Brian C. Rushton

I served 5 years as a fireman with Liverpool Fire Brigade in the latter half of the Sixties, then 2 years with Salisbury Fire Brigade in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) which forms the main topic of my book. I thought it needed to be written because it was such a different world, as I saw it in those days. At approximately 24,000 words it is a fairly slim book, but I've resisted the temptation to pad it out by fictionalising some of it, partly because I haven't the imagination for fiction, but mainly as this would have destroyed the book's integrity and relevance.

The final 35 years of my working life were spent with Hereford & Worcester FRS as a firefighter in the latter half of the Seventies, the Eighties and Nineties, then as a breathing apparatus technician through the Noughties.