Good natured orange people

[CFS_Firey]

Has anyone else noticed how much filtered the SES cop on these forums, and how good natured the SES members are about it?
I think its quite impressive what they put up with!

Good work boys! (and girls)


and this isn't an invitation to try to make them angry.. don't even think about it!

[Manuel]

yea i am surprised how much scheiße the carrots get, they do a great job , we should be thankful for them, as they do all the boring jobs

[firetruck]

yeah, the tree service are good.

[bajdas]

Personally, some Units do act like a 'Dad's Army' type organisation. Many years ago we definitely was a dis-organised bunch. So the some of the comments are true.

But you can only improve, educate that things have and are changing. Some of the Units are really professional.

Personally I believe the roles of CFS, MFS and SES are changing dramatically. This change is still being defined by paid staff in all organisation before it fully affects volunteers.

SES currently have an opportunity to provide more serious rescue response to South Australia. Some sections are taking the opportunity, some are fighting politics.

But we all provide some form of rescue response. No problems with any emergency service being the first-responder, but SES do specialised training.

Please dont be threatened when we turn up, we are just trying to assist the victim, not takeover your patch.

Sometimes I think some of the things written in this forum are because people feel threatened. We are not going to disappear....

We are volunteers as well & would prefer to work as a combined team to get the best result for the victim.

[Toast]

But we all provide some form of rescue response. No problems with any emergency service being the first-responder, but SES do specialised training.

Don't both Rescue services undergo specialised training?

[bajdas]

True, but the new equipment that SES have or on order includes debris pile search cameras, shoring tools, cutting tools, confined space & vertical rescue equipment. This is all part of the new USAR capability.

In addition the new courses include land search, night navigation, RCR, Air Observer, etc.

Some units have specialised so we now have search dogs, horses, quad bikes, trail bikes, mountain bikes, new vehicles (Toyota 4.2turbo diesel, F250, trucks, etc) as well as a pool of people.

My personal belief is that in the next few years the emergency services will be a closer organisation. If it will be like a Queensland & Western Australia setup, or similar to Victoria I do not know.

But until then, please recognise that we have and are changing. At the end of the change process hopefully we will be alot better than when I started 25 years ago.

My personal belief & opinion only.

[Toast]

True, but the new equipment that SES have or on order includes debris pile search cameras, shoring tools, cutting tools, confined space & vertical rescue equipment. This is all part of the new USAR capability.

In addition the new courses include land search, night navigation, RCR, Air Observer, etc.

Some units have specialised so we now have search dogs, horses, quad bikes, trail bikes, mountain bikes, new vehicles (Toyota 4.2turbo diesel, F250, trucks, etc) as well as a pool of people.

My personal belief is that in the next few years the emergency services will be a closer organisation. If it will be like a Queensland & Western Australia setup, or similar to Victoria I do not know.

But until then, please recognise that we have and are changing. At the end of the change process hopefully we will be alot better than when I started 25 years ago.

My personal belief & opinion only.

Although the Fire Service here still does Confined space/Vertical/Low angle Rescues, along with the traditional road accident rescue, other states have the fire service covering USAR in a big way as well.

Its nothing personal, I just really hate the needless duplication of resources.

[Darius]

Personally, some Units do act like a 'Dad's Army' type organisation.

and of course you can equally well say the same thing about some CFS brigades!

[probie_boy]

the good thing about the SES is their endless array of extremely cool toys!

[CFS_Firey]

I dunno, I'm sure you can do some pretty cool things with a chainsaw...
Although "Fifteen minutes of sand-bagging" doesn't have the same ring to it does it...

[Manuel]

or maybe show them how to make a good sandwitch

[PF_]

or how to grow a beard, every SES meber I see has a beard

[CFS_Firey]

If an SES vol could grow a beard in 15 minutes, I'd pay good money to come and watch that!

[Toast]

Well, we could set up a nice display for them. We empty our pumper at them, and they have to sandbag the 'house' full of 'valuables' before they get destoryed. Then they could enter the "woodcutting" event and win it with ease... then they could... um... tow a 'bogged' vehicle around the main arena to show off their prowess at towing. Maybe then some.. uh... exciting... Land search? Looking for something in the grass...


On the other hand maybe not...

[probie_boy]

thing is you could probably do something similar for the SES. Put up that ever popular aireshelta. Seriously, you could probably do something good with the USAR stuff, then cut up a tree branch, then do a search ("hey, hey, seriously, someone down here lost a contact lens, keep an eye out for it")