Sandwick
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Sandwick Retained Station Brakefield Road SANDWICK Shetland ZE2 9HJ Current complement: 13 |
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| The Sandwick Unit, formally of the Northern Fire Brigade became part of the Highland and
Islands Fire Brigade in 1983 , the Unit, which is sited in Sandwick, currently has a Mercedes 310D
Light Fire Appliance (Callsign Charlie 37 ) , which has a Godiva Pump. The Unit which was upgraded
in July 2003 to BA status (Breathing Apparatus ), and is currently manned by 13 Firefighters.
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The Unit trains weekly on a Tuesday evening and as of 2002/2003 all new Firefighters must
attend a 4 day Fire Safety Course at the Fire and Rescue Service Training School in
Invergordon. In addition Firefighters must now attend a 5 day BA course at the Training School.
Firefighters are First Aid trained as well as carrying out Response Driving and Road Traffic
Incident training . Sub Officers and Leading Firefighters also attend officer training at Gullane,
the Scottish Fire Services College.
The crew members are currently:
Sub Officer Brian Gifford
Leading Firefighter Stuart Jamieson
Leading Firefighter Michael Anderson
Firefighter Raymond Jamieson
Firefighter Leslie Smith
Firefighter Leonard Christie
Firefighter Tom Nicolson
Firefighter Neil Jamieson
Firefighter Duncan Macgregor
Firefighter John Rankin
Firefighter Adam Chadwick
Firefighter Rae Simpson
Firefighter Mark Fountain
Sandwick have their own website which can be found at
http://www.webspawner.com/users/sandwickfb/index.html