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Is it uncalled for to compensate rural firefighters or perfectly fine?

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ADF Reservists called up will be paid at the rate appropriate to their rank, so it's possible and highly probable that some will get paid at a higher rate than they do at their civilian job.

Good.
Posted by Is Mise, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 4:53:28 PM
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AC, you are not to far off history, until recently a levy on insurance policies paid for the fire brigade. In a bygone era, early fire brigades were operated by insurance companies. I'm not to sure how that actually worked, the insurance company brigade would only attend fires of customers of their company.

In Victorian London, private fire brigades operated like tow truck drives today, alerted to a fire they raced to the scene, then touted for the business. I assume negotiations on price took place while your establishment burned to the ground.
Posted by Paul1405, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 5:17:03 PM
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I would be interested to learn how in earlier times people fought bush fires in Australia. I can recall as a kid, my grandfather and a couple of uncles and neighbours fighting grass fires near the house with back pack pump sprays and sticks with rags on the ends dipped in water bucks filled from the house tanks. Can't recall any local service with trucks that had water tanks and pumps. There must have been some kind of organised system, somewhere.
Posted by Paul1405, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 6:02:51 PM
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Paul1405,
You're referring to the real Australians, you know the ones who did National Service, not the present-day versions who demand the Govt do "something" !
Posted by individual, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 7:31:28 PM
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Hey thinkabit,

"Is this what you intended with your idea or is it something you didn't account for?"
- Something I didn't account for.

The point is, I see volunteer fire-fighters risking their lives and getting paid squat, while they could be at the least defending their own homes, and for what purpose?
So insurance companies get to save a few dollars?
I think that something doesn't seem fair or right here.
Posted by Armchair Critic, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 9:58:57 PM
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Paul, most farmers in the Young area had a table top truck, then a number of things to fit on it up on stands. You drove under the stock crate, or the water tank, & lowered it onto the truck. Most tanks were only a thousand gallons or so, as the trucks were not big.

In our area it was only grass fires. They would tie us kids sitting on the side of the truck with a hose, to hose the tyres if they drove through fire, & have one or 2 men hosing the fire with fire hoses.

Some used a rear spray rail, & would drive through the edge of the fire spraying it, with kids on each side defending the tyres. Health & safety were not a big deal in the 50s.

A lot of it was wet corn or heavy wheat sacks, bashing the fire as it came out of wooded areas. I never saw any attempt to fight fires in moderately wooded country. That kind of stuff was forest grazing, & burned every 3 years or so to control woody weeds saplings & noxious weeds, so all the fires were small compared to today's fires.

We never had anything like these heavily wooded national park forest country fires. There was some heading into the blue mountains from Bathurst, but I never heard of any one fighting fires in that.
Posted by Hasbeen, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 12:06:11 AM
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