SA Firefighter

Funny thing is if there was no river in the way it would only be only possable less than 1km. If you had the power or pressure Paringa CFS could have stayed on there side of the river and squirted the water straight across.

Haven't had a cat up a tree ours was a bird stuck in a tree. :?

Haven't received anything.

We have never been responded to MVA by SAAS only to fires. The police normally call us if they remember.

Just had a look at the CFA pager site but its not working. Its off air due to leagal action from the Justice department.

http://www.onscene.com.au/

We send out the messages so as the siren goes off as well for the blockies on the tractors.  :-D

I guess we do not have to deal with evidence at any of our fires, MVA I have been doing it all wrong, silly me.

I have been on a few searches also looking for evidence in dumps its not that hard.

I see that both pictures are OK to me. Well CFS_firey no I do not mean that at all my brigade has mostly members under 22. We also have only 2 members in CABA over 44 the other 4 are under 22, my comment was that it should not matter if your Doctor thinks you can do BA with a BMI of over 35 you should be able too. It all ways helps to keep in the younger members the team factor in BA.  My brigade are all OK but there are a few who are not.  Would gladly get Garth's 'Rescue mat' for each brigade or truck in our Group.

Well I'm back now mother nature called had prank call on the fire phone and got kicked off the net.

I am here to stay sorry E that keeps me in all the way.  

I have had a good day fishing and caught a whopping big fish. What you would call a fantastic day. The main thing is yes we need a good medical just like Toast has said please put it in to practice.   :lol: :lol: :-D :-D

Quote from: E on September 24, 2006, 05:08:25 PM
as someone once said "being a fat firefighter is not a good idea. There's always the chance of getting stuck in the circular hole in the ceiling as you attempt to slide down the pole. You could also fall in a heap at the bottom and other firefighters might land on your tummy, causing them to fly back up the pole in trampoline fashion. Even worse, you could be standing at the fire only to have a colleague, mistaking you for a hydrant, put a hose in your mouth."

This statement makes me realize how stupid you really are.
No need to discuss this with you any more. Yes this member has got CABA and his medical problem was a form of cancer.

Well then tell me how the MFS around here have 3 members with a BMI of 37 and yes we have worked that out with them.

lmfao Thank you E that was a wonderfull joke. Quite plane to see you do love big people they stick with you in all your thoughts. I can see a lot of other dangerous things with BA but not as important to some people.  :-D

Good one toast. That is what I have been trying to say all along It should not only be BMI but unfit people as well, I know of a young 18 year old with BMI of 18 has other big medical problems is he better in there than a fat person?

Thats cool say it I am sitting and waiting to read. Have had a wonderfull time talking to you.  :-D

I do not care what age, size, sex,colour,etc just keep an eye on the person who is with you. Its easy to have a ceiling fall around you if you run off on your own. Have seen it and had to carry him back to ambos,one who would not listen to the word stop.

Well I do not like a person who goes of on there own in BA I prefer the one that stays with me and work as a team of 2 not 1.

I am neather old nor young just one that has done a few years in BA and would like to trust my fellow person beside me. We still get the job done.

But still how many members have had a heartattack in CABA?

sorry E but no such luck I can do CABA for another 5 years but our group lost a lot of BA wearers not because they failed but thought they would so did not go for the test. They tried to save the services some money.

A lot of trusted people lost now we have a lot of young gunhoe guys in BA.

Mr or Mrs Fatarse of dying or having heart problems.  Different levels of BA wont work.

Sorry but I take offense to the way you said that. It should be not up to people like you who have a dis like to fat people. It should be up to the people who make it a volunteer services. :x :x :x :x

Just wondering how many members have had a heartattack while in CABA?

No fact say no matter how fit you are you can have a heart defect, so I look at it as you all can have a heartattack. I have known more fit and healthy people with heart problems. We had a person fit and healthy done CABA passed but died with a mass heartattack.

different levels of CABA could be if you are out in the open but a lot of smoke around you can put on BA and not much hard work is needed.

The same thing can be said for Mr, Miss or Mrs Skinny fit and healthy has a heartattack dragging you out.

Oh thats right you wont die they are fit and healthy so all is fine. Yes there needs to be a bench mark for your BMI but also so could we have different levels of CABA wearers.

Quote from: The Assistant on September 18, 2006, 05:16:36 PM
You all need to realise what whinging tools you sound like, and making so many speculations and false statements for really no apparent reason, the BMI rule is a fair rule and it only ever bumps one or two people a year who are not overweight or obese but body builders and the likes. You seem to find the ones that whinge over these matters are the ones that fail the medical. The BMI level has been raised over the years also, and I think you will find that small petite people will be restricted by their doctors (with half a brain) also because carrying 27kg on a small frame can cause serious back problems. slag me if you like but if most of you look deep inside yourselves you know I am right.  

Wow sound like someone is not happy jan.
You will see that the army use it but put you on the scale in undies not fully clothed like the Doctors.

You could monitor the callout or other things they do so no one will rip the goverment off say a swip card to show who turns up all the time.

Safety??????  Why is it that only South Australia is the only ones to use this way of justifying the BMI. When I spoke to a Doctor about the BMI he said CFS use the out of date way of checking the BMI it is Bogus.

We have had a few problems with the hight need to trim a few trees to get to the fires. It is a long way to fall as well.

The Group I am in lost 20 members due for re-accreditation for CABA out of that there was 10 that had hazmat as well all where able to do the job until the new medical came in. Now our group struggles to get enough BA operators. We also lost about 5 members over them loosing it.

In Renmark its SES and MFS, not SES and CFS

I saw we had a voice outage for 3hrs the other day on the pager sit but we did not get any information from the Group Officer this was the same time we had 6 cllouts in 4 days

Just had our siren fixed and had the grey box on the wall fixed    they found the neutral wire connected wrong, so we now will not burn out any more panels.