All Fired Up - Audio Book

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Read by Dean Williamson. In the late 1970s in rural Shropshire, eighteen-year-old Malcolm Castle became a fireman so he could rush into burning buildings to save fair damsels in distress. He didn't realise he would also be jumping into slurry pits & rivers to rescue cows, horses & any number of other unfortunate animals. Nothing about the country fire service was quite what Malcolm expected when he joined the watch in Shrewsbury. Yes, he had to face the heart-stopping dramas & tragedies of farm & house fires, but as the newest member of the service he was also first in line when swans terrorised the high street
- & when a flock of owls got stuck on the roof of his local pub. This was a time when crews tackled fires wearing plastic leggings, plastic gloves & cork hats covered in highly flammable gloss paint, & his early days on the service, in the late 1970s & early 80s, were eventful to say the least. Funny, moving & gloriously nostalgic, All Fired Up paints a unique portrait of rural Britain
- & shows just how surprising a fireman's life can be.