Country Fire Service (South Australia) 17
Country Fire Service (South Australia) 17 : Fire Fighting: Fire fighting is the main job of the CFS. They respond to any fires including country and urban. Fire fighters combat grass fires, bush fires, crop fires, scrub fires, haystack fires, and brush fence fires, house fires, chimney fires, car fires, rubbish bin fires etc. Most trucks carry breathing apparatus, and use foam as a fire fighting agent. The CFS's specialty is the containment, control and extinguishing of bushfires (wildfires). This can be via offensive or defensive methods of attack. Also with the aid of water bombers (Crop duster type fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters). While Fire-fighters will never put themselves into an overly dangerous situation, (the Dead Man Zone) they will attack the fire as quickly and as directly as possible. Fire fighting can be done in several ways: (a) As a direct attack. (b) A head attack (the front of the fire is attacked. Only suitable for small, or slow moving fires). (c) A flank attack. (The most common method. The fire is extinguished along its flanks, starting at the back, and working forward, until you have pinched the fire out). (d) As an indirect attack. (e) Back Burning (Light a smaller fire in front of the main front, so that when the main front arrives, there is no fuel left to burn). (f) Using mineral earth breaks (Using bulldozers, or rakehoes to clear fuel from the path of the fire). (g) Leaving a fire to burn itself out, while monitoring its perimeter
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