Congratulations to Rick Ewins who last week got voted into his new position as Senior Firefighter 3 And Lachlan Ophof who was Promoted to Senior Firefighter 2. Good luck in your new positions.

Congratulations to Firefighter Brady Starfield who till last week was Aldinga Beach CFS Senior Firefighter 2, Brady has now been promoted to Deputy Group Officer 2. Brady will still be a firefighter for Aldinga Beach when he gets the chance to respond. Congrats to Brady and good luck in the future.

A Big thank you to everyone that donated to the guys and girls in yellow you helped raise over $1300 for equipment for Aldinga Beach CFS. It was a good day all round with lots of the little ones have a squirt of water on the hose and getting to have a look over the truck. Thanks to the Firefighter that volunteered there time to help fund raise.

Today was jammed back of excitement in Aldinga today as a heap of business opened their doors to the public so they could have a look around. Aldinga Beach CFS was the same we opened the doors at 11am for the public to bring thier kids down and have a look at the trucks, squirt some water, see lots of pictures, get some information on the CFS, see Smokey the Koala and mess around with the sirens on the trucks. It was good to see so many people from the community turn out and have some fun. The public also got to see us in action when our pagers dropped and we had to rush of to a car accident. Photos from the day will be uploaded to our gallery for all to look at. if you took some photos and would like them on the website you can upload them yourself via the gallery. Big thanks to all the volunteers that helped put today together.

Aldinga has just had its 2009 Annual General Meeting (AGM) this year we voted on new officer positions it was a fairly length meeting with someone special guest including David Przibilla (Kyeema Group Officer) Jeff Hockley (Deputy Group Officer) Richard Brooks (Sellicks CFS Captain) a big congrats to David Lee who took out this years Peter Sutton Fire Fighter Of The Year award. also a big congrats to the new Officers who take over the roles on the 1st of September 2009, Luke Trewartha is our new Captain Richard Davis new Lieutenant 1, Michael Smale new Lieutenant 2, Daniel Tinker new Lieutenant 3, Tanya Norman new Senior Firefighter 1, Brady Starfield new Senior Firefighter 2, Lochlan Ophof new Senior Firefighter 3. May the next year be as good as the last.

Congratulations to Dean Norman who has moved from Captain to Group Officer, Andrew Ridington who has moved from Lieutenant 1 to Deputy Group Officer. Also a congratulations to Rick Ewins who has been elected Group Communications Officer, Sue Schmitke who was elected Group Logistics Officer and Richard Davis who was elected Group Cadet co-ordinator Good Luck to them all.

Congratulations to Dean and Tanya Norman who have both been awarded their National Medal for 15 years of diligent service to the Country Fire Service.  The National Medal recognizes long and diligent service by members of recognized organizations that help the community during times of crisis. The National Medal is Australia’s most awarded civilian medal. In the last year Brady Starfield and Andrew Ridington have also recived their National Medals

Our Station has recently purchased state of the art stabilization equipment for our rescue appliance, which will help make a vehicle on its side or roof to become more stable for our crews to work with. if you would like to know how it works click on this article.

Thanks to everyone that donated their cans and bottle on the 5th of April for the CFS Bottle run Fundraiser you have all helped us raise $420 which will help with new equipment to help protect the community, so thank you all so much. if we missed your house or you want to donate your cans and bottles you can donate any Wednesday or Thursday night between 7pm and 9pm remember it all helps.

Have you seen us at a Fire Call and taken some cool photos, Now you can upload them to the web simply CLICK HERE! and you will take you to our gallery where your photos will be approved and placed in our public photo album.