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SA Firefighter General / Re: Moomba Job
« on: June 08, 2008, 03:06:00 PM »
I would, but dont meet all the requirements, and as I am only on p's, cant get my hr licence any way.
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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: May 27, 2008, 12:13:06 PM »Quote
In your own time please come down to the station to have a look at the entry and exits to the station so you know how to get in for a fire call - SEAFORD STATION CFS Seaford Info
Any one know what this is about. Just curious.
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SA Firefighter General / Re: Ammusing pager message.
« on: May 22, 2008, 08:30:35 PM »Quote
FYI..COMS VAN 2, IS HOME AND ASLEEP AFTER A LONG PLAY DATE AT NOWA REGARDS LT3 CFS R2 Ops Brigade Info
how nice
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SA Firefighter General / Re: Blue cats eyes instead of fire posts
« on: May 07, 2008, 04:49:40 PM »
The only issue that I have is that in a couple of cases, the blue cats eye markers have been placed where a fire plug is supposed to be, but there is no access lid to be found, or the lid is there, but the plug is a good two inches in a different direction to the lid.
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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: April 17, 2008, 06:31:01 PM »
Cool, thanks for the info Andrew. Thats what I thought it must before.
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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: April 17, 2008, 05:33:57 PM »
16:32:09 17-04-08 Member attending the BA Course on the weekend, commencement time 1730 Friday at Wakefield St. 380 approved to take.Regards Trevor SES Noarlunga Info
Any one know anything about this?
Would BA be a requirement for any SES members who do Confined Space Rescue?
Any one know anything about this?
Would BA be a requirement for any SES members who do Confined Space Rescue?
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Women of the Fire Industry / Re: Evolutution, Revolution or Lip Service
« on: March 27, 2008, 04:17:39 PM »I think that it is slowly moving towards equality but there are two main factors that are limiting it. One being the 'boys club' mentality present in many brigades, but thankfully that seems to be slowly fading, and the nature of some women in the emergency services.
As a female firefighter in a brigade of only three females the rest males, I have noticed a boys club. However, I can say that in my brigade, women get treated the same as the guys. There are occassions though that issues have arrised and the brigade has dealt with it.
Sadly I know of too many women, across different services and pay rates, that are more than willing to play the sex card and because those in high places don't want to be seen as sexist (or have discrimination allegations leveled at them) the women are able to get away with it more often then not.They are nicknamed a 'protected species' for a reason unfortunately. The fact you have breasts and a vagina should not mean that you get treated any differently, nor should you expect it.
When I first joined the CFS, I stated, and continue to maintain, that 'Just beacuse my reproductive organs are on the inside, not the outside does not mean I can not do the same job as the males'. I will not accept being treated differently on the grounds that I am a female. I joined to work hard, train hard and HELP MY COMMUNITY!
That said, I do know women who are great with the blokes and are the same as the guys, don't give two hoots about political correctness and are just happy to get along. They realise that they are joining a male dominated arena and act as such.
Gee, numbers, you just described me there.
The only thing that I sometimes find a hindrence in the CFS, is the fact that I am exactly 5foot tall. And then I usually try to work my way around that so that I can still do tasks safely.
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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: March 06, 2008, 06:04:27 PM »
I am not conented with the issue raised in the above post in any way, but from what i can gather, Hiller is not CFS area any way. All previous calls to Hiller have been MFS first off. So the question that should be asked, is why was Dalkeith responded to MFS area in the first place with out MFS going.
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ALL Rescue / Re: Rescuing the rescuers.
« on: January 09, 2008, 08:09:07 PM »In the metro area, I have seen SAAS attend going house fires. I have also seen St John first aid and SAAS to rural fires.
This is to protect by providing medical/1st aid to the volunteers attending the tasking. I understand that only a few CFS volunteers in each brigade have 'senior first aid' certificates, where all SES volunteers should have the qualification.
Is the dispatch of SAAS or St John's resources automatically done to a confirmed structural fires has part of the CFS incident upgrade process ?
