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It can be feast or famine!

Well it depends Mick, if you get called right at the beginning, usually a pager alert after a 000 call in our area, it can be everything from hopping out and getting wet stuff on hot stuff, right through to calling for more resources and helping direct them. It also depends on your rank and...

Ohhh shit! Our fires are calming down now, I'm due to go back up on Sunday...we had a request for a three day deployment down south...couldn't make it, medical appointments. Where a week ago we were still actively protecting assets in 30+* heat...today it is 2* and it snowed last night, crazy...

At least we have a 'presumptive illness' cover for volunteer and career firefighters...a whole range of cancers and illnesses that if you fall ill with one of them they will presume it was from your exposure as a firefighter and you get coverage.

Over here we now have over 100,000ha burnt since Dec 23. The scary part is that habitats that are NOT fire succession habitats, such as the alpine region that previously were resistant to fire because they were wet/damp have now become dry enough to burn. Endemic pencil pine and native cushion...

eclectic...for sure :)

Well this is the derail of all derails!!! Fascinating stuff though, I am constantly amazed at what kind of stuff people know about in the House...we all not just 'tree cutters'!

Interesting discussion, over here, you wouldn't be allowed to build a house in the bush now unless you have defendable space around it. We triage the fire ground for stuctures based on Defendable by homeowner- cleared space, no fuel loads near house, grasses cut short, ember proof construction...