Behind the scenes tour of real life working UK Fire Station

🚒 Station Manager Leigh Prior takes you behind the scenes on a tour of King's Lynn North fire station in Norfolk. 📹

This video was part of our first ever Virtual Open Day, and we want to thank everyone for watching along with us at home. We loved seeing all your comments and we can't wait to be able to welcome you back in person in the future.

[Thxmas_e]

Thankyou for your service helping everyone.

[davidmack]

very interesting..I'm a retired FF/paramedic from southern calif, and I find it fascinating to look how FD's from around the world operate.

[Ton]

Grate use full information
As am currently awaiting to join the fire service department lots of interesting things that can be taken in as a reminder to keep me updated! From Cumbria district.

[robnewman]

I use to watch Fireman Sam on video back in the 90s when I was Little Hallingbury Primary School kid.

[billlarrabee]

That is a nice setup. Here in the states most professional firefighters have very similar stations. The situation is very different for the volunteer stations. As you mentioned once, money is the allowable entity. Some of our volunteers are still working out of old buildings that were built 50 or more years ago and limit the size and numbers of vehicles. Plus our systems have become too sufisticated to allow some companies to meat the requirements. Overall most have done their very best to keep up. Yet everyday more requirements keep the pressure on. Great video!

[thehighwaycowboy]

I am ex Firefighter from GMFRS. 90s And 00s. It used to be a great job years ago before all the rank structures changed. We were actually allowed to laugh and joke and would get through some of the traumatic events by playing silly pranks on eachother. We always got the job done. Nowadays everyone is a Micro Manager and grassing eachother up, end up on a disciplinary for the slightest things now . I was retired out on ill health as an Operational LFM

[ukjentperson]

0:20 Did I understand correctly that most of the firefighters do their work on a voluntary basis (at least in this city)?

Great video and interesting insight! And I would like to say thank you twice: On the one hand not to deactivate the comment function and on the other hand not to wear a covid mask during the video. Thanks!

Greetings from Germany

[WelshM]

Very informative and helpful video, thank you.

One question, why would you need to lift the car during an RTC as shown toward the end of the video. Thanks in advance

[pepperroni]

My Grandad was a fire fighter out of Kings Lynn

[jordanelliott]

This maybe a silly question but can u become a firefighter if u aren't a fan of heights or is something you would help a recruit get though?

[beany]

Big shout too all our fire fighter particularly safe

[samcree]

Do yous not keep your kit on the machine? In the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service they'd keep it on the pump...

[ashlyneverold]

I have a question
Have you ever had a fire in the station?

[alexr]

About your fire cadet programme how come lynn dont do one?

[roboman]

Me , 51 years old, bexleyheath , south east london, .., going to be a fire fighter ....YES old, buty want to know where i can be

[julianpatterson]

I’ve got FNG779K (the 1972-2000 King’s Lynn HP) tucked away in the dry. May get round to restoring it one day.

[danielfowles]

If 999 calls comes in you need live your voices outside ok have one

[DanielOrtegoUSA]

Unfortunately, most of these European fire department videos, seldom show the interior of their rigs. 🤷‍♂️

[firejam]

The pole drops will be taken away because your coping without using them

[baylorsmith]

So glad I’m a US firefighter. British fire service looks miserable.