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All Equipment discussion / Re: 'Type 2' Pumpers
« on: July 25, 2006, 02:43:18 PM »Why not? You're a damn truck for gods sake!
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Country Fire Service / Re: Sub Brigades (Stations)
« on: July 24, 2006, 02:45:24 PM »
i think another issue that comes to light regarding sub stations is that the appliance/s based in the sub station can sometimes not be looked after as well, as it is off by itself. Therefore things could break, malffunction, go missing and it may be arriving at a job when the problem is noticed.
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Country Fire Service / Re: election time
« on: July 24, 2006, 02:39:39 PM »
name out of the hat is just plain ridiculous, it goes to luck instead of knowledge/suitability etc.
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SA Firefighter General / Re: Where do we draw the line
« on: July 24, 2006, 02:30:39 PM »
oh fair enough
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SA Firefighter General / Re: Where do we draw the line
« on: July 24, 2006, 11:59:21 AM »Obviously each incident needs to be judged on its merits..
People need to be reminded that we are volunteers and do give up our time freely...BUT employers wouldn't be happy to know that you were away from work for 4hrs to retrieve a bogged vehicle..
There was an issue on the weekend...landowner buring old hay and loppings...creating much smoke near township...some complained..SAPOL were going to call us to extinguish..under these circumstances, we have no right to extinguish, it wasn't threatening property or out of control..
Sometimes it's our efficiency and abilities that get us jobs..and it doesn't look good to say ..sorry not in our j&p's ..
I thought you were able to extinguish if the burn posed a threat to public safety (in this case smoke drifting over roads and lowering vision), but i suppose the decision to extinguish is taken job by job.
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ALL Rescue / Re: Australasian Road Crash Rescue Challenge
« on: July 24, 2006, 11:53:52 AM »
From the trade show they were interested in the casuality simulation dummy's and I was interested in some of the products.
man, I was up at STC this weekend and heard it took 3 BA course asistants to move one of the dummies, its that heavy.
and yes, that monitor looks like a penis.
haha, I didn't see a dummy over about 70-80kg... Poor BA assistants need some weight training
na these are dummies they brought up from somewhere, probably the RCR comps. There was only one dummy that required 3 to move it, i think it was more like 95kg.
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SA Firefighter General / Re: Where do we draw the line
« on: July 24, 2006, 09:53:04 AM »
i agree with backburn. Personally, I don't care at all what we jobs we do. I feel that if a person is in a time of need, we're there to help.
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ALL Rescue / Re: Australasian Road Crash Rescue Challenge
« on: July 23, 2006, 11:10:28 PM »
From the trade show they were interested in the casuality simulation dummy's and I was interested in some of the products.
man, I was up at STC this weekend and heard it took 3 BA course asistants to move one of the dummies, its that heavy.
and yes, that monitor looks like a penis.
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Country Fire Service / Re: colours
« on: July 20, 2006, 02:07:57 PM »
sweet. what are you runnin there, 30" s?
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SA Firefighter General / Re: Ammusing pager message.
« on: July 20, 2006, 01:58:31 PM »
silly orange people
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Country Fire Service / Re: colours
« on: July 20, 2006, 01:44:02 PM »Well i have gone all the way, lowered, red, chrome, 24PI should be doing something else
oh, that bitch is dumped, all you need is some spinners and hydraulics and your there!
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Country Fire Service / Re: colours
« on: July 19, 2006, 11:47:16 AM »Not sure if anyone is into Adam Hills the comedian, but he is raising money for an orphanage in Cambodia by selling t-shirts with his catch phrase on it, "GO YOU BIG RED FIRE ENGINE!". Now "Go you big white fire engine" just doesn't have the same ring to it - does itAlso reiterates that the public perception of a fire truck is red.
for a comedian, thats not very funny.
Personally I prefer white, but red would be kinda cool.
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All Equipment discussion / Re: Ordering of PBI Gold
« on: July 18, 2006, 02:05:27 PM »
likewise, I can see some fun being had with the velcro naame tags!
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Country Fire Service / Re: Pride
« on: July 18, 2006, 01:47:36 PM »I don't know if I'd call it wasting his time....
oh yeah was just a figure of speech!
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Country Fire Service / Re: Pagers?
« on: July 17, 2006, 12:09:43 PM »
even though people whinge about the sirens going off, I feel it is an important part of community fire awareness here in the hills, especially during fire season. I feel people will react more effectively to hearing a siren and seeing smoke on a 40 degree day. By all means respond with pagers, but i think maybe sirens should be used for responses to fires and maybe dangerous HAZMATS. Sirens for fires though should probably only be set off DURING FIRE SEASON or on a day where the incident could change rapidly.
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Country Fire Service / Re: Brigade Seniors
« on: July 17, 2006, 11:57:25 AM »
my brigade currently runs with a setup of 1 x captain, 3 x lieutenants, 3 x SFF's. That way there is usually always someone to sit up front and offer capt/looeys assistance if needed. It seems to work fine at the moment.
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Country Fire Service / Re: Pride
« on: July 17, 2006, 11:36:04 AM »
Why waste your time with things like that. We use the simple bucket and sponge with that truck cleaner stuff. Works fine, if a couple of ya do it it takes 20 mins tops. best of all is you only use about 10 litres of water!
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Country Fire Service / Re: Pride
« on: July 15, 2006, 11:58:25 PM »
we just go under the old "if it looks like it needs to be cleaned, we'll clean it" mentality. it works fine.
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SA Firefighter General / Re: awesome link
« on: July 15, 2006, 11:39:35 PM »
saw another decent one on the history channel the other day. It was about the evolution of firefighting in the US of A. not too bad
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SA Firefighter General / Re: awesome link
« on: July 15, 2006, 01:49:41 PM »
That morphett vale vid is excellent. Look forward to the next one!
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SA Firefighter General / Re: Crank - the origin
« on: July 15, 2006, 01:41:10 PM »
it sure sounds as though he does...
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SA Firefighter General / Re: Ammusing pager message.
« on: July 13, 2006, 01:13:59 PM »
probably. I wonder if that was in relation to that big rcr near the border last night?
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Country Fire Service / Re: Where are the foum members located?
« on: July 12, 2006, 11:27:14 PM »
the bottomless pit......