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FIRE SERVICE AND GENERAL FIRE SAFETY TOPICS => Fire Safety => Topic started by: ianpotter on August 30, 2005, 12:49:49 PM

Title: Fire Training
Post by: ianpotter on August 30, 2005, 12:49:49 PM

Does anyone know a way of contacting ex fire officers who may now be interested in opportunities to carry out paid work for us providing fire training for clients?
Thanks
Ian

Title: Fire Training
Post by: ian gough on August 30, 2005, 01:15:41 PM

Well you've probably already found one excellent way of contacting ex officers! However, I have a few contacts, if you would like to e-mail me some further details at: igough19@hotmail.com I'll help if I can.

Title: Fire Training
Post by: fireftrm on August 30, 2005, 01:33:04 PM

And try here too, I have some ex-colleagues who would be interested and some present ones, depending on the work being outside their authority areas.

E-mail link at the base of this post.

Title: Fire Training
Post by: wee brian on August 31, 2005, 07:19:28 AM

Ian

Why only ex Fire Officers?

Title: Fire Training
Post by: colin todd on August 31, 2005, 06:51:06 PM

Because, Brian, everone knows you dont know diddly squat about fire and fire safety unless you have driven a red HGV. Goodness sake, man have you learned nothing at the establishment at which you work. Do its initials not indeed stand for Big Red Engine?????No wonder you civil servanty chaps need help with AFd systems. How can you know how an integrated circuit works if you have never watched water flowing through hoses. You would not understand the analogy between water flow rate and current. Anyhow stop being so controversial and let the geezer get on with recruiting the lads.

Title: Fire Training
Post by: wee brian on September 01, 2005, 09:24:42 AM

Oh I see. I just thought it was because they were on a pension and so are cheaper to employ.

Title: Fire Training
Post by: Paul on September 01, 2005, 10:09:38 AM

oooooooooooooow

Title: Fire Training
Post by: fireftrm on September 01, 2005, 11:32:06 AM

Actually Colin hit a very good teaching point there. In teaching electrical circuits I have found that the use of water (something pupils can actually see and feel) is one of the very best practical methods.

Battery = storage reservoir, or tank in the loft. Wiring = piping. Voltage = pressure. Current = flow. Resistor = tap. Capacitor = toilet cistern (released full flow when required) . So thanks for the reminder about how useful knwoledge of hydraulics can be in understand ing electronics.

Title: Fire Training
Post by: colin todd on September 01, 2005, 06:39:24 PM

Thats ok. In Scotland, we were taught that when we were 14. Brian, You know how you have two jobs and all....... Will you be getting two pensions and be really really really cheap to employ? But better get the garden hose out, so you will have learned enough to be emoloyable by the time you retire. Put the time watering the garden in your CPD diary. Firey and I like people to do CPD.

Title: Fire Training
Post by: bl on September 26, 2005, 02:36:36 PM

It's all abpout sector competency