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Incident Operations / MOVED: MVA SE Freeway Hahndorf
« on: August 23, 2007, 03:11:58 PM »

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The Humour Zone / Pecans in the Cemetary
« on: July 11, 2007, 06:13:48 PM »
On the outskirts of a small town, there was a big, old pecan tree. Just inside the cemetery fence. One day, two boys filled up a bucketful of nuts and sat down by the tree, out of sight, and began dividing the nuts."One for you, one for me. One for you, one for me," said one boy. Several dropped and rolled down toward the fence.
 
Another boy came riding along the road on his bicycle. As he passed, he thought he heard voices from inside the cemetery. He slowed down to investigate. Sure enough, he heard, "One for you, one for me. One for you, one for me.”
 
He just knew what it was. He jumped back on his bike and rode off. Just around the bend he met an old man with a cane, hobbling along.
"Come here quick," said the boy, "you won't believe what I heard! Satan and the Lord are down at the cemetery dividing up the souls."
The man said, "Beat it kid, can't you see it's hard for me to walk."
When the boy insisted though, the man hobbled slowly to the cemetery.
Standing by the fence they heard, "One for you, one for me. One for you, one for me."
The old man whispered, "Boy, you've been tellin' me the truth. Let's see if we can see the Lord."
Shaking with fear, they peered through the fence, yet were still unable to see anything. The old man and the boy gripped the wrought iron bars of the fence tighter and tighter as they tried to get a glimpse of the Lord.
 
At last they heard, "One for you, one for me. That's all. Now let's to get those nuts by the fence and we'll be done. They say the old man made it back to town a full 5 minutes ahead of the kid on the bike.

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SA Firefighter General / MOVED: Paging Outage
« on: January 28, 2007, 10:12:34 AM »
This topic has been moved to Members Only. On request of someone...

Go here: http://www.safirefighter.com/boards/index.php?topic=1042.0

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Country Fire Service / MOVED: Annoying pagers
« on: January 25, 2007, 11:57:18 PM »

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SA Firefighter General / MOVED: Hypothetical Hazmat
« on: November 13, 2006, 11:01:37 PM »

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SA Firefighter General / URGRES
« on: October 31, 2006, 11:20:07 PM »
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URGRES will soon be here.. they where testing it the other day....

Linc24p mentioned that in the CFS FAQ thread...
Anyone know why they want it?

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OFF Topic / My logged in time...
« on: October 25, 2006, 02:28:43 PM »
I just want people to know that even though this site reports that I've been logged in for 32 days and 20 hours, I haven't actually been on here all that time... I do have a life... :P

I'm not sure why it always reports me as being on-line, but for some reason, if my computer is on, it says I'm on here....

Had to clear that up :D  :-P

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SA Firefighter General / MOVED: MFS - Burn Over Training
« on: October 23, 2006, 02:06:22 PM »

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SA Firefighter General / ESL and CFS money distribution
« on: October 22, 2006, 02:44:15 PM »
Is there an official breakdown somewhere of how the emergency services levy is split up between the services?

Also, does the CFS have some annual report where they detail what money went where, and how it was spent?

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OFF Topic / Cleaning gumtree resin
« on: October 18, 2006, 12:30:45 AM »
Does anyone know of a good way to clean resin (or gum) that drips off gumtrees off a car?

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All Equipment discussion / 'New inventors' warning device
« on: October 07, 2006, 11:26:12 PM »
I was watching the ABC's "New Inventors" program today and saw an invention by a FF from the MFB.  He's made a radio transmitter that can be installed on trucks, and broadcasts a recorded message on all FM and AM channels.  Basically, it sounds a warning signal then says "Give way to approaching emergency vehicle" (or similar).
It reaches about 300M in front of the truck, a little less to the sides, and nothing at the back, so cars with their radios on in front of the truck, and to the sides (like at intersections) will hear the warning, probably well before they hear the siren.

I see it as a great invention maybe not as usefull in country areas, but its a great idea... what do other people think?

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All Equipment discussion / Fire bombers
« on: October 07, 2006, 01:21:20 AM »
Does anyone have a list of what Bombers the CFS has hired for this season, where they will be stationed and what capacity specs they have?

Are there any new, bigger, better, faster ones?

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SA Firefighter General / Sleep and fatigue study of CFS/SES
« on: October 01, 2006, 03:26:20 PM »
I got sent a survey being conducted by 3 students at Uni SA on the effect of CFS and SES on the volunteers' sleep.

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The purpose of distributing this survey throughout the CFS/SES Volunteers is to get an understanding of how paid (regular) work and CFS/SES volunteer work influence subjective sleep, fatigue and performance levels...

Has anyone else received this survey?

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SASES / SES familiarisation thread
« on: September 26, 2006, 05:03:50 PM »
OK, some SES guys and girls on this forum would like the other emergency services to better understand the SES and what they do.
This thread is an opportunity for the SES to talk about what they do, so we can better understand them! (Simple eh?)

So anyone can ask questions, and the SES can answer them... I'll start with a few...


