SA Firefighter

What about the fact that QLD will need crews for a sustaind period of time.  SO sending small contingents will mean that we can offer help for a longer period and each deployment ony has 30 mouths to feed and beds to find rather than 1 lot of 100 or so.

Also it enables vollies to arrange time off work more as they could fesably be asked to deploy in 8 days time which allows them to sort out their SA jobs etc..

Still it is a lot of water.

I think the problem doesn;t lie with the group officers in terms of making the right descions.

but the link between the GO and the captains then the brigade members on the way down the chain.......

What is your number 1 issue you want fixed?

How many of you regularly attend CFSVA meetings?

This is a good thread, i am not in and emergency service in a paid role and i kinda get the dream of not wanting a dull job and doing cool stuff etc. Remember it isn't so much about what you are doing ( that  does count) but who you work with. Also every job has its bad/boring bits and SAAS/MFS... .will be no different.

ALEX, its good to use SOP'S but we still need to get more information out of the caller,They may report a fire being south or east when in fact its north and over 40kms away..I know its hard to drag information out of callers but when you have a hwy that spans some 300 or so Kms does make life hard.....


Dont get me wrong SOP'S have there place .....

Sometimes Callers are jsut plain Wrong. But still If the domestic fire is street A or street B whats the diffrence excepte maybe a BWC.

We hope for a 2 stacion and hence 2 appliance response but sometimes Alerts will change this and more often than no XXX42 will result in all the kings men.

I saw the trailier at the show and it had a brilliant setup to prepare for bushfires, but I was highly dissapointes by the complete abscence of anything to mention all the other work we do.

Bill it's not like there is a shortage of wheat atm

ECP=?

Interesting point, I am one to err on the side of lets sent to many than too few and would rather arrive to find a smoke in area that is really a substantial fire with more resources.  So is there anything wrong with that?

And the Number of incident types? well If the type "smoke alarm" existed what would you think is an appropriate response? If it is working that could be anything from toast to a going fire so how would you write a response SOP? (yes i do acknowledge that in as all these responses are not alarms the caller may have noticed flames etc but lets ignore that atm)

About breaching pieces. If you run 2 64mm into a Y then have 1 64 coming out the other side can someone with more knowledge of hydraulics tell em if you get more water out? Or are you still just trying to put an elephant through a car door?

than one appliance to a Vehicle Fire? C'MON GUYS... Learn to fight fire!

I assume you are talking about fighting the fire rather than the response SOP? if so yea i agree

ok

Well we just Got a new 34p and really like it yes i'll give you that the pump panel and valves are a bit awkward but and the 65mm hoses are a bit squashed and not enough hose  space in general but we can re arrange a few things, yes it would be full with RCR gear. But it is a very Good truck

Bundy? do you get the infralog and are you sending Decent letters to Mr Tindall? I have heard him say many times bot him person and email to send in ideas to I&L. it will work better than here.

Should we really base our trucks on having to boost large multi story buildings? this happens maybe once in 6 years at my count (for CFS)

What is wrong with building CFS appliances so that at a large job each truck runs at a max 2 38mm or 1 64mm? if it is that huge you will want the crews so the trucks will be there any how. also I don;t think SA has many large mains to support the huge pumps. the recent Plastics fire and pool shop fire both had water issues at the main irrelevant of the pump size.

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