpose of soliciting for business purposes.

So you can talk about the stuff you do SAPC. It's so fine!!!!!

Perhaps there are some wondering if you may be disguising your intent to advertise by generating discussion. If you wish to advertise PM me.

If you wish to discuss interesting topics with excellent people then carry on, just be assured we are watching....

Yeah, its good for them, but what about the rest that don't have huge bank accounts....what ever happened to everyone being equal now, isn't this a typical example of the old days pre-ESL where we have those with bucket loads of money getting top of the range gear, and those without getting the basic "what can be afforded" truck and some of us have to push you know what up hill to get even that !

I just find it outrageous that CFS allows brigades like Mt Barker, Millicent,Nuriootpa, Morphett Vale etc to get around in the bare basics, and less and then agree's to this very well specced pumper to be built for Burnside-----who essentially have nothing to speak of in their very small area, remember we can't use the MFS back up arguement, those of us that have worked on SFEC upgrades know full well about that !!

I am not having a go at Burnside at all, all the power to them for convincing the CFS to allow this, I just hope that this is not a once off, but for that kind of money, thats going to be the last and only one we see. Its not for lack of trying from some other brigades, but how the filtered are we supposed to bargain when we don't have money to bargain with.  If CFS offers you a Type 2 what are you suppose to say "no thanks, we don't want one, we are going to hold out for something better" again, if you have no money and the risk to need a pumper what are you suppose to do.

Ps: I am sorry if I offend anyone, but thats how I feel.

What would be achieved by refusing Burnside. I hate the all should be equal philosophy. If they have done the hard yards to afford something that benefits the community I am all for it. The fact that they have little in their own area is a mute argument. Look at what they actually respond to and the immediate risks in the hills above. It's may prove to be an ideal appliance to support other brigades. These days a brigades own area is becoming less important with the closest most appropriate resources going.....(but that's another story..

Progress is progress the state needs brigades to show leadership and demonstrate what can be achieved. Good on them!

I hope Burnside people will post pics here when they can!!!!

Ridiculous! There was nothing in that video that portrayed the service in a poor light. Who told you to remove it?

Quote from: Firefrog on June 19, 2008, 10:00:21 AM

Quote from: CFS_Firey on June 19, 2008, 12:12:14 AM

I thought introducting oxygen to an oxygen starved fire was called a backdraft, not a flashover...?

to be technically correct introducing oxygen could cause either phenomenon to occur. All depends on the conditions in the room/structure.

I am shocked at the lack of BA use for car fires!!!

To be technically correct, if there is limited ventilation and hence a lack of oxygen - the introduction of oxygen causes a sudden deflagration, thats a backdraught.

You can introduce as much oxygen as you want to a room, but until the room and its contents are heated sufficiently, and there is an ignition point for the released pyrolysis gases, it ain't flashing.

6739264 but you are only partly correct. 

If an increase in oxygen causes a sudden event such as blow torching from openings then that is likely to be a back draught. A back draught is only likely to occur in a room where there is a lot of heat and the room is rich in fuel, most probably above the UFL.

By definition a flash over is the point at which a growing fire transitions and becomes a fully involved fire (that could be a very fast and violent event but not a back draught. So in the absence of sufficient heat in an oxygen starved fire a back draught may not occur, however the overall increase in fire behaviour due to more air may infact cause the fire to become rapidly fully involved by flashing over especially if the room is already rich in fuel.

But that's off topic, still would not put out a car fire without BA. Too many firies are dying of cancer. The national UFU are having a campaign right now about awareness of workplace exposure to all sorts of nasties.

Only need one fire fighter to Don up and only takes 30 - 50 seconds to do.

Play safe I say!

I would think a volunteer service would welcome free marketing, especially a medium as powerful as the net and You tube.

If a volunteer fire service is going to be attractive to Younger people perhaps more you tube videos is needed.

Just a thought.....

how about a section to post fire video links??

I'll start a thread and you can post video links in there.

VTIC

  So now I know the reason why the site has seemed calmer and more reasonable. Numbers was away!

Note to self Ban Numbers....Oh wait he doesn't deserve it......

 

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Yep - saw that ad several times in the last few days....Starts Monday.

Although I do like the idea of a station manned with nothing but recruits. 

Be a motivated by the book station