Thread: Fires

Managed to get out and help a bit on Tues 9th and Wed 10th for a bit. Starting to get serious. Over 100,000 hectares burnt out now. Rain caused more dramas than help. More lightning storms on the way home last night. 32 odd FESA, DEC staff on hand at presesnt. They are thinking of bringing up the big helitanker today, just to aid in controlling it.

In our area we have had rain, but itwas shaping up to be a bad fire season. Hope they are not too bad over there. I do suggest that joining your local Bush Fire Brigade is very worth while. I am a disability pensioner who is not always mobile, but the NSW RFS [Rural Fire Service] can find jobs for everyone. There are those in wheel chair who are members, and do radio communications for the RFS. So no one can complain theycannot do it, unless they have a much worst problem.

Certainly it is volentary, but volenteers ae needed.

i second jhon f im also in lojistics for the local fire brigade and part of the sc team

There's a pretty big one burning just south of the site I'm on at the moment - has been going for at least three days now and putting out a pretty impressive smoke cloud.

Up here though, we just let them burn unless they're getting close to any infrastructure.

More thunderstorms scheduled for later today - so there's likely to be more fires by tonight. Everything is so dry and the temp is 44 at the moment - it doesn't take much to start the fires off.

Originally Posted by JohnF

In our area we have had rain, but itwas shaping up to be a bad fire season. Hope they are not too bad over there. I do suggest that joining your local Bush Fire Brigade is very worth while. I am a disability pensioner who is not always mobile, but the NSW RFS [Rural Fire Service] can find jobs for everyone. There are those in wheel chair who are members, and do radio communications for the RFS. So no one can complain theycannot do it, unless they have a much worst problem.

Certainly it is volentary, but volenteers ae needed.

John,
I do Emergncy Response for a living in the mining industry, so do all fire fighting, paramedical, vehicle rescue, rope rescue etc full time. Also as part of this we run and maintain the local SES branch and also volunteer with St John. The SES up here do a fair amount of fire fighting as there is no CFS/CFA/BFS. We are also the combat authority for Road Crash Rescue. We as SES are the Support Agency for fire and Combat Authority as St John Ambulance.
I do agree there are jobs for everyone, so all should consider joining.
Cheers
Craig