First Fire

[fire03rescue]

My first fire (house fire) was in the mid 80's as a cadet. Yes cadet don't go to fires.
We were doing some training on a Sunday morning we had about 6 cadets and 5 seniors. The reason we went to the fire is that  we were just about driving past the job.
We were told stay on the truck and don't move. We came around the corner and could see a stack of black smoke ( I think all us as cadets had eyes popping out of our heads)I think we were told ok set up a hydrant and watch out for traffic. Then stay on the truck,but the job was a

Steam train that has stopped.

[Alan (Big Al)]

Heh heh, we've been called to the train yard at Goolwa a few times for a "going" fire in train carriages yet it's good ol' steamranger puffing away.

[probie_boy]

Finally back on track 

filtered hijackers hijacking my thread, can we charge them with the new anti-terror laws?   :roll:

P_F, You're lucky I don't declare a jihad on you!

hey bra, didn't you pull this off topic yourself???

[PF_]

Yeah, made a thread dedicated to my own call out history :-D

But people can still post their first call out/fire.

[probie_boy]

Yeah, made a thread dedicated to my own call out history :-D

or lack there of! :-D

[CFS_Firey]

or lack there of! :-D

At least he's not ashamed to admit it ;)

[probie_boy]

amen!

[strikeathird]

Weve had the first fire ... What bout the most memorable / exciting ?


Lets get the storys rolling...

[ltdan]

hayshed fire, 300 bales.

fell down through the top of the hay bales where they were on fire.

Pretty good start to a fire career

[probie_boy]

hahaha

still waiting. actually i've had one, not sure if i should put it on the net though...

[PF_]

aw go on probie!

I have had a real memorable call out yet, only had 7.  I guess McLoeds Daughters was cool and my first "real" call going P1 :-D  to an alarm.

[Smallflame]

Fire Fire = Grassfire in a Vinyard, mostly mopping up

First Job = Fixed Alarm, library

[The Assistant]

First Fire = Burnoff Out of Control :x

First Job = Horse stuck in a septic tank (luckily the damn thing got spooked by the siren from the truck and got itself out), bunted around the septic tank and thanksed my lucky stars!!! :-o

[rescue5271]

itdan: what where you doing walking on burning hay????

[medevac]

First Job = Horse stuck in a septic tank (luckily the damn thing got spooked by the siren from the truck and got itself out), bunted around the septic tank and thanksed my lucky stars!!! :-o

possibly part of the reason we dont use sirens to go to animal rescues generally....

[Pipster]

We also had a horse in a septic tank....but it couldn't get out by itself...ended up using old canvas hoses and a backhoe to get it out....

As for first fire - waaayyy too long ago to remember!

[bajdas]

Slightly off topic, but what the heck.... :-P

Pictures of a calf rescued from a concrete dam. http://www.ses.sa.gov.au/aboutses/calf.htm

Interesting that a Larkin frame on a flat bed truck was used.

[rescue5271]

we had a couple of years ago,some cows went into the sewer ponds at the local meatworks....

[PF_]

Thank god IM currently eating a Chicken Schnitzel...  :mrgreen:

[Manuel]

well first incident= tree fire

first fire = Murry bridge December 2005 :|