Thank you for former firefighters

Two former firefighters have been thanked for their services to the community.

Dave Ginnety and Gordon Scott had been part of the retained Holbeach Fire Crew for 20 and 16 years respectively before their recent  retirements.

They both returned to the station on September 11 to be promoted with axes by station manager Mark Housam. Dave, a former Junior

Officer at Holbeach, bowed out on his 20th anniversary of becoming a firefighter in April.

“It’s a good thing to do and you feel you’re giving something back to the community,” said the 48-year-old who has his own company in Holbeach Home Maintenance and helps keep the Lancaster Bomber maintained in his spare time at the Lincolnshire Aviation Centre in East Kirkby.

“It’s been a way of paying something back to the community and help out where you can.

“In the job there’s a bit of satisfaction, a bit of excitement and a bit of everything.

“Doing it for 20 years is long enough and it’s good to get new, young people in with new ideas.

“It was brilliant to be presented with the axe.”

Holbeach has been just the beginning for Gordon Scott who after becoming a retained firefighter also took up a full time firefighter position in Cambridgeshire.

The 53-year-old grandfather of seven has moved into teaching driving fire engines and has had to give his
Holbeach position up.

He said: “It’s been very rewarding, challenging at times given you have to drop whatever you’re doing if you’re on call, but you do it because you’re making a difference.

“It’s been great and I’m  really excited now by my new role.”