SA Firefighter

Just did my rcr coures a couple of weekends ago, we did not manage to get a single windscreen out!!!

We got told that we should tru to work around it, unless it is a H - mould, where you can just cut it out with a stanley knife.

If it is one of the ones that is glues in you can sometimes cut around it with a draw knife, but it is rather time consuming. and if the glue covers too much surface area, you amy need to use a screw driver to finish the job.

When working around it, the best way to do it is with a forward roof roll,
(cut B, C, D pillars, relief cuts both sides 10cm back from A pillar, and fold forward using crowbar to make crease in roof.)
or use an a-pillar lift to free legs from entrapment. (cut throgh Apillar complety just above sill level , cut a-pillar again just above dash, cutting through windscreen, open bonnet and cut relief cut in fender "c channel", cribb under sill inline with a-pillar, spread lowest cut on a pillar so as to lift the dash up and out of the way)

just remember your soft and hard protection!!!

One good way is to just avoid it completely, just cut all pillers including the 'A' piller and fold the roof forward on the windscreen and it will usually just pull out and you can then take the roof away windscreen and all....

just my opinion, but i would prefer to go for a forward roof roll... less chance of roof being drepped on casualty/ambo/anyone, same number of cuts, and windscreen remains in tact, obriously it may be impossible if it is car vs tree/ stobie head on, but in that case i would still prefer to halligan across the entire roof to keep the screen intact

i always laugh when my pager goes off for that one, because it is my school, so i have to leave school, jump on a truck and then respond back to school.

ohh, and they never evacuate when the alarms go off, which is annoying

Student, and Woolworths Nightfill Manager.

School is great when it comes to fire calls, its just funny when i am actually responding to a private alarm at my own school during scholl hours...

Work is OK with it, there is an emergency services clause in my EBA that says i get paid for any time lost on presentation of a note from my oic. I generally dont leve during work hours though, becase I supervise 6 people and there is no one else to cover me. As for stike teams and large incidents i tell them that if they dont let me go i will resign, and it works!!!

Preasure is everything when you are working with sidelines, until you FEEL the difference of a 1 stage 2 stage or even 3 stage pump you will never know.

Heavy Rescue gear mounted on slide out tray at rear,
4WD would be nice, Needs big engine, BA seats, Air Cond, BIG 3 stage midmount pump, Auto gearbox. air conditioning, and cup holders

alternativly, http://www.fire.org.nz/photo/vehicles/Type4.htm minus the ariel capacity! 4700LPM midmount darley

a little birdy... i have heard from a very high up birdy (not mfs, cfs or safecom)(think even higher than the individual services) that the seaford MFS station wont be hapening in the near future...

In my opinion, the issue with Part time staffed CFS/MFS/SAFECOM stations is what this would do to the brigade moral.

I can tell you, I would not be showing up duiring the day if i know that there is a team of paid firefighters that are more than capable of doing the job waiting to go. I think we would be much better offering incentives for the current vollies to   turnout more often, eg. CFS retained style system, paid part time for time spent at calls ONLY. Providing funding to employeers that allow worker to leave for firecalls. actually listen to vollies in terms of what they want (if burnside want a scania, give them a scania - dont just play the copout line of "the funding doesnt allow it" we work for free for F&*^s sake!! If people are physically and mentally apt to undertake training - let them, if they are old enough to see dead bodies at car accidents, why cant they participate in a BA course???

End Rant*

Just my humble opinion,
Pixie

a few questions...

is anyone from here going??

what is the quickest way to get from seaford to brakunga???

are there any difficult bits to the course, or is it just whats in the book??

The new bus must not be in action yet, as it was the old one at the ICA fire

I think (hope) camo is refering to 24P going to YAHL with his too good comment...

The dennis went to the commercial fire this morn, but didnt get used like i would have liked it to... as we were on the second response, the fire was contained by the time we got there. The BA seats came in handy for our opperators...its great when you can tell the METS guys that you have BA crew donned up ready to go before your crew even get off the truck...

I vote dennis...

Im surprised happys wern't called for the ICA fire this morning though, as the would be a similar distance as us, and also have an urban pumper...

sorry pip

i dont think the problem with the priming would have been fixed, as it took over 6 weeks to get it fixed in the first instance, and it still had probs. if anyone can get pics of it lined up with all of stirlings other appliances it would be cool,

it is a good truck, it was just a bit slow... and the lack of dual cab annoyed people (the dennis is better  )

Is that the one on the corner of albany and oxford streets, it looks like it from the gazebo?

I have some photo's of it afterwards on the cfs camera...along with the BA/Hazmat tender that MFS brought down.