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All Fired Up

Eighteen-year-old Malcolm Castle became a fireman so he could rush into burning buildings to save fair damsels in distress. He didnt realise he would also be jumping into slurry pits to rescue cows horses and 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 and tragedies of farm and house fires. But as the newest member of the service he was also first in line when swans began to terrorise the high street when a sheepdog got his head caught in a broken fence panel - and when a flock of owls got stuck on the roof of his local pub. His early days in the brigade in the late 1970s and early 80s was a time when crews tackled fires wearing plastic
leggings plastic gloves and cork hats covered in highly flammable gloss paint. Funny moving and gloriously nostalgic ALL FIRED UP paints a unique portrait of rural Britain - and shows just how surprising a firemans life can be.
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Eighteen-year-old Malcolm Castle became a fireman so he could rush into burning buildings to save fair damsels in distress. He didnt realise he would also be jumping into slurry pits 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 began to terrorise the high street when a sheepdog got his head caught in a broken fence panel
- & when a flock of owls got stuck on the roof of his local pub. His early days in the brigade in the late 1970s & early 80s was a time when crews tackled fires wearing plastic leggings plastic gloves & cork hats covered in highly flammable gloss paint. Funny moving & gloriously nostalgic ALL FIRED UP paints a unique portrait of rural Britain
- & shows just how surprising a firemans life can be.

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Cork - A county in Ireland
Cork - A natural product from the Cork Oak tree
Plastic - A generic term for a synthetic product used in the manufacture of products
Watch - A small clock designed to be worn on a person
Hats - An Item of clothing worn on the head for fashion and warmth
Year - The time it takes the planet earth to orbit the sun. This takes around 365.25 days.
Heart - An organ that pumps blood around the body. Usually related to love.
Fire - the release of energy through heat and light.
Nostalgic - A memory for familiar things and wanting to get it back.
Year - 365 days (366 days in a leap year), the time taken for planet earth to make one full revolution around the sun.
Head - The upper part of a body typically separated by the neck.

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