  • How much is the SASES different from the SES in the other states, and what resources do they share?
  • How big is the SASES (how many volunteers, paid staff, units, appliances etc)
  • What courses do the SES run, and offer
  • How are SES units responded to incidents (Do they ever respond in private cars?)
  • What ranks are there within Units, and how can we tell who is senior? (Different coloured helemts?)
  • Do SES Units have specialisations (like the CFS has Rescue, or Hazmat) and how many of these specialised units are there? (eg, SACFS has 34 HAMZAT and 66 RCR brigades, out of 434)
  • What is the average number of calls an SES unit gets in a year (Pip has said over 50% of CFS brigades get less than 20 calls)


Please keep this thread as informative as possible with no put downs or anti-SES comments (I'll edit your posts if you're mean!)...
Thanks

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SA Firefighter General / Legality of pager scanner
« on: September 22, 2006, 01:08:25 PM »
What is the legality of pager and radio scanning?
It is my understanding that it is not illegal to listen to the radios (or read pager messages) but it is illegal to act on them...
Is this right?

For example, (and this would never happen :P), if a group of people were reading pager messages, and found out that their forums were allegedly going to be shut down, would it be legal for them to contact the person they thought the message was to, or from?

 :?

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SA Firefighter General / MOVED: Fire at Pt Lincoln
« on: September 21, 2006, 10:26:26 PM »
This topic has been moved to Incident Operations in an attempt to keep things neat and tidy.

http://www.safirefighter.com/boards/index.php?topic=800.0

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OFF Topic / An inconvenient truth
« on: September 21, 2006, 06:11:44 PM »
I went and saw this movie the other day, and I would highly recommend it... Its not a happy doco, but I'd never quite fully understood what global warming was about, and how serious it is.

In short, if nothing is changed within 50 years, average temperatures will increase a lot.  This will cause an increase in natural disasters (cyclones, hurricanes, flooding and fire), and will also cause the ice caps to melt, raising the earths sea levels by more than 6 metres (drowning many major coastal cities, and creating millions of refugees)..

Not to mention all the extinct species, increase in disease and other such death chaos and destruction...

Has anyone else seen it?

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OFF Topic / strikeathird
« on: September 14, 2006, 08:05:45 PM »
Good to see he's back! (or is it really him? :? )

Welcome back striker!
:)

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All Equipment discussion / Appliance size and height
« on: September 12, 2006, 12:26:34 AM »
The new appliances the CFS is building all seem much bigger than what is already in service... (meaning 34P's compared with 24s and the Canter 14's compared with Utes etc)...
I'm just wondering if any brigades have had trouble with accessing incidents with these trucks... I know if my house caught fire, you wouldn't get a 34 down my driveway, and you'd be running at least 10 lengths of hose if you left the truck parked on the road...  I'm sure that's a common story in the lofty ranges...

Should the CFS also look at having a standard smaller appliance, like the old 12s or Tea tree gully 14, in addition to the bigger ones?

Big trucks:



Big 14:


Smaller 12:


More functional 14:


- Photos from the promo unit website

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Country Fire Service / MOVED: Breaking News-Peter Brock
« on: September 08, 2006, 04:01:47 PM »

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SA Firefighter General / Good natured orange people
« on: September 06, 2006, 06:21:02 PM »
Has anyone else noticed how much filtered the SES cop on these forums, and how good natured the SES members are about it?
I think its quite impressive what they put up with!

Good work boys! (and girls) :D


and this isn't an invitation to try to make them angry.. don't even think about it! :P

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SA Firefighter General / MOVED: fatality
« on: September 05, 2006, 05:17:32 PM »
This topic has been moved to Incident Operations.

http://www.safirefighter.com/boards/index.php?topic=774.0

(just to keep things all neat and tidy) ;)

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SA Firefighter General / What to save
« on: September 03, 2006, 04:16:05 PM »
A question about morals:
A crew of CFS vols arrive in a street as a fire hits it. There are 4 houses on the street, all occupants are not at home.
The houses owners are:

  • An elderly woman who has trouble walking
  • A lawyer
  • A single mother with 3 children
  • A CFS volunteer who is out fighting the fire on another truck





For whatever reason, the crew can only save one house. They save the CFS vols house because he's their mate, (and he would have been at home to defend his own house, if he wasn't out on a truck)...

Should they have saved one of the other houses instead?

(This isn't based on any real life event, I'm just curious ;))

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All Equipment discussion / Auto flow branches
« on: September 03, 2006, 03:00:30 PM »
What are peoples opinions on branches that have automatic flow control compared with ones that have manual flow control?
I personally like the ability to choose my flow rate, and conserve water if needed, or ramp the flowrate up for mopping up...  I can also see benefit in having the right flowrate for the the supplied pressure though....

Has anyone had experience with both types?

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SAAS / SAAS Overload
« on: August 29, 2006, 05:30:49 PM »
Someone mentioned in another thread that the fire service wouldn't ever be responded to a medical case without SAAS attending first.  This made me wonder what  SAAS do when they're overloaded and have too many cases...

For example, if it's a really hot day and old people start having heart attacks...  Would they ever think about responding SAPOL or C/MFS, or would they just respond the next closest Ambulance resource (Even if that's 30 mins away)?

:?

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