Do you work with a specific community or organization, or just take opportunities as they come up?
What type of volunteer work do you like to do? Do you like the stuff where you are just a warm body - someone to hold a sign or greet people? Or more involved tasks that are more like professional work? What about shudders door knocking?
Volunteer firefighter.
Drive the 3000L truck or 1000L tender. Run hoses to hydrant. Use mounted water cannon, or run hoses out. Put out, scrub, bush, and vehicle fires. Rescue puppies from drains.
Getting plenty of training, learning lots of different equipment, have a good team currently.
Eg. Last week at training, I tried out the ‘Hot Stick’ high-voltage detector. For finding live wires, beeps when high current closeby.
Similar to this one.
That sound like so much fun!
It really is.
I felt like I knew small fires pretty well, previously.
It is an eye-opener to learn more about large fire behaviour, backburning, and fire suppression methods.
Things like, a leaf-blower can be used on slow moving grass fires to blow them out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk_vBb7ZN-s