SA Firefighter

Quote from: Pixie on June 06, 2007, 03:25:37 PM

i always laugh when my pager goes off for that one, because it is my school, so i have to leave school, jump on a truck and then respond back to school.

ohh, and they never evacuate when the alarms go off, which is annoying

would have thought your education may be more important than CFS... do you leave school for any call?

If your interested there is a thread set up on peoples professions and how easy it is for people to attend calls from their jobs. I'm a primary school teacher, and I know that if there is enough staff to cover my class I can respond, my Principal figures that we are a part of the community so need to give something back when we can...
(plus I think he lives in my response area, lol  )

Great point about new members becoming experts Blue.
It is so true.
When people find out you are in CFS they expect you have been in it for 10 years +
I recently did a fire extinguisher course for school and instructor had been a met for 10 15 years + i think ,and when he found out I was in CFS he had asumed i had been to all sorts of incidents and been doing it for ages,so kept on referring to me for CFS point of view,
found myself doing the old "smile and nod" routine.
Made me feel important tho!!   

I was just wondering that with the Emergency Services covering such a broad part of society,
What does everyone do for a job?
And how flexible are your employers?
(this is obviously not aimed at those employed by services...)

I'm a Primary School teacher, and I'm ok to go to callouts as long as there is cover.
Obviously my duty of care is to the kids,
But the kids love the fact that i might go racing out for a call...

How many cartoon fire fighters can people think of?
eg. Fireman Sam

and have they all been portrayed as male?

Quite correct Blue,

but in my profession, I just have to know it's wrong, then i tell them to go and look at it in the dictionary

lol...

Hmmm, the mind boggles on possible posts and replies to this one...
Wonder how good the filter is??
lol

Havent stayed there, looks nice tho

haha, dont get the terminology wrong about a truck. someone will jump on you...

 

There were some happy snappers walking round, hopefully some of them make it up here.

Yes we did have a debrief, so the idea of this thread was therefore to give those who werent there an understanding of te logistics of it all and a general discuss for everyone to find out how it went, things that could be improved and things that worked well. Its good to know some stuff thats happening around the state, I would be interested in finding out what other regions are doing along the lines of large scale training operations and also working with other agencies.

Peanut
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Peanut Classification


Peanut (Arachis hypogea)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
 
Division: Magnoliophyta
 
Class: Magnoliopsida
 
Order: Fabales
 
Family: Fabaceae
 
Subfamily: Faboideae
 
Tribe: Aeschynomeneae
 
Genus: Arachis
 
Species: A. hypogaea
 
 
Binomial name
Arachis hypogaea
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The peanut, or groundnut (Arachis hypogaea) is a species in the legume family Fabaceae native to South America. It is an annual herbaceous plant growing to 30 to 50 cm (1 to 1½ feet) tall. The leaves are opposite, pinnate with four leaflets (two opposite pairs; no terminal leaflet), each leaflet 1 to 7 cm (⅜ to 2¾ in) long and 1 to 3 cm (⅜ to 1 inch) broad. The flowers are a typical peaflower in shape, 2 to 4 cm (¾ to 1½ in) across, yellow with reddish veining. After pollination, the fruit develops into a legume 3 to 7 cm (1 to 2 in) long containing 1 to 3 (rarely 4) seeds, which forces its way underground to mature.

Camo asks everyone for pics,
but they are never upto his expert standards

(for evidence of this check out the Compton website and see how many of my photos are posted... 0)

HAHA

my bet is that the calender would be pictures of Camo, or pictures he's taken (or airbrushed himself into... lol)

jk Yellow

Isnt it funny how we can start an argument by looking at a bunch of trucks...
I love the CFS 

thanks for that pip,
what does the curing mean?

Compton 24 is now fully governmental with official blue plates...

is that thelovely wife saying come here you big Compton Pumper you??

lol