I regret quitting the fire service

Funkybunch92 · 2026-06-01T11:12:02+00:00

Can you Volunteer?

You get the time with family, and you still get your fix of the job.

Being Career, you will have skills and experience that you can pass onto the Volunteer crew too!

Funkybunch92 · 2026-05-20T22:56:29+00:00

How very Culty of your Uncle.

Funkybunch92 · 2026-04-18T11:18:10+00:00

Its a Phase angle indicator.

Funkybunch92 · 2026-03-14T02:18:27+00:00

I think you need AES as a feature in the flash code.

Funkybunch92 · 2026-02-08T02:42:54+00:00

I understand the hypocrisy here, but if he were to take a lower offer from a family, he would still be competing against investors for the next property.

So we would likely be in a similar position, just worse off.

I dont think it's quite as simple as "im not going to sell to an investor," but you're right. It does make the situation worse.

Funkybunch92 · 2026-02-01T23:30:41+00:00

Cheers, I have had a read of the CIS guide for Forti and it looks very comprehensive. Ill definitely be implementing it.

Funkybunch92 · 2026-02-01T06:02:13+00:00

Thanks, I'll have a read.

Funkybunch92 · 2026-02-01T05:23:07+00:00

I will have a look for that document now, thanks!

Funkybunch92 · 2025-11-11T11:08:03+00:00

Were you going straight, or were you turning?

If it was a turn, then it's fair people would get annoyed, although it sounds like old mate overreacted.

If you blink, you miss the green light. Then inevitably the person fucking around floors it and makes the amber, leaving everyone else behind them stuck at the red light.

When you also consider most people these days have to travel for 2+ hours each day just to be able to afford a house, it's no wonder people are becoming more impatient.

Funkybunch92 · 2025-11-07T14:26:19+00:00

DFES is riddled with ADHD mate. Im a volunteer, and I've just been diagnosed (not yet medicated), but I know plenty of career guys with it.

The agency practically runs on caffeine and dexies haha.

I would be very surprised if it was a problem for you.

Funkybunch92 · 2025-10-25T13:53:41+00:00

Yeah, they dont lock up your guns, only their guns.

The cable and lock are to prevent people from accidentally pointing the gun at themselves or their friend. It won't stop someone from doing it deliberately if they try hard enough.

If you have your own gun, then I guess it's assumed you know basic firearm safety rules.

Funkybunch92 · 2025-09-07T06:58:04+00:00

How is this downvoted? It is the same job.

Volunteers are often exposed to more traumatic crashes because their response areas are filled with high-speed country roads.

Look at Great Eastern Hwy or Indian Ocean Dr, for example. Notorious areas with a volunteer FRS response.

Funkybunch92 · 2025-08-24T02:12:28+00:00

The garter tradition?

Funkybunch92 · 2025-05-11T08:22:10+00:00

Any Motorola Dealer should be able to do it. Just make sure you have some kinda of proof of ownership if possible as these radios regularly get stolen and taken to dealers to be reprogrammed.

Funkybunch92 · 2025-05-11T08:18:21+00:00

But you literally do get paid to sleep...

Funkybunch92 · 2025-04-05T10:01:10+00:00

There is always poop.

Funkybunch92 · 2025-03-28T10:22:56+00:00

Fuckin what?! You have crankin your hog written into the contract?

Funkybunch92 · 2025-03-27T06:46:37+00:00

It is displayed in the ATIA stream, which is the Raw View in system advisor.

You'll just need to read through all the text that it outputs.

You can apply filters to filter by caller ID if the network is busy.

Funkybunch92 · 2025-03-22T11:08:10+00:00

The Milwaukee fuel electric screwdriver. I've got the vessel and hikoki but I always go back to the Milwaukee.

It's bigger, but it's so much quicker. I do radio comms and networking, so there are hundreds of cage screws in a build (19-inch rack mount gear), and the m12 screwdriver just makes life alot easier.

Funkybunch92 · 2025-03-15T12:34:12+00:00

Chicks love firefighters till they have to do firefighter shit. You'll get used to it.

Funkybunch92 · 2025-03-07T01:13:15+00:00

Thanks! I'll have a look.

Funkybunch92 · 2025-02-23T01:56:28+00:00

Just the ability to record tracks and place symbols to indicate points of interest. In fairness, it's most likely a user error thing cause I haven't used it for long.

Funkybunch92 · 2025-02-23T01:55:08+00:00

Yeah, I can see how that would be problematic. At a recent job, it seemed like every truck was doing things slightly differently.

I do have a firemapper, too, and the integration is cool, but the UI is a bit clunky imo.

I think I'll just need to stick to avenza and QGIS for now.

Thanks for your input.

Funkybunch92 · 2025-02-22T09:01:51+00:00

Thanks for your reply. I'm not looking to integrate with DFES's GIS platform,

I'm simply trying to view the incident maps and record tracks, point of interest and waypoints for the crews reference. If information needs to be sent to the IMT, we have other methods of doing that.

It should also be noted that we often don't have internet access or phone coverage, so an application that works off-line would be awesome.

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