SA Firefighter

I copied it from an American website....so what can you expect?

I have family and friends in the hills who actually use the pager site, so they know if their is a fire burning in their area and whether they need to put their fire plans into action.

Tell us your facts of life.

whether it be a useless fact or something funny.

- A 'jiffy' is a unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
- Every time you lick a stamp, you consume 1/10 of a calorie.

I can agree....SAAS should be encrypted but not the Fire Service.

People use the information they hear on the scanner to determine how they will respond i.e. leaving their home during a fire etc.  You cant rely on the CFS or the media to provide you with up to date info on what is happening on the front line.

Also there is rarely if any private information that is given across the fire service radios.

OMG really? Didnt see that one coming! 

minor detail 

I sat in front of my new dishwasher and watched that to make sure it had no leaks.....thrilling stuff!

4 is the minimum for what?  crewing?  read it again. 

Ok granted it may prove useful on the round up of running grass fires with low crew numbers but they still have to get off and mop up, which requires a minimum of 3 people, which is the minimum you need for a running grass fire attack but is then against SOP's or COSO's or OMG's or Whatever!

The problem with BMIs is that they differ from people to people regarding results, for instance i have a BMI of 32 but i don't have a gut and a slimish upper body BUT i have big legs from running, footy etc. Your body weight could be distributed over different areas not just your guts. Personally i think occupational therapists should be doing the medicals.

and its cases like this where the doctors discretion should be able to be used.

The "type 2" or medium pumper is more of a proper fire truck than our "P's" bolted to the back of a tray top truck, so i would expect them to stay in their brigades for probably the full 20 years if thats possible.

Even if they chose to cycle em.....where would they send em?  Those that have pumpers are probably the only ones that deserve them, unless they are going to take the angle of the CFA and give every brigade that has a house, a pumper.

how about a shared private access road (driveway if you like) with more than one property accessed off that?  under the new scheme all those properties would have the same "address".  (this is a real example in my brigade area affecting 3 properties)

I guess they are numbered like any housing block with multiple structures on it.  1/124 or A/124 or 1232A

I can understand why the public tune out when it comes to fire safety.  Every year the CFS comes on the media and says its going to be the worst summer on record due to weather conditions and fuel loadings.

Fuel loadings in the parks continue to grow and always will until a fire comes along....its just nature.  Wouldnt be to worried about it, whatever happens will happen regardless of our response.

Luckily enough down here the pine forests provide a fairly unique fuel loading.  The age of the pines gives you a good indicator as to the fuel loadings below.