myke
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Registered: 7th Feb 01
Location: High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
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I have a mate who was a fireman for 6months or so. The training course was excellent from the sounds of it, all be it very hard work, but when it came to the job, there was far too much sitting around waiting and not enough actual work to be done, that it drove him mad.
He was posted at the busiest station in Bucks, but said there was only a fire to go to once or twice a week. The rest of the call outs were AFA's going off willy nilly and needing to be followed up, or reports of smoke sightings from the public, which almost always amounted to nothing.
There was so much waiting around between shouts that he got the hump and quit after re-assessing his options whilst in hospital (non-work related).
Think he was on £26k after the qualification.
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foxyk8t
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Registered: 8th Jun 07
Location: Truro - Cornwall
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Did anyone used to watch Londons Burning a few years ago when it was on tv, i used to like that?
On a serious note tho as good as the job is they are making alot of stations part time now so i guess it would be quite hard to get a full time posting 
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SAL
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Registered: 19th Dec 05
Location: Radlett, Hertfordshire
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Written test...ant your fucked allready 
Fitness test
Grip test
Ladder test
BA test
Beep test
Medical
Interie
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Ash_EP3
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Registered: 15th May 07
Location: Melksham, Wiltshire
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Apparently the pension is very very good!
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antmashed
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Registered: 2nd Aug 06
Location: Hertford
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quote:
Originally posted by Stavs
Written test...ant your fucked allready
Fitness test
Grip test
Ladder test
BA test
Beep test
Medical
Interie
why am i fucked 
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Superlite Ltd.
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Registered: 9th Jan 07
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What is a grip test?
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Baskey
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Registered: 31st May 06
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very hard, took my mate like 3 times and hes fit, healthy, clever etc. Its very rewarding but alot of it nowadays is putting out car fires on council estates, then getting rocks chucked at you by the youth's
[Edited on 21-04-2008 by Baskey]
[Edited on 21-04-2008 by Baskey]
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antmashed
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Registered: 2nd Aug 06
Location: Hertford
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just powerhose the little bastards 
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Bart
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Registered: 19th Aug 02
Location: Midsomer Norton, Bristol Avon
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what about a part time firemen beside having an ordinary job, is the training still intense?
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baza31
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Registered: 19th Apr 03
Location: yorkshire
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its impossible to get in. I tried for about a year and there is never any recruiting going on. I know a fireman and they have it cushty. If you get it into your head that these things happen and your doing your best to change or help the situation youll be reet.
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antmashed
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Registered: 2nd Aug 06
Location: Hertford
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Originally posted by baza31
its impossible to get in.
anything is possible my freind 
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mattk
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Registered: 27th Feb 06
Location: St. Helens
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go into the army and end some lives instead of saving them
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antmashed
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Location: Hertford
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yeh that was plan b
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Timbaland
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Registered: 20th Jan 07
Location: Glasgow
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quote:
Originally posted by baza31
its impossible to get in.
Is it really?
My 2 cousins have got into the fire brigade in the last year along with a guy in my street. It not impossible, You just really really really really really have to show determination.
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jonnysri
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Registered: 16th Jun 05
Location: Leeds (Ilkley)
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quote:
Originally posted by Bart
what about a part time firemen beside having an ordinary job, is the training still intense?
the training is exactly the same between wholetime and retained. ive been retained for 2 years whilst having another job. its a time constraint some of the time but worth it. the recruitment for retained is ongoing but wholetime recruitment only happens once a year if that, and it all depends on vancancies. i applied 3 times before getting accepted. you just have to perseveire with it
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All Torque
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Registered: 17th Nov 05
Location: Milton Keynes Drives: Ford Focus TDCi
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A friend of mine is a Fire Fighter, doesn't do too much though... lots of waiting around.
He did however go to a car crash the other day where the guy who crashed was so drunk and drugged up that after he crashed into a tree and then another car he tried to run away... on two broken ankles 
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jonnysri
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Registered: 16th Jun 05
Location: Leeds (Ilkley)
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it may be quiet sometimes, but trust me when the jobs come, they come thick and fast
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