SA Firefighter

Air horns are great to get attention heading into an intersection, round about or towards traffic lights.

these days with airconditioned cars fitted with nice radios, cd players, mp3 players, I think better lights would be better - i.e. head light flashers on high beam, more forward facing lights at rear vision mirror level!!!!!!!!!!

Also better at night, theres nothing worse than cruising through suburbia at night with the sirens going waking every man and their dog - not only is it annoying for the crews but does not serve to do mush other than wake the entire neighborhood up and them a little annoyed!

Much easier to justify a pumper for Murray bridge than for Sailsbury or Burnside!

At least Murray Bridge have large and expanding industry in their primary response area for which they are responsible! Their urban/industrial risks are increasing.

Interest thought, that we would put in a pumper primarily on the basis of supporting MFS - I guess they will be paying for it due to their inability to meet their communities requirements can the constant calls to CFS to provide that service!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thankfully some appliances have been spared from the CFS graveyard, for a while!

Mmmm - pond slime green!

had the uniform supplied as an office - wore it maybe twice in 5 years - now have a nice blue shirt with the star on, looks far better and is less threatening in public, yet very dressy and corporate!

Plus looks good with the photo ID and CFS lanyard!

Hopefully, if it does happen there will be a very strong westerly behid it - then it can blow through into Victoria and hit their abrren scare from the Big desert fire a few year back!  far better than it blowing out into grazing and croppojg country!

Better still why chase it, monitor, watch and then protect the park boundaries!

The incident was belived to have been caused by spontaneous combustion, in feed pellets. The incident was two fold, first the initial fire fighting to try and smother the smoultering fire and secondly the fire fight after the exlosion that injured a number of fire fighters and the ships crew - from memory.

CFS crews were regulary changed as the same appliances did stints of up to four days from memory, running to all of the normal jobs that MFS would have.

Nice to see the change of quarters (CoQ) principles are still there - the big difference today is that we are far better trained and equiped than we were then and CoQ isn't such a big deal - it just happenms

Good call Firefighter_SA.

CFS is a diverse group of people, covering diverse areas, with varying populations.

Interesting though, I sure many of our non urban interface brigades are used to driving an hour or more to get to a job and then in summer will spend at least 12 hours there (yes outside SOP direction) before returning home - yet I know many urban interface brigades are looking for relief crews within 4 - 6 hours.

Horses for courses!

At the ed of the day we all provide the same service, just our communities differ greatly. Nice to get a truck out the door when you are surrounded by 5,000 - 20,000 to choose from, not so easy when you are surrounded by 500 to 2,000.

Hey Blinky isnt the first biggy of fire season usually Ngarkat

Ahhh...... bring on that lightning!

Then the fun and games between R3 and R5 can begin, again, for another year!!!!!!!!!!

Gents - welcome to the reality that the rest of this HUGE state faces every year! Nice to see the SE joining the rest of SA!

Fear not though, a lot of areas of the state have had below avaerage rain fall for a few years now! Thankfully the community acknowledges this and does their part - more focused fire prevention and planning - maybe it may just be a little earlier for the SE this year 

Is that the old one - CFA produced many years ago, or have they up dated it!

Interesting to se that many of us see response driving as an issue, yet corporately we can't look across the boarder and use what they have - as a starting point!

easy tiger!

Wearing cherons on your polo also shows commitment to the community and they can see you have done something special and are a well dedicated member with chevrons on the shirt.  You have been drinking too much red cordial buddy 

Sorry Lion Heart to offend - but do you really think that Mr Average down the street knows or even gives a toss what we have sewn or applicated onto our polo shirts! IF our community was interested, I believe we would see this in their support, not in their acknowledgment of what we wear!

Fully sick mate!

Yes, I too have always dreamed of turning my CFS polo shirt, T-shirt and alike into boy scout shirts, with badges from one side to the other!

The pride I wear is my PPE/C - it shows my commitment to my comunity, my service and my dedication!

Interesting thought M. FIRE S.!

The struggle between paid - therefore the assuming (making donkey of you and me) that they should respond and deal with and volunteer who are appropriately trained!

Interesting to note - the recent industrial rescues, major building colapses/explosions etc in Adelaide have been undertaken by SES, with MFS on site to provide fire cover etc.

Redefining of roles and responsabilities is a sound thing and starts to address duplication of services - maybe this is the start of services focusing on their areas of expertise - not trying to be jacks of all trades and masters of none!