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How do you know you've been a Volley for too long...

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When your sitting on the bus on your way to work, looking at a vacant overgrown block of land planning out how you would go about doing a controlled burn... :?


Anyone else been in the bridage too long?
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Bigfella78 wrote:When your sitting on the bus on your way to work, looking at a vacant overgrown block of land planning out how you would go about doing a controlled burn... :?
Feel free to drop by my house, then :)
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Re: How do you know you've been a Volley for too long...

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Bigfella78 wrote:When your sitting on the bus on your way to work, looking at a vacant overgrown block of land planning out how you would go about doing a controlled burn... :?


Anyone else been in the bridage too long?
i want to join the vollies but iv got too much stuff on atm
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Another one

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You know you've been a vollie too long :

When you're talking on the phone and when you've finished speaking you say "Over".
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OMG i did the but it was over a PA system at work, thank god no one listens to anything that comes over the PA system at work aside from animal noises and sound effects... but needless to say i felt like a tool for a while afterwards...
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Another one

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LOL

You know you've been a vollie too long :

When you've got a bumper sticker on your car saying:- "My other vehicle is a Scania!"
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Re: Another one

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Kevlar wrote:LOL

You know you've been a vollie too long :

When you've got a bumper sticker on your car saying:- "My other vehicle is a Scania!"
Wow which volunteer brigades have scanias?
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Re: Another one

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Toottoot wrote:
Kevlar wrote:LOL

You know you've been a vollie too long :

When you've got a bumper sticker on your car saying:- "My other vehicle is a Scania!"
Wow which volunteer brigades have scanias?
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Post by Kevlar »

They're a great vehicle for the majoity of calls but in an incident like the current Zig Zag fire the FWD capabilty of the 3.4, 2.4 etc really make a difference.
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