What you say about SAAS attending going structure fires is true. I have been to three going structure jobs in my 20 months in the CFS, and we have had SAAS at all three. Not just for any occupant who may need it, but for us fire fighters. The last one I went to, was upgraded before arrival, and as I was in the radio room at the time, after ringing Adelaide fire to upgrade, I rang SAAS to confirm that they had been dispatched to the job for stand by.
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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: January 08, 2008, 01:11:49 PM »
MFS: CHANGE QUARTERS TO STATION 98 MFS Elizabeth 331 Response
UH??? STATION 98, WTF???
UH??? STATION 98, WTF???
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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: January 06, 2008, 11:57:42 AM »MFS: EMERGENCY CALL RECEIVED FROM LOCHABER 34 PORTABLE RADIO. GO, DGO & CAPTAIN CONTACT ADELADIE FIRE IMMEDIATELY. *CFSRES: 06/01/2008 9:31:59 AM CFS Lochaber Response
opps someone pushed the wrong button...
Before that page went out, this one from Southern Fleurieu went.
MFS: EMERGENCY CALL RECEIVED FROM STH FLEURIEU CAR 2. GO, DGO & CAPTAIN CONTACT ADELADIE FIRE IMMEDIATELY. *CFSRES: 06/01/2008 8:39:51 AM
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Country Fire Service / Re: Occurrence books for all!
« on: January 01, 2008, 11:50:33 PM »I believe these occurance books might not been intended for each individual member of the CFS, rather just a single one for appliances. My thoughts on this is that this is a gap-bridging method to record information during the time no one is on the radio on ur Incident talkgroup. simply because of no resource tracking occuring at Region talkgroup level.
in short terms...this highlights we're gonna be on our own in appliances sometimes, with urgent messages having to be sent on region talkgroups anyway. To my understanding this is how MFS operate anyway...with 150 being used for urgent messages during incidents and/or allocated talkgroups.
You should always endever to have someone in your radio room doing comms from the inital point of the incident to log everything that is pertinent and also to answer the phone when senior members of the brigade, ie. lieutenants, captain, or senior ff's may ring in to get an update on their way to the station. Even if that means rolling with four on the truck and leaving the fifth member back at the station, or rolling with five and leaving the sixth behind. You should always have someone there to record stuff, cause, heaven forbid, if the appliance is involved in an accident on the way to a job, you will want it loged in the station book, and who ever is at the station can organise more crew, AND respond the next appropriate brigade.
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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: December 30, 2007, 02:52:13 PM »
F70 WITH THE STATE OF THE CALL TAKING SHE COULD BE DEAD BY THE TIME YOU GET THERE SAAS Fulham
Ummmm, I think someone in SAAS comms dont like some procedures
Ummmm, I think someone in SAAS comms dont like some procedures
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SA Firefighter General / Re: Professions
« on: December 25, 2007, 02:24:54 PM »I am a Chef, Can leave for some calls, not many, people tend to get a little irate if they don't get fed.
So does that mean that prolonged incidents in your group are well catered for with great tasting food??
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Country Fire Service / Re: returning appliances
« on: December 21, 2007, 02:40:27 PM »VHF portables are needed sometimes yes, but since you can talk right up to Divisional commander on them...using them for talk between crew members could/should be done by 40 channel UHF's.
But not all brigades use UHF Zippy. My Brigade, and others that i have worked with in my group do not use UHF, we only use GRN or VHF.
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SASES / Re: Kangaroo Fires Deployment
« on: December 19, 2007, 02:44:09 PM »Actually ive heard they were bought by CFS through the SES, so expect to see another Pod for the Region 3 Pod Truck.
NO not region 3 Pod truck- State Logistics three- based at Brukunga- in a shead at STC.
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SASES / Re: Kangaroo Fires Deployment
« on: December 19, 2007, 02:41:39 PM »Alphaone, you must have been in a different place to me on KI
Pip
I was there on Saturday 8th to Monday 10th. at that point they still had only one female shower. and I saw HEAPS of females there.
