Aylesbury Fire Station is looking to expand its On-Call firefighting team and is keen to hear from you
On-Call Firefighters are professional firefighters and receive payment for the time they provide, responding to incidents, training and undertaking community safety activities.
But unlike their shift colleagues, the Aylesbury On-Call crew usually respond from their homes or workplaces on a call-by-call basis. They are local people who live, or work, in the Aylesbury area.
Aylesbury’s On-Call crew can be called on to provide additional cover to Aylesbury and its neighbouring areas during incident response or when the day crew is busy.
Aylesbury Fire Station is located in Stocklake. It is one of the service’s shift crewed stations. This means it has four watches (Red, Green, White and Blue) whose members use the fire station as a base to provide full-time fire cover, 24/7 for Aylesbury and the surrounding villages.
The next On-Call Firefighter Awareness event takes place online on Wednesday 31st August 2022, where you’ll be able to find out more about this firefighting role. You can register for the event here: https://bucksfire.gov.uk/our-events/on-call-online-awareness-evening-31-august-2022/
Gav, who is 40-years-old, and who’s provided service to Buckinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service (BFRS) for around 20 years said: “Being an On-Call Firefighter in Aylesbury is great! I get to train with the wholetime crews, and experience lots of variety – both in terms of equipment and incidents.”
He added: “The training, skills, and friendships I’ve acquired over the last 20 years at BFRS have been invaluable to me in my personal life. Physically the role helps me to work on keeping my fitness levels up.”
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