Thread: Not going to be a good fire season

Originally Posted by Treads

We're up to 8 uncontained fires on the NSW Northern Region now. I have a feeling the Tenterfield ones might be declared S44 in the morning

We are manning the station most days, it's nice to have quite a few uni student types in the Brigade here. We've averaged 7 calls a week in the last few weeks, starting to wear thin for us volo's

I'm having an early night and hoping that the evil little black beeping thing on my bedside table stays silent tonight....

yeh I know what you mean....though we do not have that little black evil beeping thing here anymore..well they really have to be desparate to call us out at our age now....but if need be we will respond



keep up the good work


Mrs ho har

Originally Posted by Mud_Bogger6

We have a few young ones in our shed, guys my age are joining up now, and our basic firefighter course is next month so we'll be heading into the season prepared

You will enjoy the mate ship that comes with Volunteering...keep up the good work and most of all ENJOY


Mrs ho har

Will do,

Just to contrast this thread a bit....

with the strong winds here we (CFS) got called out last night to a....
houseboat sinking....

he was tied up and the wind was blowing water into an unsealed top (no gasket or rubber??) on his pontoon.. so he moved that side against the bank and ...guess what??... same thing started happening other side!!

We had it winched and tied to a gumtree (thats desperate in these times) and a crane on way!!.. pumped out both pontoons and then as the houseboat is set up to travel with a car on the front (but was in a position where a car couldnt be put on at the time) we realised the back sat low to allow for the weight of the expected car... (@ 2" clearance to top of pontoon!) so the solution we came up with???

we grabbed his tinnie, reversed the bung (so it was inside) and then put it on front deck and filled with water!

I loved the idea of filling in the paperwork explaining we had saved a sinking houseboat by grabbing another boat and putting it on top and filling with water.... people will be scratching their heads!!!


as for the fires, we have been told (cfs fire investigators) down here to make sure the kits for investigations are ready as the "war" will probably start early this year on the "bugs"

as for payment or not???
hey, the friendships, the feeling of doing good, the fact you can hold your head up and say "hey we've done our bit", isnt that payment enough...

and as already said, part of a community doesnt mean you live in it, it means you are PART of it...

cheers
digger
(ps is there a new trend of people wearing PPE for avatars now??)

That report'd have som questions floating around afterwards lol

(I'm proud of my unfasionalble overalls, and how much i've acheived in 'em, i say smoke 'em if you got 'em)

Good onya guys you do a brilliant, outstanding, commendable job and you should be well proud of yourselves, i might see if i can do the fire fighting course for the prison off the back of what you guys have written

Lardy,

Cadell training centre (CTC) (just down road from here) is a minimum sec prison...(more like a fenceless farm but that is another matter!!) they have a CFS unit based at the prison and all who want are put through the new Basic Fire Fighters Course (BFF1) and I believe other additional courses like Road Crash Rescue , structure fires etc... obviously they also do first aid course...

They then, when a unit is required, fold 8 blokes onto a truck, (2 screws) and away they go, they also help with searches etc when required, hardly ever winge and best of all, apparently the retetion rate when they "graduate" their accomodation is quite good!!..

Best bit, always blokes on hand ready to go no matter what the time or conditions are _change being as good as a holiday- always sober (well 99% of the time!!) respond well to orders... (always good in a volly!).. fed housed, trained and 'maintained' by the system...

May be worth checking them out for inspiration! (and a precendent to use as example)


MudBogger,
Mate, no bagging you or in fact any volly, Ive got both an Orange set and a yellow set of PPE, and I think Ive made a full set as I have the old green (no longer do st johns) ones and obviously blue ones..... MMM I wonder what Id look like in.....red??? (thats for Xmas-time I hope!!)

but doesnt matter what people volly for, could be admin, logistics, radio op, "Chief shed warmer!" or service clubs like lions, cwa, rotary or apex (and there are heaps more) so long as you dip your oar in and push the "boat" in the right direction... who cares what anyone else says!--but drag ya mates kicking and screaming if you have to, its amazing how many will stay on...and every pair of hands helps!

Good on ya I say!!

digger

They had 35 fires along an section of country road just north of here Monday.....turns out that some mindless git was going along behind the Rural Firefighters and re-lighting many of them after QFRS had moved onto the next fire............