SA Firefighter

the "pics" are just white squares for me, no photos...

works now I'm at home! must be the vagaries of the proxied/filtered-to-buggery internet connection at my work.

Stirling 90
Aldgate 88
Bridgewater 89
Upper Sturt 84
Piccadilly 75
Bradbury 86

And Mylor and Ironbank have 85/87 but I can't remember which is which.

Ironbank 85
Mylor 87
Burnside 29

If you have read everything on the forum or have clicked "mark all read" Then when you go to show all unread posts it will say no messages, all are marked as read.

To see your private messages click the link near your user name in the login form.

I hope this makes sense.....

yes it does, however I haven't clicked "mark all read" and I know I haven't read every post as there are whole threads I haven't read (like the word association one) since very early in the thread when I decided it was of no interest to me.

there appears to be a confusing double use of the word "messages", ie. one use is referring to private messages but another use is sometimes referring to posts or topics.

no it's no different.  However it when it says "no messages" I'm wondering if it's just bad wording and should say "no posts" as it appears under "unread topics", but the way it says "no messages" implies it's referring to personal messages.  Got what I mean...

The great thing, is it shows how uneducated people are in CFS and how little "real" information is distributed below GO or Captains in CFS.

maybe the GO/Capts do distribute said information but it doesn't sink in?  Isn't there an expression about those who talk (or "type" in this case) the most do the least listening? (if not there should be!)

Luckily he had some sheet music with him

Yes, maybe I am a bit of a pioneer..I was the first & only female Capt on EP...but I can only do it with the confidence and backing of my peers! 

well done. Only "problem" perhaps is your brigade then needs a new captain! (lots of brigades don't seem to do the sucession planning thing very well - not that I'm saying yours is like that).

and if you want a good URL for your website instead of something like "http://cybercitizen.egn.com.au/aldbchcfs/" then see here: http://www.sacfs.org/

actually robert 14s and QAVs are differant....
a 14 carries 1000L of water, where as a QAV could carry any amount.... (to a degree )

a 14 nominally carries 1000L of water, there is plenty around with only around 600-800L and then there's the national parks ones with as little as 400L, eg.
http://www.fire-brigade.asn.au/Station_Display.asp?Service_Code=NPWSA&Station_Code=NPST

So, the Pumper will run one 38mm line (2xBA) inside to the bottom story for a VERY quick primary search, one 34 will gain access (2xBA+1x38mm) [....]

I noticed a couple of you said the BA guys take a 38mm line in with them.  Wouldn't a 25mm be sufficient and easier to carry/manhandle?

I think the issue with Burnside Car 1 was that it was sinking, with crew on board, and the group control centre wouldn't respond any help to them because they said CFS trucks weren't allowed to tow... We can tell the service has turned to S*^*7 when we're not even allowed to rescue our fellow firefighters..

2 points:
1) the group base does not make the decisions just passes them on from the incident controller / operations officer.
2) that incident with burnside car 1 during the floods was a little more complicated than has been written here, there were good reasons why that decision that was made (obviously!).

regarding towing, I think some of you need to read the rules a bit more carefully, it doesn't say "no towing" fullstop.  Towing someone's private car with an appliance is a lot more dodgy than towing another appliance on the fireground, for example.

well i guess the whinge is about him getting 4 votes and 4 votes going to (new GO ). Same happend last group election.

voting is not that simple, each candidate is supposed to be knocked out one by one leaving a "winner".  That's how our group election was done as chaired by the RC.

PS. sometimes I think some of things posted here about specific people are pretty borderline.

It has always been tankers and if you go changing the name to BWC then other CFS affiliated services ...

it's already happened, about a year ago or thereabouts.