MINEWORKER Simon Newcombe has just returned home from a night-shift at the pit when the alerter in his pocket beats out an urgent tattoo, and within minutes, he is behind the wheel of a huge Scania fire engine. Simon a retained fireman, is a crew manager at the market town of Shirebrook's Fire Station in Derbyshire, which is manned by a 12-strong team of local men. All are employed full-time elsewhere but drop everything at a minute's notice to help save lives and property.
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