Recent content by aussiegeorge

In Sydney Australia the Fire Dept has being trying for over 15 years to get firefighters to respond to medical calls but the firefighters and there union keep saying no not unless we get a 12.5% pay rise to do it.The Ambulance service in the city is getting busier and busier with response times...

cdfmarshal i work in Australia's biggest city Sydney.There are 102 fire stations in the city the slowest engine(we call them pumps)goes on around 300 runs  in a year and the busiest around 6500.T he types of calls would be the same as any big city in the USA.We don't run on EMS calls as a rule...

I remember reading that book many years ago when i was still a young fire-fighter and thinking 20,000 alarms man that's a lot of turnouts,now just passing 31 years on the job i worked out that the stations I've been assigned to would make my count at around 35,000 alarms,still loving every shift...