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Argyle Fire & Rescue appliance Western Australia
International Acco 1977, rear view showing blue kit bags containing personal turnout gear of each fire member. This enables protection from elements and things that bite like scorpions, giant centipedes, red-back spiders and brown snakes!
Photo courtesy Lincoln Kirby, Argyle Fire & Rescue.
International Acco 1977, rear view showing blue kit bags containing personal turnout gear of each fire member. This enables protection from elements and things that bite like scorpions, giant centipedes, red-back spiders and brown snakes!
Photo courtesy Lincoln Kirby, Argyle Fire & Rescue.
Pat, I have no idea. I'll have to get hold of the lads and find out for you. John, back in the good old days, after a decent burn, protocol was to partake in the amber fluid during debrief, volunteer outfits that is, not career stn's.
Added by Pav on 05 March 2009.
Added by Pav on 05 March 2009.
In the US both patterns exist, usually depending on how far from the firehouse the volunteers live and/or have their workplace.
Departments with a combination of full time and volunteers usually have one or two full timers take each unit to the incident, while volunteers respond directly in their own vehicles with their turnout gear on board.
Added by Rob Johnson on 20 September 2019.
Departments with a combination of full time and volunteers usually have one or two full timers take each unit to the incident, while volunteers respond directly in their own vehicles with their turnout gear on board.
Added by Rob Johnson on 20 September 2019.
Two other interesting features of this truck, which seem to reflect typical Aussie practice. The pump collector has inlets for two regular hoses and a large diameter inlet for suctions or LDH. The lockers flanking the pump compartment contain preconnected flaked hoses, which can be rapidly run out to the rear and/ or either side, rather like a split version of the characteristic American hose bed. They are restocked by opening a hinged side panel.
Added by Rob Johnson on 15 December 2024.
Added by Rob Johnson on 15 December 2024.
International
Are the kit-bags carried to the fire-scene on the trucks; kept at the Fire-Hall; or, carried by the members in their own vehicles; or, any combination of the above.....??
Just curious - in my dispersed rural area here (no central town centre); one VFD has all the members' gear carried on the trucks - split among 3, in event of non-arrival at scene.
The other VFD has their gear at the Fire-Hall, for closer-living members; the further away ones carry their gear in their own vehicles, and respond straight to the scene.
Both ideas have their plus' and minus' - so I was wondering how others handle it.
Regards, from Canada,
Pat_R-B
Added by Pat Rivers-Bowerman on 03 March 2009.