Jamie, Heidi, Karen and Dan had our Rural Fire Service Basic Firefighter assessment on Saturday 1st September. Jamie and I went up to Lawson in the Valley Heights truck with Steve and another new member, Geoff. We stayed as a team with the addition of Trent who we knew reasonably well from the training days we'd had.
We were taken to the old Lawson golf course where a couple of scenarios had been set up as well as tables where we had to do a multiple choice exam. We did our exam first up then had to put out a couple of small fires in oil drums - but not before we'd dragged the hoses under a couple of barriers and round a tree. The next scenario was a larger fire. No obstacles this time - except perhaps having Heidi as the pump operator!
For our last scenario we were taken to an old shed and had to assess the area for hazards then pretend there was a massive fire coming in the next four minutes.
As we were leaving, Steve drove us into an area of tussocky grass and got us bogged. Luckily there was still another truck on the golf course and they had us pulled out in no time at all - not before a couple of kids on the Linden truck had taken photos on their mobile phones though!
Back at the Lawson shed we got the results of our multiple choice tests. We had to get at least 14 out of 20 questions right - Jamie and I both got 18/20. Yippee!
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