Thread: Welcome to the volly room

Had a big afternoon on Friday and all Saturday at a fire that burned 10 hectares in Cornwallis. Glad I'm not on the tools any more as I was smashed by the end of it.
Kudos to the Rural Fire crews from Puhoi and Kaukapakapa who came down at the end of the day and did the night watch and worked on hotspots until the sun came up

Gave the ute the jandal too the station before....almost there read my pager.......happy new year and merry Xmas
Buggers


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Or in a deep sleep and leapt out of bed for a weather alert message

just spoke to my wife , (who is in comms) and she said you guys do that a lot .....so your not alone , maybe a quick look at the pages first ..... before flooring the pedal ..... be a good way to get out of work for a little bit , "sorry boss , pager is going , I gotta go !!!!"

Comms can send information messages to CFO/DCFO pagers only.
Learned a long time ago to read the pager before jumping out windows or leaping fences.
Thumbed a ride to the station with one of the boys the other day. Told him to slow down and reminded him that you still have to abide by road laws when turning out. Hard to stay under 50kph. Hazard lights don't give you any special powers either

haha that is common for a couple of our blokes to, they have had a few lonely moments at the station.

the other thing that gets them is the siren. Our station is directly across the harbour from Marsden Point Oil Refinery, they test their siren and if the wind is blowing in our direction it sounds similar to ours so that usually gets one or two less experienced members moving.

Busy down here, just got back from a plantation fire surrounded by crop and fire in Twizel also which was close to the town. Got a few snaps while waiting for water


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so true these days and especially accurate for my station, we have been classed as a NZFS first response unit.

Medical?

Originally Posted by Mauser308

Happy New Year all, hope it's been as quiet as ours has here!

Been quiet most of the year then gone busy since Xmas started

Had one of the lads come over this morning to help knock down our chimney. Said we would run the lead throught the kitchen window incase we got a callout. Before I had a chance to open the window, the siren was going

Originally Posted by sako75

Medical?

Yeah

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How is your brigade on it? Do some just want to do fires only, not bedsit oldies till the ambo arrives?

generally we are on board but yeah there are a few that aren't keen.
We have always had high numbers of medicals, we have been turned out to purple calls for years so used to get plenty of resuss practice but us and te kopuru are now the only two northland stations that are NZFS first response units i'm told. so if st john get called, we get tipped out no matter what type of call it is so could be quite busy from now on. it takes an ambo at least 30 mins to get to us so it does make sense, we just haven't done the training yet haha

We have been like that since the late 1980s. We have some who are fire fighters only, some who are 1st responders only and some who do both. Works well. Majority of our calls are medical and likewise the ambo is fair way from here. Paid for our own equipment and training.
We have been through the ups and downs with fire/ambo politics. We do it for the community, not to be a pawn in the political game