page_title: South Australian Country Fire Service
section_title: Weekly Training
hierarchical_section_title: South Australian Country Fire Service / Training / Weekly Training
context_page_description: The South Australian Country Fire Service is a volunteer based fire service in the Australian state of South Australia. The CFS has responsibility as the Control Agency for firefighting and hazardous materials and inland waterways in the country regions of South Australia. Its official mission is "To protect life, property and the environment from fire and other emergencies whilst protecting and supporting our personnel and continuously improving."
  Many parts of Australia are sparsely populated and under significant risk of bushfire. It would be prohibitively expensive for each Australian town or village to have a paid fire service. The compromise adopted is to have government funded equipment and training but volunteer fire-fighters to perform the duties of regular fire-fighters. In South Australia, the name for the volunteer service is the CFS. Each Australian State and Territory has its own service, such as the Country Fire Authority in the state of Victoria and the Rural Fire Service in the state of New South Wales.
  In the state capital Adelaide and larger towns in South Australia, a conventional paid service exists, the South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service.
context_section_description: Most urban stations have a weekly training, the time of this training differs between brigades. (Some brigades opt to have 2 training days a week, so that all members can attend). In this training time CFS members will revise skills which they have learnt in skill training. This training time is also used for organisation and maintenance. Below is a list of common things that happen on Training nights.
  Testing of equipment
  Pumps, pumping and draughting
  Social Games with other brigades
  Map reading, and navigation
  Communication skills
  Mock Search and Rescue
  Vehicle and station maintenance
  Fitness tests
  Mock Vehicle accidents
  Mock running grass fire
  Other mock incidents
caption: Fire fighters test a hose line during training.
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