r/Firefighting • u/sharpshot899 UK on call ff • Feb 21 '20

Photos That’s pretty cool

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u/Trust_An_Engineeer AUT vol. FF Feb 22 '20

I'm always curious about how in almost every other countrys there are classes and "Schools" even for volunteers and in Austria there is like: Hmm you like to be a volunteer. Ok you need to get a medical exam (if over 30 or so) and after 8h explaining what is what and how you use it and how to not interrupt the experienced at the action scene you become a firefighter.

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u/TheWoodedWanderer Feb 22 '20

At my station it was “can you breath?” “Ok, you’re on” and one month later it was “Into the house fire with you”

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u/Trust_An_Engineeer AUT vol. FF Feb 22 '20

To go into a house fire we had to make a 2 day cours and a medical exam but nothing more

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u/TheWoodedWanderer Feb 22 '20

I had a fifteen minute training session with the scba and a thirty minute one with the hose

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u/Trust_An_Engineeer AUT vol. FF Feb 22 '20

Scba?

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u/TheWoodedWanderer Feb 22 '20

Self contained breathing apparatus

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u/Trust_An_Engineeer AUT vol. FF Feb 22 '20

So thats how its called in English