Monthly:September 2023

Trail Cutting

Basic Firefighting Assessment

BASIC FIREFIGHTING ASSESSMENT 24 September 2023 Three of our members are getting assessed today! I will assessing the candidates except those from my brigade! This is an all-day practical assessment consisting of several tasks and an exercise. We established several stations: hose rolling and bowling (my station), portable pumps, simple fire response, urban navigation (route planning), tool identification, trail cutting and radio communications. All the candidates also have to participate into a firefighting scenario incorporating an overrun drill and a […]

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Vertical Mobility Training

VR TRAINING 9 September 2023 A day out in Lawson for some vertical mobility training with the Blue Mountains SES team…

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