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July 6th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Victoria’s Country Fire Authority (CFA) must shut down its Fiskville training site after it repeatedly covered up contaminated water levels there, the firefighters’ union says.
The United Firefighters Union (UFU) wants a judicial inquiry into what it says is a “hideous cover-up” by the CFA, with the union saying water used for the site’s training exercises has been found to contain high levels of toxins and bacteria since 2000.
“Firefighters are inevitably splashed by this contaminated water, and inhale or swallow foam and water,” UFU secretary Peter Marshall told reporters on Friday.
Dozens of full-time and volunteer firefighters had complained of suffering gastric illnesses, rashes and lesions since coming into contact with the water, containing high levels of E.coli and antibiotic-resistant bacteria in recent years, he said.
The CFA on Wednesday said while interim testing at the Fiskville site showed the water used in training was in a good state, it is using a mains water hydrant for training and recruits will move to another site until final test results arrive.
But Mr Marshall said the testing was misleading as it only occurred once a pumping pit had been drained and replaced with fresh mains water.
“That’s the same as me asking someone else to do a urine test to see if I’m contaminated,” he said.
Asked if the site should be shut, Mr Marshall replied: “My view is yes … it needs to be closed.”
Veteran firefighter and instructor Mick Tisbury says he feels guilty for telling trainees for years that Fiskville’s water was safe based on CFA advice.
“I feel like a liar. I feel guilty that I’ve exposed those candidates to that,” he told reporters.
The CFA denies a cover-up, saying Fiskville’s training water is tested monthly, and any abnormally high detected levels of a given substance is treated promptly.
“There’s no cover-up,” CFA media coordinator Gerard Scholten told AAP.
“(If tests show contamination) we don’t throw our hands up and say `oh well, carry on’, we take the water sources offline and we treat it.”
Mr Scholten said the CFA had not received any reports from firefighters about illnesses potentially linked to their training, but said the authority would act on the results of the tests it had ordered in response to fears about the water’s safety.
Shutting down Fiskville is “simply not an option” owing to the needs of Victoria’s emergency services, and the CFA was determined to restore confidence in the site, he said.
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