Thread: Vol Fire crew, who is one?

Are you any good with ladders and confined spaces?

I've got some sumps I need cleaned out.

My current job is dangerious enough. I don't need an unpaid job that is also dangerous.
Good luck finding someone.

Anyway, I think this conversation is getting a little bit off the top of this thread

I do it as a community minded thing, along with Land ARS, Coast guard, Medical response and other voluntary organisations that I'm involved in, only difference now is, I'm paid as a RFO during the fire season.

And don't forget CIPSS is available if you need anything too....

@Mauser308 you're in Auckland?

Either Silverdale or Manly (or both) have got them set up. Pretty sure it is on Ipad. One of the Silverdale SO travels for Chubb and pretty sure he goes your way.
A group of them are stomping around Abel Tasman Park and will call him later in the week

are they part of new appliances or something that'll be rolled out once the green light button is pressed? We are supposed to be getting a brand new appliance this month so wondering if it'll have one as standard.

Not likely
Some brigades have done their own setups.
you will need to buy your own smartphone to run the tablet

Originally Posted by sako75

Not likely
Some brigades have done their own setups.
you will need to buy your own smartphone to run the tablet

really? sounded like they were being trialed for roll out and were going to become part of our kit. so the are an initiative by some isolated brigades?

Originally Posted by smidey

really? sounded like they were being trialed for roll out and were going to become part of our kit. so the are an initiative by some isolated brigades?

I was talking short to mid term. Once FENZ gets sorted. There are quite a few things been trialed.
Also staying on old analogue system as opposed to digital like police

We had iauditor, but have gone back to paper for gear checks.

Tablet is now used for our risk plans.

We have another tablet up front for Active911. It works a treat. Although saying that, the big storm we had about a month ago, we never got any through on it....

Hydrant locations on it helps heaps.

http://active911.firehouse.co.nz/

Give this link a go. This is how other members of my brigade signed up. You need to use your fire service email otherwise they won't accept it. One way to guarantee that you are in NZFS. If you can't find your appliance number on the list, PM me and i'll check it on my phone. Eg. Mercer isn't on the list on that page, but they are on Active911, and I can get turnouts for them, if I want. I can only check appliances in region 1 however.

From the turnout, you can go straight to Google/Apple maps for directions, or to another maps page to see all the hydrants. If you don't have hydrants in your area, you are probably just better getting Firecomm to text you the TXT that you would usually get on the page.

Fairly large grass fires in Hawkes bay at the moment

If your up here fighting the fiery monster @BRADS stay safe please

Firefighters are brave guys and get my respect !

Apparently the fire in the Ripia area of the kawekas is still going so there are 4 fires here that I know of

Ah bugger that sucks.
It will be interesting to see this new system you speak of. Looking forward to it..

9.25 am and there are still 4 helos on the job



And it's still smoking in the pines