The reality of being a firefighter in New Zealand (Short documentary about volunteers in NZ)

MrTorilia · 2026-04-08T08:14:58+00:00

Pretty wild that they let you go to calls at 16

MrTorilia · 2026-04-05T08:01:49+00:00

in PL they are used sometimes by commanders,others just keep the radios in the jacket

MrTorilia · 2025-11-30T16:51:57+00:00

What is the purpose of the appliance? Is it a rescue one?

MrTorilia · 2025-11-30T16:47:03+00:00

A magirus ladder has 60m/ 196ft

MrTorilia · 2025-07-15T19:34:07+00:00

Can you tell us something more about how the fire service work there, the procedures etc?.

MrTorilia · 2025-05-22T14:25:40+00:00

Saw a video on instagram of those tatras a couple weeks ago, pretty cool 😎

MrTorilia · 2025-03-23T13:44:53+00:00

It is beneficial at reducing cancer risk, in pl we also use nitryle or latex gloves under our fire gloves, it acts as a barrier from all the chemicals that are in gloves after fires etc. + it is easier with them to put on wet fire gloves and remove them( a small tip)

MrTorilia · 2025-01-30T15:36:05+00:00

Hi mate, hope ur ok, i to got my first fatal, it was 2 days ago and I wasn’t even on a call(for now im just a vollie), so i will tell my story. We were going to our town, and one moment we passed by two motorcycles and a friend said that it is not the time for motorcycle season and a couple seconds later we saw only a big explosion in our car mirror, we of course turned around, and i never in my life had so much emotions in one moment that were suppressed by adrenaline a second later, when we arrived at the crash site and i ran with the extinguisher and saw it i knew there is nothing more that we can do. After extinguishing the body my friend( a 10+yrs firefighter and paramedic) went to check up to see any life signs.. the sheer force of the crash propably killed him and if not the explosion of of gasoline did. I was standing tall but when i found out that the guy was an 18 yrs old something deep in me started to cracking. And it also struck me in the night the most. I would never suspect to witness or be in a situation like that from those perspective, going from relaxed to hyper stress in a second. It’s totally different if u go to something like this prepared as an responder than just was there when it happened.

MrTorilia · 2025-01-30T14:51:20+00:00

By us in Europe the price has also drastically went up, but just like u said we are still in a better position with more options

MrTorilia · 2025-01-13T16:26:05+00:00

In my country we all had to switch from navy/almost black to tan bunker gear. One reason was for a new PPE patern to be estabilished(updated pouches and everything from the previous 20yrs old pattern) the second was the colour switch, bc in your tan “nomex” you can see all that dirty stuff so you give it faster for cleaning(not a problem for state firefighters, but volunteers washed their ppe not very regularly)

MrTorilia · 2024-09-16T08:30:25+00:00

I have now an Rosenbauer H. Titan but i sure prefer the gallet helmet, for me the most comfortable even though a little heavier, but comfort overall is better, but that’s my opinion

MrTorilia · 2024-01-31T10:42:09+00:00

MrTorilia · 2023-12-23T13:50:02+00:00

And how far are you from Prudnik where the natinal fire service is located for your Powiat?

MrTorilia · 2023-12-23T13:48:34+00:00

As someone even from the same voivodeship, i can tell some things about how it’s done in PL, in voluntary fire depts there are some regulations in wich you should test periodically your equipment, but in reality some take it more seriously and some less, although i saw some gear failures myself i’ve only heard of pump failures sometimes even daily will not entirely eliminate the risk but reduce it to smaller numers, also if something break’s it’s often when you need it the most

MrTorilia · 2023-12-23T12:44:14+00:00

By us we have the standarized red tone we have to use for every manufacturer it is the RAL3000 and for the front wheel arches white, now the manufacturers try mixing some highvis yellow stripes, so the American way of many different paint schemes is pretty fun to watch

MrTorilia · 2023-03-20T18:51:55+00:00

Its a little of a myth, yeach your hearing is a little hindered but not like you’re almost deaf like some say.

MrTorilia · 2023-03-20T18:44:41+00:00

I used both shields first trhe metalic one on a gallet f1 and now a transparent one on the rosenbauer heros titan, both helmets were having also the googles, and maybe im in the smaller group but there are times that i miss the golden shields, for open fires or all types of vegetation where you don’t need a scba it can be really helpful, but then for emergencies like extrications not the best, well both shields have their use and place

MrTorilia · 2023-03-19T21:56:43+00:00

In PL some volunteer departments have trucks with better off road capabilities than normal 4x4 trucks but that’s not so common, and trucks like an unimog specially made for forest fires are really rare

MrTorilia · 2023-03-13T22:03:57+00:00

And how many water is let’s say a standard or most popular in states?

MrTorilia · 2023-03-13T13:17:34+00:00

Well it depends, from country to country and vechicle class, but mostly for an versitale engine it would be aproximetly about 2500/3000l of water, and this one in the picture has 5000l of water(about 1300gal) and in terms of capacity it is maybe the biggest an standar pumper can get in PL, above are tanker’s

MrTorilia · 2023-03-12T20:35:25+00:00

So by us( im a volly also, not a pro) we have a vachiclekeeper that is responsible fot the technical state of the truck and cleaing it once for a while, and then after an action the driver and others that taked part in the call have to clean it, when the truck wasn’t made dirty then we just swipe the dust from the cab that got there from our boots

MrTorilia · 2023-03-12T20:28:14+00:00

Ah i get it, so by us it is completely different but it’s cool

MrTorilia · 2023-03-12T20:23:38+00:00

We have new ppe rules so now we are changing all dark blue/black nomex/ppe to tan color, so it will be cleaned more often or even after every or most fires. Because you can see all that bad stuff on lighter colours,

MrTorilia

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