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SAMFS / Re: Recruitment 2016
« on: September 02, 2017, 11:54:10 AM »
Anybody have any idea how many more squads will be run from the current recruitment process? The third squad starts this month and they are also interviewing more candidates later this month so must be running at least one more squad early 2018...

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SAMFS / Re: Mount Barker MFS
« on: September 02, 2017, 11:51:36 AM »
Believe wheels were in motion to establish retained MFS in Mt Barker this year, but now not happening. Mt Barker will remain CFS for the "foreseeable future" is what I have heard. Couple reasons for this (that I have been told):
1) MFS didn't have enough funds available to build a new station in Mt Barker at this time due to other station replacement projects.
2) Retained MFS would provide no significant improvement in service delivery v's Volunteers as both rely on very similar systems i.e not full time staffing and similar response times.

Believe Mt Barker will soon lose their loan MFS Scanias, but not sure what their appliance line up will look like?

Interesting article in this weeks Courier...

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SAMFS / Re: Recruitment 2016
« on: August 24, 2017, 08:22:13 PM »
Anyone have any understanding of drill squad selection with respect to interview pools?

They are definitely interviewing more candidates in September (number I've heard from an unofficial source is 30). So would it be that the 18 person 4th squad is selected only from this pool of 30 interviewees? Or would they have people identified and left over from the last interview pool(s) that will fill a number of positions in the 4th squad?

I also heard that after the 4th squad in early 2018, that will be the end of this intake and the whole process will start all over again... surely this can't be the case?

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SAMFS / Re: Recruitment 2016
« on: August 18, 2017, 11:31:18 PM »
Quote from: Riseandshine on August 18, 2017, 07:50:19 PM
Interview early April, pat 2 late May, medical first week June, referee checks early July, job offer mid august

Okay thanks. Sounds like there is some more interviews happening in September. Would this be the last of the successful PAT 1 candidates?

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SAMFS / Re: Recruitment 2016
« on: August 17, 2017, 10:01:14 PM »
Quote from: Riseandshine on August 09, 2017, 12:30:28 PM
Just got offered a place in the sept squad starting sept 18. No words to describe how excited I am.

Congratulations Riseandshine. What was the timeline for you in terms of when you did your Interview, Pat 2, Medical etc?

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SAMFS / Re: Recruitment 2016
« on: July 04, 2017, 01:10:05 PM »
Any estimate as to how many candidates have now been through the interview stage?

I believe there was ~180 candidates that passed PAT 1, 50 were interviewed before Christmas and ~130 told they are in the future interview pool. Since then, sounds like there has been an additional two rounds (please correct me if wrong) of interviews carried out? So, mustn't be too many still sitting in the interview pool?

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SAMFS / Mount Barker MFS
« on: November 18, 2016, 06:03:43 PM »
Anyone able to confirm/deny rumour re: recent State Government approval for construction of MFS Station in Mount Barker?

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: June 17, 2015, 07:59:30 PM »
11:13:01   17-06-15   MFS: *CFSRES INC0055 17/06/15 11:12 RESPOND FIRE ALARM, ALARM LEVEL: 1, : @THOMAS FOODS INTERNATIONAL #072/024 000 LAGOON RD MURRAY BRIDGE,MAP:ADL 349 N2,TG 195, ==INPUT DESC - FIP PRODUCTION BUILDING :MBKR34P MBR721 TLEM34P : - CFS Mount Barker Response

11:16:20   17-06-15   MFS: INC #55 - YOU ARE RESPONDING TO ASSIST FOR BA SUPPORT DUE TO MINIMAL CREW IN M/BRIDGE CURRENTLY (PER ACFO BUTTON). STRATEGIC TG-150, CMDTG-195. MBKR34P. - CFS Mount Barker Response

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: December 15, 2014, 07:38:16 PM »
Quote from: Raven on December 15, 2014, 07:36:45 PM
Quote from: CFS_fire32 on December 15, 2014, 07:33:45 PM
14:38:10 15-12-14 ADVISED BY REGION LYNDOCH NOW SET FOR DUAL RESPONSE WITH WILLIAMSTOWN 24P/RESCUE. IMPORTANT READ PAGER MESSAGES RESPOND ONLY RCR INCIDENTS. - CFS Lyndoch Info

Are Williamston having crewing difficulties? If so, good to see a common sense approach. Don't know about the bit about having to receive all response messages associated with Williamstown 24P R - would be quite annoying.

Saw a page a couple of days ago from Lyndoch saying they had some Holmatro gear on loan.

Think that page was regarding servicing. They have had Holmatro Rapid Intervention kit for many years.

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Forum Stuff / Timeout Errors
« on: December 15, 2014, 07:36:41 PM »
Anyone else getting "session timeout" errors when trying to post? Happening quite regularly lately.

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: December 15, 2014, 07:33:45 PM »
14:38:10 15-12-14 ADVISED BY REGION LYNDOCH NOW SET FOR DUAL RESPONSE WITH WILLIAMSTOWN 24P/RESCUE. IMPORTANT READ PAGER MESSAGES RESPOND ONLY RCR INCIDENTS. - CFS Lyndoch Info

Are Williamston having crewing difficulties? If so, good to see a common sense approach. Don't know about the bit about having to receive all response messages associated with Williamstown 24P R - would be quite annoying.

