Fire Service job reviews

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• Best thing

  Very rewarding helping others in time of need
  .

  Worst thing

  Miss my family when away

  10

  Crew manager at Fire Service, April 2026

• Best thing

  Everything

  Worst thing

  We see things that are difficult to see and un-see

  10

  Firefighter at Fire Service, January 2026

• Best thing

  Everything

  Worst thing

  Seeing the things you see

  7.8

  Employee at Fire Service, January 2026

• Best thing

  The unknown

  Worst thing

  See things your cant unsee

  7.3

  Firefighter at Fire Service, May 2025

• Best thing

  Travelling across the country to a wide variety of customers keeping the job from feeling stale. I'm never chased or pestered about work completion times or ETA's. I work in a pair, which makes the commuting less tedious and having a partner helps get the work done more efficiently. I'm also able to use the company van for personal mileage at a reasonable rate. I get a £5 lunch allowance per day.

  Worst thing

  Management are disorganised and usually have conflicting interests. There's no HR as it's a small firm so the managers and boss speak very freely often making comments they wouldn't get away with in larger companies. I've been promised pay rises that never came to fruition. I've been promised extra training that never came to fruition.

  6.7

  Service engineer at Fire Service, July 2024

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• Best thing

  The job it’s self

  Worst thing

  The people

  8.5

  Vehicle technician at Fire Service, January 2024

• Best thing

  Time off

  Worst thing

  Being a trainee

  6.4

  Firefighter at Fire Service, January 2024

• Best thing

  Working as a team, the hours worked and holidays

  Worst thing

  Upper management and none firefighting staff who look down on firefighters and and treat them disrespectfully.

  9.0

  Firefighter at Fire Service, August 2023

• Best thing

  Helping people, working with good people.

  Worst thing

  The role can be stressful and helping people who are in a terrible situation can leave a toll on occasion

  9.3

  Firefighter at Fire Service, July 2023

• Best thing

  Team work

  Worst thing

  Never know when the next call is

  7.8

  Firefighter at Fire Service, June 2023

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• Best thing

  Team spirit, excitement, helping others

  Worst thing

  Can be very hard work, and dirty

  9.8

  Firefighter at Fire Service, June 2023

• Best thing

  Feeling like you are part of an important machine doing good for the public

  Worst thing

  Management

  6.1

  Service engineer at Fire Service, May 2023

• Best thing

  Freedom with the 4 days off to create more business.

  Worst thing

  People I deal with.

  8.9

  Firefighter at Fire Service, April 2023

• Best thing

  The blokes

  Worst thing

  Under manned and over worked, no real chance for time off except good will of other blokes. Management

  5.5

  Firefighter at Fire Service, January 2023

• Best thing

  Saving people

  Worst thing

  What we see

  6.7

  Employee at Fire Service, November 2022

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• Best thing

  Bonding time with colleagues
  Everyday is different

  Worst thing

  The support is lacking
  Too much to do in such little time
  Overworked

  7.8

  Firefighter at Fire Service, October 2022

• Best thing

  The pay
  The responsibility
  The joy in being able to help
  The family unit you work day and night with

  Worst thing

  Rude people when helping them

  9.9

  Firefighter at Fire Service, July 2022

• Best thing

  The people you work with.

  Worst thing

  Seeing some bad sights.

  10

  Firefighter at Fire Service, May 2022

• Best thing

  Getting to help people
  Work in a team
  Shift pattern

  Worst thing

  Senior managers
  Training staff conflicting with information and moving goal posts
  Pay

  9.7

  Firefighter at Fire Service, May 2022

• Best thing

  Every day is different

  Worst thing

  Never get Xmas off or special occasions

  3.0

  Firefighter at Fire Service, June 2021

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• Best thing

  Shift pattern and banter

  Worst thing

  Senior managers

  7.5

  Firefighter at Fire Service, June 2021

• Best thing

  I get to help people
  My team are like family
  I look forwards to going to work

  Worst thing

  When someone dies, they lose loved ones or their property is destroyed
  The salary is poor

  9.9

  Firefighter at Fire Service, June 2021

• Best thing

  Helping people

  Worst thing

  Seeing bad injuries

  10

  Firefighter at Fire Service, April 2021

• Best thing

  Extremely rewarding work

  Worst thing

  Low pay

  9.8

  Firefighter at Fire Service, April 2021

• Best thing

  Fixing front line equipment

  Worst thing

  Occasionally work load gets abit manic

  9.9

  Employee at Fire Service, April 2021

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• Best thing

  Amazing people, amazing place to work.

