SA Firefighter

A blonde walks into an ANZ branch in Sydney and asks for the loan officer. She says she's going to Europe on business for two weeks and needs to borrow $5,000. The bank officer says the bank will need some kind of security for the loan, so the blonde hands over the keys to her new Rolls Royce parked on the street in front of the bank. Everything checks out, and the bank agrees to accept the car as collateral for the loan.
The bank's president and it officers all enjoy a good laugh at the blonde for using a $250,000 Rolls as collateral against a $5,000 loan. An employee of the bank then proceeds to drive the Rolls into the bank's underground garage and parks it there. Two weeks later, the blonde returns, repays the $5,000 and the interest, which comes to $15.41. The loan officer says, "Miss, we are very happy to have had your business, and this transaction has worked out very nicely, but we are a little puzzled. While you were away, we checked you out and found that you are a multimillionaire. What puzzles us is, why would you bother to borrow $5,000?"

the blonde replied,
"Where else in sydney can I park my car for two weeks for only $15.41?"

There is nothing stopping an individual wearing a boot that meets or exceeds the current CFS standard... why? show me where it is written that you will wear "x" boot??

Having spent 20 years with the Angaston Group i know how much of a pain it is to get 50% or more of your calls being fixed alarms... But it is still no excuse to send only a car. Having said this, that is not what happened, the next available resource was mobilised..No problem..at all. Is it not better to send a car that is only 2 minutes away to investigate while the next closest brigade is on the way and stop call that brigade and reduce the time they spend on a fixed alarm? As i see it there is no difference in sending a car to this than having a car /GO be first on scene at a wildfire and having an Ops officer / IC on the ground planning before the first truck arrives.

I have used the IRiver T10 / T20 (Its an outdoors MP3 player and voice recorder) operationally and the recording quality is pretty good. The lowest recording setting gave about 36 hours, this level was more than enough to listen back to and take further notes or give to someone to type out the conversations you had. If only half the conversation was recorded eg phone call, my half of the conversation is enough to jog my memory now on what it was about. Just don't forget to say the time occassionally through the recording.

Government has forced Telstra to postpone the closure of CDMA til the end of April 2008... Surprise Surprise.

An interesting area. I used a voice recorder at any incidents i attended as a member of an IMT for my own personal Rs covering. I also took my own notes. I burnt the recording to a CD and filed it. The advise i was given with this was that i could use it for my own personal use, to make extra notes from etc, but it would not be admissable in court unless i specifically stated to a person whom i may interview or discuss plans with was informed of the fact the discussion was being recorded. It was interesting listening back to the incident and being able to review the decisions made and how i performed and how i could do better next time. So if this was the intention of a helmet cam i think it is a great idea if used appropriatley.

It is good to look at these sorts of appliances but no offence to keep up the training and having competent operators of a skyjet would not work in the cfs, cfs do not do enough calls to maintain skills on operators and it would put more pressure on volunteers to regularly train and operate the appliance at jobs.

Mt Gambier have a skyjet to cover the southeast, barossa if anyone was to get a skyjet it would be the retained crew at tanunda, north there are many retained station that could station a skyjet, west coast could go to lincoln or whyalla and a skyjet to mt barker would not take long at all.

CFS need to invest in putting monitors on all their pumpers, the need for a skyjet needs to be looked at, do you want this appliance for rescue capabilities or just firefighting?? what i mean is are you using it for a block of flats or housing or just a few big factories/ shops you may have in your area.

You tool. So you are saying Tanunda retained firies would be more likely to get a skyjet because they would do more training and have more calls to maintain skills???

Tanunda MFS do less than 15 working jobs a year and struggle to get members. The only reason they would get one would be if the UFU / powers that be wanted to put one there for some political reason.

Well after having used BIC couplings for years and thinking how careful you had to be with them and how much maintenance was required compared to the London Round couplings... Now after being in WA for 3 months and using BIC on a mine site. Treat them like crap and they still work fine. The water we use for fire fighting is 9 times saltier than sea water, the clean up water is marginally less than sea water and the couplings are fine. All they get is a squirt of CRC or similar after use. And we don't have a lot of bitumen out here either, so they stand up well in a fairly aggresive environment.

Hicksflat14.... its idiots like you and that sort of stupid ideology that in areas of the state brings the service into disrepute. Pull your head in and start to portray the service in the light that it deserves!

Duty of care..... if you don't have the skills or training to carry out that duty and you stuff up.. even if you are prepared to take responsabilty.. you will be hung and dried.

If they are not owned by FAC.(or the DOD) Most airstrips/airfields are owned by councils around the country. There are very few private strips around(if any) that can land anything much bigger than a cessna.

Ex aviation firey and ex DGO, now Snr ESO in a mine WA.

Its a logistics vehicle. If you need a comand car... get one... call in another groups if yours are all busy or tied up. Its not hard.