SA Firefighter

My own view - there are allot of risks associated with this - we place water in people tanks and they get sick - who is liable??? CFS is, even if our tank were clean, out pump faultless and our hoses for delivery clean, (mmm now show me a brigade or manufacture who will guarantee this) who guarantees the cleanliness of the tank we are putting it into.

Exactly.

Who Pay's For The Water That We Are Using I Don't Think SA Water Would Be 2 Happy About It.

Effectively it could be classed as theft......

And in the end, i wouldn't recommend drink it..... no way of tell how peoples body's will react to the stuff (foam etc). Would be a legal nightmare!

Twas a Map and Nav Course.... Traditionally a very high failure rate (+75%).... The problem was a lot of people walked away from the course feeling quite disheartened.....


The theory was to break the entire course up into 2 modules. 1 for map reading, and the second for field navigation.  The other reason for the idea was for re-accreditation purposes. so you dont have to do the entire course again, and just choose to do the assessment.

Personally if i go to a weekend course, i expect to be asessed on the weekend....

OK... Time for the latest update

The CFS order of PBI has arrived in Aus... and is currently sitting at Wingfield getting "CFS" Printed on the back.....

The $29 maintenance costs include transport, which is to be arranged by LION.....

R1 will hold stock of about 20 Sets as pool stock.....

The gear IS (contry to prior comments) allowed to be used for training....

Maybe SAFECOM might take care of this situation and buy from the same people, so if MFS want 10 pumpers and CFS want 10 pumpers we go to bid for 20 SAFECOM pumpers?

the idea has merit  , just have to wait and see what SAFECOM brings.......

It would be great to see a Scania in a CFS station..... No doubt it would be argued that MFS should be chipping funds for them though, considering that would be the main purpose for having them....

Then you start getting into the debate on having dedicated appliances, and weather they are financially viable to maintain etc..... money has to come from somewhere in the end....

Although I agree that we need to encourage women to join the CFS, we could also say that we need programmes to encourage younger people to join, or older, retired people to help with communications etc...

When trying to get people to join, its hard not to seem as if you are targeting a specific group. Take the last MFS intake, dont know how many of you saw the flier sent to brigades, but it was very "female" orientated. However, had a couple of words been changed in order.... would have been the exact opposite!

I agree, equity is important in anything we do, and should be highly encouraged. The key is attempting not to offended anyone else in the process, or create another minority....

I agree, sounds like it might be a scam. Best off giving them a call though, just to be sure...

sets of gear = seats on truck.... at the moment anyway. Gortex isnt exacty cheap!! 

Was planning on burning it if required........

Appointment is a very dangerous system. Particularly if there is no "maximum term" set, and can potentially lead to a lack of diversity across the ranks.

To say it will always come down to an election...... is a very open ended statement, although i do think that applying for the position to be voted as an adaption to SAAS' method would leave the crew with some feeling that they still have control of their futures...

You cant help but feel a little sorry for some of the farmers who do it though..... Had one yesterday when the guy was happily extinguishing the fire...... untill the inlet hose to the pump melted on the exhaust (cocky unit). Yeah, you could say it was poor maintenance, and i wont disagree, but he was trying to do the right thing.....

Assuming the trainers have the 'train small groups' and preferably 'workplace assessor' there are no problems with running specific modules at brigade level (I think you need to notify your region if looking at getting national competancy recognised). Our group ran a series of "update" sessions, where level 1 trained crew could update to current national standards...... it worked quite well really, and solved the problem of people needing prevent injury - for specialised courses.

Hmm, ~Apply~........I actually like that idea..... pity it wont let me edit the poll to add the option.