Hi Luke, I have been in the Fire Service for 25 years now and have to say for the most it's been great. When I joined the old guy's used to say how thing's had changed since they started. Well now it's my turn, it is the kind of job that moves with the times, we now train for many things. The average Firefighter is now trained to fight fires, casualty care, road traffic accidents, chemical incident, water rescue and line rescue, animal rescue and I don't mean cat's. We also have specialist teams trained to a higher standard in these areas and then we are all trained for the modern threat of terrorism.
We have a laugh but we also see some bad things, we don't play snooker or dart's all day as some would like to believe times are changing in the Public services but I can honestly say my time has been enjoyable, always something different.