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« on: May 29, 2011, 05:54:06 PM »
Volunteers meeting a required percentage for Call Outs & Training?
This is the question I ask, personally I think all operational fire fighters in the CFS should meet 1/3 of all call outs and training. Maybe something similar to what the retained MFS fire fighters have to meet whatever that maybe.
The reason I make this statement at some brigades fire fighters are lapse at their commitment to their brigades and if they dont attend training and call outs regularly how are they possibly maintaining a competent skill level, learning new skills and keeping up to speed with operational changes. You can spend ages training but rolling down the street to the real thing does anything else compare?
With what the service is expected to provide to the community now days and all the skill levels required to be maintained should we expect something like this? Should bridage Captains have the power to enforce such an idea?