It was no emergency, it was a great show!

On Saturday 17th July the Fire Station opened it’s doors for the third time to show off all the emergency services under one roof.

On it’s third anniversary, the Emergency Services Open Day was a bigger success than last year with hundreds of people coming along to experience all the great demostrations, gadgets and fun things to do. This year the road was closed to make it a bigger area for the public to roam around in. Demonstrations included the rescue of a car crash victim, a rescue of a man who climbed down a building to get his balloon and ended up being stuck, a home fire awareness demonstration and of course, the exciting dog demonstration.

We were fortunate enough to bump into Mayor Lee Burke and Mayoress Ali Burke who spoke to us about the importance of awareness and educating the public on the hazards of fire and many other dangerous causes of risk. We also got to speak to Andrew Huntley who worked tirelessly to organise this event in conjunction with the other emergency services. We also met Darren Seymour, a firefighter from Worthing who came along to promote their football awareness campaign which they hold in the schools. We spoke to lots of wonderful people so please watch the videos to see what they had to say and there is plenty more for you to view. Enjoy! (May we add the videos are not the greatest, but we are striving to make it alot better for you. We ask for your patience while getting it just right).

We here at Crawley Happy Times would like to thank Andrew Huntley for the kind invitation and to congratulate everyone involved for putting on yet another superb community event. We look forward to next year.

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