My Firefighter Nation
Australian Firefighters
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NOZZLE AID DONATION
Hello Introduce my name Fran, from Samarinda, East Borneo, Indonesia. I was a volunteer firefighter. I recently bought locally nozzle via online, in accordance with my ability pockets. I was disappointed with the quality, it has a flaw. hard to control and hard to adjust spray. in my place there is…
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Share training material?
Hi everyone, I am sorry for my intrusion in your group since I am not an Aussie:-)Though I have met two Aussies in my life which almost qualifies me:-)My name is Lars and I work within the fire service in Sweden.I have a website where I try to collect training materials (powerpoints etc) from all…
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Know Your Smoke Workshops
Chief Rob Schnepp, Captain Mike Gagliano, and Chief Jason Krusen will be presenting workshops in Brisbane (26-26 March and Dandenong (27-28 March).This training program is sponsored by the Fire and Smoke Coalition INC. RAE Systems and Sasgar Fire and Rescue Australia’s agent for…
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Seeing Who Is Here
I am not an official AUS firie but I spent six weeks in QLD and NSW working with my brothers from down under on a job study through Rotary International. I had the chance to start in Coolangatta, go up through Brisbane, Boonah, Warwick, then down to Grafton, Iluka, Narang, and Surfer's, as well as…
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Mobile Phone Ringtones For Call Out Notification
Even though all of us aussie fire fighters carry pagers around for fire call notification how many have their own personalised mobile phone profile or allocated ringtone for fire ban days if you are out of the house or in town doing shoppingI find that having an allocated ringtone or set phone…
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2009/2010 fire season busy or quiet ?
With the fire season for SA and Vic approaching very quickly and being only 3 months away now is a good time to kick the footy around this forum and get everyones opinion on if they think this fire season will be busier than the 2008/2009 season or reasonably quieti'll go first with my opinion.....…
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How many volunteer stations have active fire sirens
Well im on a roll as this is my 3rd discussion topic.... While the call out notification for volunteer fire fighters here in Australia is either via pager or mobile phone there is also the traditional method of alert volunteers and members of the public by setting off a air raid siren so everyone…
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Songs you play responding to the fire shed for a call out
Okay fellow aussie vollie fire fighters while we dont have the luxury of personal lights and sirens on our own vehicles like our American colleagues do there are some of us who play favourite songs on repeat with the cd player going full bore when responding to the fire shed for a call outSadly im…
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Group discussions
Well, we now have a whole 7 discussions in here!I've never thought of starting a group discussion, I default to the main forums. If for nothing else I suppose it'd be good to post here at times simply for not having to convert measurements over to Imperial for those in the USA to understand!There…
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Need to fly the flag
G'day mates,Whomever is the administrator of this group, I downloaded an Aussie flag for us to use as the graphic here. All you have to do is add it. Here it is:Thought we should have a nice flag to honor our brothers down under.
