What's in it for me?
Often when people talk about community groups, we hear a lot about how they benefit the community, how nice it is to help out etc etc, but nowdays, with many people living busy lives, with demands from work, family, social life and other activities, why would you want to join something else that will take up time, just because to someone, somewhere, thought it sounded like a nice thing to do?
How about "What's in it for me?"
There is a wide range of benefits available to the individual who joins the CFS.
CFS is also an actvity the whole family can get involved with. Have you got teenagers? Want to do something together, but playing Monoploy or beach cricket not quite enough anymore. Try CFS!
Some of the benefits include:
- Learning how to deal with a wide range of emergencies
- Undertaking Nationally Accredited training courses, with no monetary cost to you
- Undertake First Aid Course at no monetary cost to you
- For those in Year 11 & 12, the basic CFS training course can be credited towards SACE points
- Work on equipment you might not otherwise handle, let alone see (eg Breathing Apparatus, Hydraulic Rescue Equipment, big trucks and more)
- See places you would not otherwise travel to
- Meet lots of new people
- Have Fun
Having CFS experience may be helpful in obtaining a new job, make you look good in front of workmates, when you can competently deal with a small emergency in the work place, give you confidence to try new things.
While the community benefits from having a CFS brigade in its area, the benefits to an individual who joins the CFS can be limitless.
All CFS positions are open to men and women. You are not expected to know anything about firefighting, using pumps, driving trucks, squirting water, using GPS units, talking on a radio, lighting backburns, stabilising crashed vehicles, or other CFS skills - but if you join, you have the opportunity to learn all these skills, and many more!
If you already have some of these skills, we welcome you too.
But you have to take the first step, and join