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: October 03, 2014, 07:41:28 PM »
14:29:16   03-10-14   SLSB FYI : R2 COMMANDER AND MINISTER PICCOLO WILL BE IN THE STATION AROUND 11OOHRS TOMORROW FOR A SRT MATTER. NO CREW ARE REQUIRED TO ATTEND. RESPOND AS NORMAL. REGARDS SAL CAPT. - CFS Salisbury Info

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: September 30, 2014, 06:40:39 PM »
15:01:26   30-09-14   SLSB COULD ALL DRIVERS, SCBA AND RCR CREW KEEP FFRS UP TO DATE AND RESPOND WHENEVER POSSIBLE PLEASE. WITH ONGOING TALK OF SECTOR REFORM WE NEED TO KEEP DEFAULTS TO A MINIMUM. SAL CAPT - CFS Salisbury Info

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: September 01, 2014, 02:34:13 PM »
07:21:13 01-09-14 MFS: *CFSRES INC0010 01/09/14 07:20 RESPOND ROAD CRASH RESCUE, ALARM LEVEL: 1, VALLEY VIEW DR/LOWER NORTH EAST RD HIGHBURY,MAP:ADL 96 K11,TG C152 T182, ==2 CAR MVA. 1 PERSON TILL IN CAR :ADL202 PDS229 : - MFS Paradise 221 Response

Paradise now running a pump/rescue? Is that to relinquish some RCR response area from Athelstone CFS and/or ease workload on 204?

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Country Fire Service / Re: ES Reform
« on: July 22, 2014, 04:34:12 PM »
"You are not ranting, but like most people on this forum you appear to want change and are frustrated at the speed in which this is happening (or not happening). If you want to make change then put up a factual WRITTEN case and seek the support of your Brigade, your Group (solidarity in numbers), your Region (get the support of other groups) and put it to CFS."
 
Unfortunately, voicing your concerns with the CFS only falls on deaf ears. And even if the CFS is interested, they don’t have the funding or the resources to do it anyway.
 
The CFS and the entire sector needs a shake-up. So as I said before…
 
The Minister has asked for Volunteer input on the reform process, so put all your ideas and justifications into a structured, factual, well worded format and send them in.
 
We can all whinge about the problems on this forum to the cows come home, but you are preaching to the converted.
 
Unfortunately the impression I got from the Minister was that everything is “hunky dorey” on the ground. He needs to be informed otherwise!

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Country Fire Service / Re: ES Reform
« on: July 17, 2014, 05:06:51 PM »
I think we can agree on one thing, the current system is broken!

Minister has asked for any thoughts/ideas/proposals on how we think the Emergency Services (MFS, CFS, SES) should be structured to be submitted in writing and emailed to...  [email protected]

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Country Fire Service / Re: ES Reform
« on: July 13, 2014, 08:23:18 PM »
Pretty sure Mt Barker did... and they got told to go away and be quiet.

Can't ever see CFS having retained fire-fighters - would be too hard for them.

Moral of the story seems to be 1 Organisation, but still 3 Services. Can't see how this is going to save the $$$ the Government wants.

On a side note... why/what did Lyndoch CFS have to do a 5 year plan for?

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SA Firefighter General / Emergency Service Sector Reform Discussions
« on: June 30, 2014, 08:11:44 PM »
Anyone attended one of these sessions with the Minister yet?

What were the proposals put forward for discussion?

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Country Fire Service / Re: Barker Rescue stepdown???
« on: June 17, 2014, 08:16:51 AM »
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/merger-talks-for-south-australias-emergency-services/story-fni6uo1m-1226956567290

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: June 14, 2014, 09:45:12 AM »
18:26:38 13-06-14 Hi All I have just taken the Onkaparinga SES offline until further notice.= Thanks you for your patients with these issues. Peter - CFS Lobethal Info

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Country Fire Service / Re: Barker Rescue stepdown???
« on: June 04, 2014, 09:06:25 PM »
Quote from: pumprescue on June 04, 2014, 08:09:42 AM
Its ok we will all be one big happy family soon

Consolidation of CFS and SES to a single Volunteer Fire & Rescue Service makes a lot of sense (IMO). More difficult when you try to merge un-paid and paid services into one, but not impossible.

Viability of some country retained MFS stations and some metro SES Units could be questioned.

Anyway, I'll believe it when I see it... similar rumours have been floating around for many years and nothings ever come of them.

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SA Firefighter General / Re: Interesting Fire and Emergency Related Paging
« on: May 30, 2014, 08:13:10 AM »
10:44:31 29-05-14 CFS Volunteer Association Roadshow at Coonawarra Hall 19:30 hours tonight 29/05 . New look Emergency Services. Please be there to provide your input. Brian. - CFS R5 Info

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Country Fire Service / Re: Barker Rescue stepdown???
« on: May 09, 2014, 04:37:52 PM »
Does the proposal involve MFS taking over existing CFS Station or a new station?

Also, what about membership numbers? Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't it 8 members per appliance for a retained MFS station?

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Country Fire Service / Re: Barker Rescue stepdown???
« on: May 06, 2014, 11:04:48 PM »
Quote from: pumprescue on May 06, 2014, 02:31:51 AM
Only time well tell, but you might be onto something

I thought so. Believe the set-up might be retained MFS station, with 2 pumps (1 RCR) plus one of the little ROSA (rural) trucks.

Just what I have heard, and we all know how reliable rumours are......not!!!

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Country Fire Service / Re: Barker Rescue stepdown???
« on: May 05, 2014, 10:06:08 PM »
Quote from: pumprescue on May 05, 2014, 03:28:43 PM
Amen to that, Its time.

Is that what the Mt Barker crew want (to be taken over by MFS)?

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