SA Firefighter

I know up here if we go to a VA we will write on the car emergency service already notified or tape the car up with hazard tape so other motorists hopefully will realise that its all over.

sesroadcrashrescue it sounds like you really need to sit down with he local crews up there and do some serious training together, i am really shocked that any rescue person would be telling an AO how to do there job or to hurry up, all people rescue trained know and accept that a rescue is dictated by the AO's. Also if a patient is being resused in a car i would consider that time critial, and be asking the rescue crew to dismantal that car asap.

Hate to burst your bubble, but volunteers are not considered either full time nor "firies" by professional firefighters.

Whats your definition of firie.

Where was he from? Certain Fire services in Australia do offer both the training required for Cert II and III in Firefighting operations, as well as ranks equivalent to the "trade qualification" of Firefighter. As far as I know, CFS doesn't offer anything such as this.

Correct, they only have about 5-6 courses which can be accredited to the cert II / III, rest have to be done externally.

How little you know, 90% of our job is Medical and thats what i like about it, but when I'm getting paid $50,000 a year more than a MFS firefighter, ill happily put pretend anywhere, i know which job i want. I'll have the cash anyday. 

There are some areas where there is a need for MFS presence where there isn't one now. But I am sure if the Govt tried to put one there there would be filtered. Eg Seaford.

The problem isn't about MFS moving to Seaford, cause this was always going to happen, its the way the process happened when the moved was confirmed thats the problem, hence the whole nature of this forum, lack of communication from HQ/REG.

I'm with you SA Firey, Oxyviva'"s should be on all cfs trucks, not just for the resus side of things but also for O2 therapy in respect to smoke inhalation.

Professional internet crap talker, oh and also an electrician

You are the one and only jono, and we love it.

will be soon!  (just outside seafords.... lol)

you are a tool.

Gets them everytime eh jono, same thing happened when they put the new roundabouts in on the esplanade. Nice avatar mate.
That MVA up here was a fatality, a child was killed, very sad indeed.

I have to agree with 38.  It takes all of 5 seconds to read a couple of lines on your pager..

(Still a heap better than tone only!).. -Although, they had their advantages.

The tone onlys certainly did, like crews not picking and choosing what calls to turn up to, ie get domestic on the pager and everyman and his dog rocksup but get rubbish bin or a job not that exciting and no one rocks up.

Thats an absolute cracker.