Georgina Randall: Firefighter, Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service
One day I picked up the telephone. I called the station, and they asked me to pop in to see them. I was 5ft 4 (and a half, which is always important to add) and less than nine stone and I was about to walk into a fire station to tell one of those serious-faced firefighters that I wanted to be a firefighter. Surely they would just laugh at me.
But they didn’t. And the weren’t serious-faced at all. They were just people like you and me. And they thought I could do it too! I passed and became an on-call firefighter at my local station.
From the very first moment of my training course. I loved it – the job itself, the people, the teamwork, the sense of satisfaction. I had never known anything like it and I couldn’t imagine a better job.