Monaro RFS

Nominations are closing today (Monday 6th September) for the Advanced Firefighter Course that is due to start on Thursday evening.

For more details and course information please go to our Training Calendar.

The images on our web site are restricted to a max of 500 pixels wide, so to help us share our higher resolution photos we have set up an account with flickr.com

Flickr is a revolution in photo storage, sharing and organization, making photo management an easy, natural and collaborative process. Get comments, notes, and tags on your photos, post to any blog, share and more!

Flickr is a free service with a pro membership option.

All of our members (staff and volunteers) are invited to join flickr.com and join our flickr group called "Monaro RFS". You can then share the RFS images with all of us.

To control content we have set up a few Monaro RFS moderators who will approve any photos that are posted in the Monaro RFS group.

Click HERE to get yourself a Flickr account and start sharing your RFS photos.

You can have a look at the Monaro RFS group photos by clicking HERE.

Our chainsaw instructors got together for a workshop on Saturday 28th of August as part of an initiative to streamline the delivery of our chainsaw courses. This workshop was an opportunity for our instructors to demonstrate and discuss the various techniques of chainsaw training delivery, debate some contentious issues and develop our operational capability when conducting machinery assisted falling operations.

Chainsaw Instructors

We had a great roll up (12 participants) at this workshop and all three of our districts were represented by chainsaw instructors.

The Village Firefighter course that was held in Cooma and at Sunny Corner on the 19th to 22nd of August 2010 was a great success. The participants were all keen and they displayed a good understanding of the principles that make village scenario decisions more appropriate given a wide range of variables.