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My name is Neville Brown and my wife Anne and I have been travelling through Turkey for the last 6 weeks and we’re now back in Istanbul. I noticed on my map a Fire Department Museum, my map reading skills aren’t that flash, but I still stumbled across the museum that I was looking for. Right next door was the central fire station. The museum was locked so I approached a group of firefighters near the front entrance. They found someone who could speak English – Kadir the editor of the Turkish Firefighter magazine. Fortunately I had brought a recent copy of Fire & Rescue with me, which I gave him. He then took me on a tour of the station. It’s the senior station for Istanbul so accordingly it’s quite large. Most of the equipment looked modern and well kept. There were a large number of vehicles but not enough garaging for all of them. Their pride and joy was a new 25 metre TTL and a couple of new Unimog Rescue Tenders. We had several çays (Turkish teas) together, then I was invited to lunch with them. A very nice 3 course lunch was cooked by professional staff. My Turkish and their English didn’t always get through but I found out some of the basics, e.g. they work 24 on 48 off. I also briefly visited another station in the city of Antalya on the south coast. I blundered upon this station as well looking for something else. They had one small pump (which needs to be small because of the narrow roads) and a motorcycle appliance. The bike carries a single BA with small cylinder, a rescue line for cliff rescues, three 2kg dry powder extinguishers, several crow bars, a sledge hammer for entry purposes and MVAs and a stand pipe key. Also entry keys and elevator keys. This crew works 9am to 9pm daily and goes home at night. During the day the station is manned with 5 firefighters and at night not manned at all. Three of them live locally and respond from home. I found that all crews seem to be paid and there didn’t appear to be any concept of volunteer work. In the smaller towns I got the impression that fire trucks were possibly manned by local council staff. All the best Nev Brown Talking Turkey Ex-volunteer firefighter and Fire & Rescue foreign correspondent Neville Brown has been traipsing around Turkey lately and has a couple of fire related stories he wanted to share with the group. Neville has been a volunteer fire fighter with the Waiheke Island Bridge for 38 years, he was Deputy Chief at Waiheke for 10 years and Fire Police for the last couple of years preceding his retirement, here’s his story from Turkey: Thanks Nev, and if anyone else has any stories of Fire brethren from afar drop us a line. 22 Issue No. 32 Tales from Afar
IFE Conference 2007 Keeping pace: Technology and modern emergency management The 2007 Emergency Managers Conference (comprising the IFE and Civil Defence Wellington regional conferences) is on at the Wellington Convention Centre on October 4 & 5. The conference will feature three speaking streams covering issues of technology in the risk, reduction, response and recovery phases of emergency management. Speakers will include emergency management professionals from the United States, Sweden, Australia and New Zealand. They will include Fire Service chief executive / national commander Mike Hall, Minister of Internal Affairs Rick Barker and the Director of Civil Defence and Emergency Management John Hamilton. More information on registering and for prospective sponsors and speakers is available by contacting Russell Wood at Russell.Wood@fire.org.nz. A new man The man who has been editing this magazine for 2 years now has left us for fairer shores, and I am his replacement. My name is David Cormack and I come to you from the Ministry of Health where I spent the last 18 months as the sole communications guy for the Programme Management Office inside the Corporate and Information Directorate. That was about as exciting as it sounds so I’m really looking forward to my time here at the Fire Service. Iain had the magazine humming from the look of it so I don’t plan on making any wholesale changes. But if you see anything you’d like added then please let me know. Other than that, I hope you enjoy this month’s and the following months’ installments of Fire & Rescue. Noticeboard Brian Davey IFE New Zealand Branch president The New Zealand Fire Service Magazine August 2007 23
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