I’m Helen Rogers and I’m on Red Watch at Weston-super-Mare. I started back in May last year, that is when I started my training, and before that, I was self-employed as a clinical hypnotherapist and psychotherapist for the last ten years.
YES YOU CAN
Be a wholetime firefighter
Wholetime firefighter
Full time or Wholetime firefighters ensure our busiest fire stations are crewed 24 hours a day, seven days a week. As well as responding to everything from fires to road traffic collisions, they also spend a lot of time in working in the community to provide advice and education to help prevent emergencies happening in the first place. Find out more about the job below.
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Can I be a firefighter? Yes you can!
Firefighters are just ordinary people who do extraordinary things when they come to work. Meet some of our staff here and find out how they make a difference in their community and why being a firefighter is such a rewarding career with great prospects.
Joining the fire service is something I always wanted to do so I always kept tabs on the recruitment updates. They were recruiting whilst I was abroad. I applied for it, came back, and luckily enough I got it.
Joining Avon Fire & Rescue Service has fulfilled one of my life long ambitions and I can’t wait to get on to station and begin progressing my career.