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Thats really strange because i had a quick glance over the paging and there have been a few jobs down strath way, where Strath SES havent been paged at all. lack of day crews prehaps?

Quote from: 6739264 on June 25, 2008, 12:26:03 PM
Finally! Re-named to "Adelaide hills lanscape clean up service"

numbers your a classic!
:lol:

he he i think there cute appliances! there so big :P
lol

any of you other people planning on going in anything?

Quote from: Robert34 on January 26, 2008, 06:21:47 PM
1908915 19:03:30 26-01-08 HAHNDORF INFO THOSE INVOLVED IN CRICKET MATCH TOMORROW PLEASE BE AT STATION AT 0900 FOR 100 START AT THE OVAL THE PRES CFS Hahndorf Info

Has India challenged the Hahndorf Country Fire Service to cricket match tomorrow  :roll: :lol:

if thats the case........go hahndorf! :-D

Quote from: B2 on January 12, 2008, 03:19:50 PM
Where is smallflame.. she should be able to answer about the SAAS reimbursing vollies.

prehaps ashamed? heard smallflame hasnt done a lot recently.

Quote from: sesroadcrashrescue on January 11, 2008, 01:48:41 PM
15:09:16 11-01-08 MFS: IF A PICTURE PAINTS A THOUSAND WORDS THEN WHY CANT I PAINT YOU MFS Elizabeth 331 Response

some ones having fun

dam u beat me to it :P

Quote from: boredmatrix on January 09, 2008, 07:08:36 PM
mmm...these two old chestnuts again!

Goolwa rumour has been going around for 10 years.....and the retained one for nearly as long!

ha ha! wonderful input there!. very blunt and to the point...

thanks guys, just thourght i would ask, coz there was an ad in the paper and it said minimum age was 19. so i didnt go to the info night because of that.

cheers

i dont understand why the age to volunteer with SAAS if higher then what it is for CFS or even SES.
does anyone know why?

i was thinknig the same thing,

but spose some would consider it a joke!? but i thourght that sort of thing at 2 am in the morning was a bit rude anyway!

kk stop not picking on training methods.

now wat about this

SACFS cricket team?
lol

country kid

i agree with recue hazmat, specially out where we are.

ha ha out here the our community run the and own the local shopand the tin shed known as the pub!, are the school teachers and the the bus driver, and commuinty board members and the CFS volunteers. so we pitch in, we do our bit  :-D LMAO
also the church congregation and pastor! so if there is an incident...church is cancelled till later :-D

yes- maccy cfs does have the new BWC, it was at the recent group xmas party, for ppl to look at.

Quote from: sesroadcrashrescue on December 25, 2007, 04:57:55 PM
still why would CFS want to take RCR away from SES?

wouldnt it be better for a service who can leave one job to respond to a RCR. its a bit hard to release a CFS truck from a going fire least a SES crew can leave a storm job for a RCR.

at the end of the day it dosent matter who dose it however in built up area (metro) MFS should be RCR regardless of who is around them as they have a much faster turnout time. and in rural areas SES provide RCR except where it is to far for the nearest SES to provide RCR as primary response and hence CFS rescue responds. with SES backing up if required and same with CFS     

well in saying that, wouldnt it be beneficial for both services to be trained up for RCR. because its not always a ses can leave a storm damage, they do more then that. ie land search.
just a thourght, because logically it would be better, then you have a second reponse unit aswell either way.

i said wat i did, because i know the little rural cfs tend to do the local fallen trees. thats the way it is, because thats all there is, it is seen to be helping the community, and well a fallen tree, can turn out to be a carVs fallen tree so we cant aslways wait for the closest SES to get there.
but basically if the CFS can help the community by cutting up a fallen tree, i honestly think that the could help the community by doing a land search for locals and wat not. so i just thourght it makes sence!

anyways.

country kid

its funny coz that thourght came to me the other day aswell.

i know the more rural cfs do a lot of the fallen trees and are RCR responce and stuff, but if they could under take a little more training they could help out with land searches and stuff Storm and Flood damage. it makes sence, and well it would be easier then sending crews from else where. it would be local knowledge and stuff aswell.

yeh my opinion only!

country kid

okay  i get where everyone is coming from...
but...MACK ... wat about a spare of hands for traffic control at a RCR or something. i mean it would be usefull, and yes i do understand not knowin them but think about it, most of the time we go to RCR's we dont know them and they still trust us all

country kid

Quote from: rescue5271 on December 21, 2007, 05:40:10 AM
Siren will help in many ways,one it tells the public we are still there,it also alerts those members who have gone out with out their pagers and last of all it also alerts any other cfs members who are in town that we have a job and they may come and help....

i have a question...im a newbie, and a baby.
but anyway if your actually in a different brigade, but are somewhere else when the other siren goes off, are you allowed to go see if the other brigade needs more hands?

just curious

country kid

hey jasec...did you get pictures of the dust storms that hit up there a few days ago. my dad sent me pictures aswell  will try and fine them!

country kid

oh okay thanks guys. so there usefull  :-D

cheers
country kid

i dont get/understand what the army would do?
do they know how to fight fires?
im quiet new to all this and havent heard about utilizing the army before.

cheers
country kid

well at least the cfs is fundraising. more then i can say for some SEs units i know of.
:evil:

i dont think people are realy fussed by being called the babies thou...Zippy doesnt seem to be, im not, and well honestly thats hw most people see it anyway becasue we are the youngest ones out there.

just how i see things though!

cheers country kid

yes,agree with chook.
its great starting young, because the older members are usually mroe then happy to take us under there wing and teach us things. they mentor us and are so willing to help us.
because they obvisouly know that they arent going to be around for ever to run the brigade, so why not start training the next generations. that way we know all the tricks of the trade as well!

cheers!