SA Firefighter

Yeah, nice post blue,
can i pick up on a point you said about fundraising being frowned upon.
let me relay a story:

I have a friend who was involved with a cfs brigade. This brigade was situated at a location where an election poling booth was on the some property. A couple of people in this brigade thought that it would be a great idea for a bit of exposure for the brigade and a chance to do some fundraising to do a sausage sizzle, or just sit with a collection can and chat to some locals, being where they were the booth was located, most of the people would be at some stage linked to the brigade. A phone call was made to made to someone high up within the group, and a quite firm no was given because "this is not the sort of things that we wish our brigades to be seen to be doing".
What, you don't want your brigades to be seen to be involved with the community and raising its profile by interacting with members of teh community who will meet members as actual people, or may not even know they exist?? like come on...
And it turns out it wouldnt have been financially gainful for them because any money raised would have gone into group coffers anyways. This was one of the reasons that not much fundraising was done, because the brigade would end up not seeing the money anyway.

Can i stress for those that know me, that this story isnt mine, and wasn't any of the brigades that i have been affiliated with. And my comment at the start, was actually a friend, and not like saying to a doctor "i have a friend who..."

Is this talk about lycra PBI and body image leading back to a thread we had mid way through last year about members reaching a certain physical benchmark, and receiving membership discounts at gyms etc

Although on the topic of discounts, i walked into maccas new years day in CFS polo and the lovely young girl behind the counter gave me half prce maccas.    i'm lovin that, but cant say it works everytime, cos four of us called into makes on the way home from a house fire one morning covered in smoke, and not a  hint of a discount...
was definitiely worth the try tho...
(talk about off topic...)

On the issue of correct PPE I hear that Photoshop works wonders with making members seem to be wearing gloves and other items (spot the pic of the photoshopped volly in the volunteer mag...)

nah just kidding for those who went and grabbed it. lol. but im sure it has been done

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1909191 21:06:31 23-01-08 MFS: INC # 70 - 23/01/08 21:06,RESPOND RCR,PARACOMBE RD,PARACOMBE, MAP 98 A 5 ,,NEAR FIRE STATION IN CREEK,TTGY19 PARC00*CFSRES:

funny spot to park?? maybe he was looking for the gully hotel...........

there's a fire station in a creek??

Since the change over of brigade numbers to the new name/appliance info
(eg. at the end of the page instead of 50461, it nows says mrph00)

has anyone noticed any funny ones?
its probably gonna be a short conversation,
I always get a laugh out of COMP00

 

oh dear 

lol

Blue, In regards to your post earlier about what speed can emergency services vehicles travel through roadworks (even though we have discussed this personally thought i would post here for others!!. I will use school crossings as an example because they are are similar to roadworks. i was informed recently by a policeman who came to school for road traffic training for my students that emergency service vehicles travelling P1 (lights and sirens) are exempt from all standard road laws except driving with undue care. so watch out because the little kiddies with the lollipops are trained (and do) write down number plates and all other relevant details of people not driving properly through crossings and forward onto police.

This is really a catch 22 situation as speeding through a school crossing is generally driving with undue care.

And also someone may be able to correct me, but i believe that standard SOP's instruct MFS/CFS drivers to adhere where possible to speed limiting??

So let me know if any of these details are wrong anyone, but thats what ive been told by police.

Here is a different version of the one you were talkin bout blue. Not a bad little effort, but could be better...

http://www.youtube.com/v/2EK9bL3XX7M

hope thats the url, if its not, ill edit it at some stage.

1909007 16:16:46 19-08-07 UPST: FROM CAPT: SNAG SIZZLE FOR TEA TOMORROW NIGHT PRIOR TO TRAINING STARTING AT 1800HRS. LPG TRAINING WILL COMMENCE AT 1900HRS. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU ATTEND AT THIS TIME INSTEAD AT 1930HRS. 19/08/2007

LPG training and BBQ? someone is not confident of their crews ability to use a gas cylinder...

Not a page, but funny still
Girl on Totally Wild was talking about dry fire fighting techniques (Victoria)
She walking talking about her PPE and said that it was fire proof cos it was coated with propane

LOL

Think she may have been nervous and meant Proban......     

i thought they were off to the ambulance station and not the hospital blue??

yeah i fully agree,
i read the post as meaning he was a teacher leaving school,
but i can see now how it could also be a student leaving (and it more than likely is)

contact me if you want some stuff for your course kenny
managed to scrape through with First Class Honours, so may be able to find something of use for you...
seriously though, the kids in your class will love the fact your a fire fighter, and there is so much you can integrate it with when you are teaching/doing prac