Any other Firefighters here?

[Cybermat47]

I’m in the New South Wales Rural Fire Service, a volunteer group that deals with bushfires. I joined last year, but thanks to a shortage of new recruits at that time, I only managed to do my Bush Firefighter assessment a few weeks ago. Before then I’d only been able to take part in maintenance and making control lines, but now I’m able to go to hazard reductions and respond to incidents.

 

The place I live in is pretty prone to bushfires. Back in 2013, when I was still in highschool, we had a massive fire in my area, one of the worst on record. 2 people died and 248 buildings were lost.

 

 

 

[Uufflakke]

There is (at least) one other firefighter around.

 

https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/1609-faces-of-the-flying-community/?page=16&tab=comments#comment-638896

[SidtheGit]

Hi Cybermat, Salute my friend. 

 

I am a retired firefighter, started in 1979 and retired in 2014.....think I'd done enough by then. I was a wholetime (full time) UK firefighter for 32 years, doing all roles including blue light driving, instructing, running Watchs (shifts) and stations within Worcestershire during my time in. When I retired from Wholetime I went as a retained (part time) firefighter in charge of a part time Watch, sharing pumps and duties with Wholetime firefighters at my local station for 3 years. Absolutely loved it, miss the people and 'shouts' but not the admin cr@p that is always there. Glad I'm out now, my fellow retirees and me always greet each other with a smile. Get to go out for beer and curry with some a few times a year too.

 

Couple of photos...one of me taking my fire kit off the truck at the end of my last shift as a Wholetime Watch Commander, the other (me circled) taken with my retained shift at a local airport where we did foam training.

 

 

 

 

Take care mate, and stay safe.

 

Best regards

 

Sid

[LukeFF]

Former volunteer and Fire Explorer back in the late '90s - in fact, I graduated from the Riverside County volunteer fire academy before I graduated from high school in 1997. 

 

Graduation day in April of '97:

 

 

[SAS_Bombsaway]

17 hours ago, Uufflakke said:

There is (at least) one other firefighter around.

 

https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/1609-faces-of-the-flying-community/?page=16&tab=comments#comment-638896

 

Hi Uuff. Thanks for the mention.

 

Second generation Firefighter here. My father was a Baltimore City Firefighter for 20 years after he got out of the US Navy serving in WWII in the Pacific.

I'm Volunteer and proud. I started in Castroville Texas and now am in Bay Minette Alabama.

 

A few pics ...

 

 

 

Teex Fire school... I love this place. It's the size of a small town and everything burns  They have mock ups of ships, planes, refineries, derailed trains, you name it.

 

 

 

I love it. Cheers guys. Stay safe!

[Hoss]

Not a civilian fire fighter, but did shipboard firefighting, flying squad.... damage control.............  on a ship there's no where to run.............. 

 

Hoss

[Cybermat47]

Awesome photos and stories, guys 

 

This is some footage I got of the 2013 fires. The area I live in, the Blue Mountains, is mostly made up of dry eucalyptus trees, and high temperatures are normal, but 2013 was unlike anything I’d ever seen, or have seen since.