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Highlands pose ‘severely unique challenges’ for Inverness fire station
Highland News & Media
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20/08/2024
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Obviously within the SFRS we've got a multitude of challenges that we face every day regarding
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climate challenges, water rescues, we've also got the issues with the amount of cars on
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the road in regards to road traffic issues. However, in the Highlands these challenges
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can be severely unique in regards to the area, the vast area that we've got to cover.
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Burness is quite a unique station, we're the only whole time station in the Highlands.
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The rest of the stations are retained so we rely heavily on our retained colleagues to
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help us out, keeping up our training, making sure we're at our best to respond when the
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community needs us. But also a big part of the role is engaging with our community through
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home fire safety visits through operational intelligence.
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A big part of our job is educating people because as much as it's very exciting for
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the firefighters going out to fire, we don't actually want those to happen in the first
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place, we want to prevent them. And we do that in a variety of different ways, so that
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could be going to schools for example and talking on various different subjects, not
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just fire safety, we do water safety, road safety, anti-social behaviour.
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Recruitment is a challenge all over the Highlands, especially with the Scottish Fire and Rescue
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Service because we rely heavily on a primary employer giving the time to the SFRS to let
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a firefighter away from their employment to potentially save a life in the local community.
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There is challenges but pride, the sense of achievement that you get every single day
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massively overweighs the challenges and hopefully with things like this, Firefighter for a Day
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shows that the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service is a great opportunity for everyone.
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