The Fire Department is huge up here. There are several permanent staff plus a whole host of volunteers plus 6 guys called the WEP (Experience Programme)...not quite work experience as we would know it in England...less YTS more umph! Big White offers one of only 2 on mountain training schemes in British Columbia so these WEP positions are very sought after. They interview over 250 candidates for only 6 places, and then those that are successful arrive in September, train for 4 months before gaining valuable experience during the ski season. After they qualify they can pretty much take their pick of jobs, countrywide. As part of their training they have do a certain amount of hours as part of the community and spend a lot of time down at the school. During fire prevention week they were at school every day doing activities with the children and they had a draw to chose a child to spend the day with them at the Fire Hall and Lucy won! Poor WEP!
They came to pick her up from home...I didn't know which day so for a week we had to be ready just in case...I didn't want to be caught in my Pyjamas!
Lucy arriving at school in the fire truck
with the sirens on full blast.
Just after this picture was taken Lucy said 'My bag is soooo heavy'....so in the next picture.....
They then came and picked her up to take her out for lunch and then she spent the afternoon at the Fire Hall telling them all what to do...I gather they had to do lots of press ups!! You can tell by the grin on her face that she had a great time (and so did they!)
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