  Worst thing

  Things/people suffer and that’s why we’re here to help. The fact people suffer is the worst part, but we do what we can to make things right.

  9.9

  Firefighter at Fire Service, March 2021

• Best thing

  Flexibility, the people I work with, rewarding job

  10

  Firefighter at Fire Service, March 2021

• Best thing

  Flexible, mostly good people to work with

  9.5

  Personal assistant at Fire Service, March 2021

• Best thing

  Saving lives
  Fighting fires

  Worst thing

  Death and deverstation

  9.5

  Firefighter at Fire Service, March 2021

• Best thing

  We get to go to emergency’s and put out fires and as well as make friends with your crew

  Worst thing

  Chores

  9.2

  Firefighter at Fire Service, February 2021

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• Best thing

  Good team, good shift pattern, money not bad.

  Worst thing

  Other people undermining what we do

  9.9

  Employee at Fire Service, January 2021

• Best thing

  Every day is different

  Worst thing

  Dealing with traumatic incidents

  9.8

  Firefighter at Fire Service, January 2021

• Best thing

  Work life balance, interesting work

  Worst thing

  Poor pay for the work we do. Older member discriminate younger members

  9.9

  Firefighter at Fire Service, January 2021

• Best thing

  I joined to use my skills to help people and I still really enjoy that aspect of the job. It's a great feeling when you've just rescued someone, saved their home or cut them from their car and handed them safely over to paramedics. It's what I joined to do

  Worst thing

  The pay isn't enough to support a family or even get a mortgage here in the south east. The take home pay is around £1900 per month. Can be around £2000 if you're on duty on a bank holiday or pick up a shout at the end of a couple of shifts, but that's rare. If you have children you will most certainly need to take on a second job on your off duty days which in turn means you are constantly exhausted.
  It did come with the benefit of a very good pension to compensate for the poor pay, but the government have now taken that away and replaced it with one that pays far less and probably not worth signing up to.
  If you do sign up for it, you'd need to work untill age 60 and do 40 years service for a full pension which would still be much much less than the previous pension and almost certainly unachievable.
  Management are constantly after more work and attack our conditions almost daily. To protect ourselves we have to really be on the ball and consider very carefully what is being asked of us. This has obviously lead to a less than happy work environment unfortunately.
  I don't want to tell people not to join, but be aware this job is being attacked constantly and probably isn't the job you think it is. It certainly isn't the job I joined at the start of my career

  3.0

  Firefighter at Fire Service, December 2020

• Best thing

  shift pattern

  Worst thing

  Dealing with some people

  8.7

  Firefighter at Fire Service, December 2020

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• Best thing

  Saving lives

  Worst thing

  Can’t book time off

  7.8

  Firefighter at Fire Service, December 2020

• Best thing

  Shift patterns and time off from work

  Worst thing

  pay is low and lots to learn

  9.9

  Employee at Fire Service, November 2020

• Best thing

  Working with a great set of people

  Worst thing

  The polltics

  6.4

  Firefighter at Fire Service, November 2020

• Best thing

  Working as a team

  Worst thing

  The jobs you go to

  9.4

  Firefighter at Fire Service, November 2020

• Best thing

  Different everyday.
  Good people.
  Helping others
  Shift pattern

  Worst thing

  Senior Management
  Salary
  Lack of respect

  7.8

  Watch commander at Fire Service, October 2020

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• Best thing

  The team

  Worst thing

  The organisation and night shifts

  4.5

  Firefighter at Fire Service, October 2020

• Best thing

  shift pattern

  Worst thing

  pay has not kept track with cost of living

  10

  Firefighter at Fire Service, October 2020

• Best thing

  Helping proole

  Worst thing

  Not getting recognised

  9.3

  Firefighter at Fire Service, October 2020

• Best thing

  No two days are the same

  Worst thing

  Shift work - nights

  9.7

  Employee at Fire Service, September 2020

• Best thing

  Shift pattern. Every day is different

  Worst thing

  Poor annual pay rises

  9.8

  Firefighter at Fire Service, August 2020

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• Best thing

  The people I work with

  Worst thing

  Upper management

  5.5

  Control room operator at Fire Service, August 2020

• Best thing

  Helping people and firefighting

  Worst thing

  Dead people

  9.0

  Firefighter at Fire Service, June 2020