Billingshurst Fire Station: Supporting the Air Ambulance Service

Fire fighters raise money for Air Ambulance Service

In January, some of the crew ran 31 miles in 31 days! After some final donations during February, we are pleased to announce that we raised over £1200 for our chosen charity, The Air Ambulance Service.

The Air Ambulance is operated purely through donations; it is not government funded. We work very closely with the doctors who arrive off the Air Ambulance and see hands-on the amazing life changing work they do when arriving at any incident. They take complete control of everything, and really do make a difference. It’s really important that this service continues, so we are glad so many people took on this challenge to raise money for them. Great work everyone.

Now that the vaccination has started to roll out across the county, and cases dropping because of the third lockdown, we are hopeful that life will get back to normal on station. We will try and get at least one charity event in the calendar this year for you all to attend. It will likely be a charity car wash in September. Watch this space.

The last few months have been a bit up and down for calls on station. We started the year very busy, averaging at least a call a day! Towards the end of Feb it slowed down, and March started to pick up again, and that’s how it goes. You just never know when the next call is. Thanks again to all the crew who are on call during the day, evenings and weekends.

We are very much looking forward to some of the restrictions being lifted during this month, so keep up the good work everyone, stay safe, we are nearly at the end of it and can get back to normal life very soon. Twitter: @Station49Fire Facebook: Billingshurst Fire Station Dan Game, Billingshurst Fire Station

Photo: these members of the crew ran 31 miles in 31 days to help raise over £1200 for The Air Ambulance Service

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