Hmm just thought I'd see what was everyone elses opinion..
Did a course with another company where the trainers weren't fireys, coppers or ambos and was twice as good as the ones where u get the fireys just relying on there cfs or mfs titles...
and the company where they weren't fireys were internally trained and worked privately... personally liked alot more cause they weren't bound by any service ideas and called spade a spade...
really annoys me when we get some old firey who has never done something in their life... only done the course again and again but never done... ie rescue stuff from height above 20m...
I'm in an area where we would have to do a rescue well above that... and the trainers we got just said "well you wouldn't really do a rescue from that height... i mean you would have to call the ses or mfs rope teams in" but we don't have the ses or mfs always around do we!!!!
and even worse we had some company say they could bring some american guy over cause he's an expert...!!! then showed some dvd where he flips upside down to do a rescue, then use a mini pulley system... then the trainer stood there and said how it so fantastic (we all wanted to laugh, then realised this was OUR lives we're playing with)
also saw how some berated another filtered on here bout difference between american and australia fireys... and so true!!! if we have trainers bringing americans over to train then WTF! know people who went to their courses privately and they were scared to use the techniques cause it was all throw at them to learn...
Id like to see the trainers see some of the types of rescues we actually do... then write a program to match our needs... and the AQTF (australian quality training framework)
(its sad how we all have confidence in the equipment... but sometimes not the training)
Scared SA Firey