SA Firefighter

I love getting paid to attend fire calls. Why the filtered would you do it for free.

HAHA Your funny!

Quote from: Crank on September 08, 2007, 08:53:06 PM

Quote from: rescue5271 on September 08, 2007, 04:11:48 PM

Nice looking appliance but not good for a running grass fire..........

Why not?  Not alot of difference by comparison.

I think he was referring to the lack of crew deck...

How much room do you want?

Better send the CFS CO & MFS CO just incase their are any ema issues as well.

Dont forget SAAS, SAPOL & SES....im sure we could use them somewhere

Well Done!   

I would of thought a Fire Fighter be they paid or vollie or retained.

aka someone who puts out fires!   


Those that work on red trucks know the saying "its gotta be red"  (red rooster commercial)

Crank, tell me, are all SACFS personel rescue, CABA and Hazmat trained... no.

You werent talking about quantity trained.  you were talking about quality.

I was referring to training and in your last comment you were referring to quality of crew.

You Said "In terms of response times, appliance capabilities, training and quality of crew, CFS can simply not compete with SAMFS for Urban response."

Ive got no beef with MFS taking over if thats what is required to provide an adequate service to the community as that is why we are all here.

What we need to establish is a serviceable median between paid and volunteer station.  As it has been said we can not afford to have paid stations all over the place but there also needs to be a point at which the work load is to big for the vollies and maybe too much risk.  The CFS can provide an urban service as good as MFS but not with our current appliances.

If Mt Barker is at that stage then i dont see why a full time service should not be implemented.  But why cant vollies and paid staff work out of one station?  As it is not feasible to completely disband Mt Barker CFS and replace them with one or two MFS appliances.

There is alot of useful info on that site.

Just looking through Adelaide's data for august....they have had 16.6mm of rain and 24mm of that evaporated!

Interesting to note in the last 1/2 month all soil dryness indicators have risen.


So it would seem although some of us are having reasonable rainfall we are losing quite a bit in evaporation

If the brigades were acting under the direction of the council officer then they have done the right thing.  They have reported it to the Fire Service so obviously its under their direction that they want it extinguished.

Hi Crank,
Interesting.. Cant say i envy you with such an issue in your brigade. I cant really shed any light on what to do, Although the other people on here have probably covered the correct way to go about stoof, i just wonder if getting the region and people outside the brigade in is going to have longer term repercussions, possibly towards your self.. While i dont think going against SOP's etc should be condoned, experience which im sure your captain has a bit of, can sometimes give a view as to the faults in SOP's. before you all get on your high horse about it, have a look at the 'wearing of helmets' thread where many of you state that you wear structural helmets all the time for the added protection (so do i infact), remember back to when that was a BIG no no, and would leand to you being thrown off the fire ground supposedly! I suppose what im getting at is that if you look at everyhting with your BFF1 glasses on, having done BFF1 by the 'book' then you may perhaps shake your head at how things are done in real life, but with a bit of experience you realise that the 'book' doesnt put fires out, although be it on your (or in this case your captains head) if something goes wrong...

I understand what your saying...its not practical doing everything by the book but it cases like wearing PPE thats a given.

Id be glad to take it to the GO etc but as you say it can have long term effects on the brigade and/or myself.

Thanks for your assistance

Hello All,

Im new here.  i was referred here as i was told it can be a useful tool to solve problems.

anyway.

Our brigade Captain continually ignores S.O.P's and quite often doesnt where his PPE which sometimes puts his life in danger and makes the cfs look bad.

What can we do?