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SASES / Re: Kangaroo Fires Deployment
« on: December 18, 2007, 10:46:09 AM »the only gripe i have with the whole deployment was that there was a huge shortage of showers and toilets for the first week. it took a week to get 2 semies of portaloos to the island and there was a whole 6 showers for the men.
Try only ONE for the females, and there was a large contientant of females over there, not only firies, but St Johns, SAAS, SES, Salvos, and I saw a couple of females from SAPOL. It was a nightmare trying to use the shower when there was 10 plus females all needing to use it at the same time- two m inute shower max. We were lined up out the door one morning.
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Country Fire Service / Re: Fire Jobs what a Gas
« on: December 16, 2007, 04:02:06 PM »
A preresiquite for Santos Fire and Emergancy- Moomba- is BA and RAR, Hazmat a nice thing but not an absolute requirement.
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SA Firefighter General / Re: Ammusing pager message.
« on: December 14, 2007, 06:27:18 PM »1919066 20:38:22 13-12-07 MFS: INC # 76 - 13/12/07 20:38,RESPOND Rescue Animal,TRINITY CT,ANDREWS FARM, MAP 41 K 12 ,,CAT IN DRAIN DETAILS AS SUPPLIED BY S/O COLLINS,ELZ331*CFSRES: MFS Elizabeth 331 ResponseNot bad hey, thats in CFS area. I dont see any CFS on that page. The wonders of the mfs comms!
Sounds like the poor kitty was looking for his yarn ball and got stuck trying to get it from the drain
Yes it is CFS area, its dual response between Elizabeth MFS and Dalkeith CFS. It is a regular occurance for those guys not to be responded to their own area by MFS comms.
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Country Fire Service / Re: Current CFS Operations & cameras
« on: December 11, 2007, 01:04:22 PM »
I went to KI on TTG 24 as part off the ParaGum Strike Team, took my camera, got LOTS of pics. when I have sorted through them, I will post them up here, OzFire and Pip, I will send you some of mine for the promo site.
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SA Firefighter General / Re: Is there a WRONG reason to get involved?
« on: December 06, 2007, 08:23:56 PM »I think the wrong reason to get involved is simple......no pay
K99, normally I would not reply to an antigonistic comment like that, but I am gonna make an exception here.
NO PAY is the RIGHT reason to join, it shows you are willing to help those in need cause you want to and you can, not for a filtered pay check. If the only reason you are in the emergancy services is for the pay check, then YOU are the one who has joined for the wrong reason.
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Incident Operations / Re: Statewide fire bans 06/12/2007
« on: December 06, 2007, 08:19:16 PM »Fire in Naracoorte was in one of the area's that the brigade has on its high risk area,good work by naracoorte 34 and pumper saved a couple of house's till back up arrived..I was on pumper and once other appliances where on scene we where sent back into town. This fire could have made a good run into the township or into a area that could have seen us there alot longer....around about 30ac,was lost....
Sounds like a very good safe. Job well done by all crews.
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Country Fire Service / Re: CFS Funding - Council or State
« on: November 26, 2007, 02:14:49 PM »
Since I have only been in the CFS for almost two years, I cant comment on whether the CFS is better of being funded by local councils or the state. However I believe that both systems of funding would have there advantages and disadvantages. I think the biggest issue with the local council funding a brigade or multiple brigades would be how much is the local community willing to support them. Atleast under council funding, brigades would have a better chance of getting appliances that will do what they need it to do, not a one size fits all arrangement. (I dont believe that in a service like the CFS, where circumstances of brigades and groups varries greatly, that a standardised appliance system is neccissarily the best, its just more cost effective.)
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SA Firefighter General / Re: Ammusing pager message.
« on: November 22, 2007, 05:50:55 PM »TO ALL THE MALE MEMBERS OF THE STATION (AND FEMALE IF YOU WISH TO GO THERE) PLEASE DO NOT WALK ON THE NEW TILES IN THE MALE TOILETS, THANKS. CFS Salisbury Info
damn, you beat me to it. My question is, How do you expect them to get to the toliet then?
Floate, maybe??