SA Firefighter

my opinion of this eh....

well.. whats the point in MFS paging out your brigad if most of your fire calls are sent directly to your alerts system by triple zero diversions?? presumably most of these calls that went to MFS for  your area would have been such things as SAAS or SAPOL or security companies passing details to the wrong service.. and all calls that went straight to your alerts would be people dialling triple zero and asking for fire, whilst in your area.. (if that makes sense mate)

its good that MFS can page most brigades and obviosuly would be great if they could page you rather than "wasting" time calling your alerts and then that call going through SHQ...

but thats the syste atm i guess...

negative...

diaphragm pumps, rotary vane pumps and ejector pumps are a few....
not entriely sure which ones are available as electric...
*refer to Unit 6: Pumps and Basic Pumping Operations (BFF1)

Yep, we were told, if you don't attend and get signed off, your not riding the truck!

good stuff i think.

just as good... but more timely.

Its been a few years now since a large number of us have been wearing our structural helmets 24/7 365 days a year,

no other option for my brigade... or my whole group for that fact..

i know theres too much crap already..

but perhaps, from a saftey point of view, it shud become like everyones level 1!!

entrapment/burnover shud become an accredited unit, that everyone must be trained in before they get a pager and ride the trucks to calls...

a little stupid??? lol

i always thought the people wearing there yellows onto the plane looked like d/heads when there was news coverage, and its gotta be damm uncomfortable.

im pretty sure almost everyone in the cfs has at some stage been either given a shirt or gone out and bought one, just where soemthign that identifies you as a part of the CFS...

I never heard about it....

only found out about the new logo when i rocked up to the station and our GO was there with a heat gun stripping the old ones off and putting on the crap ones...

lets see if it makes it to every firefighter

we train mondays....

but hey when i sy train, i mean we have a meeting once a month, dont train on public holidays, and even when we do train that could mean we only go for a drive for a while, or bowl a hose and roll it up.. very rarely dfo we actually do anything useful...

sometimes i get the impression that i am the only one in the brigade that actuallsy gives a rats... 

have not heard of any actual CFS training courses for entrapment procedures (other than BA type stuff)