Alerter
All you ever wanted to know about
being a retained FireFighter in Suffolk

So my alerter does work then!

Today, after 10 days without one, we get a shout…

Now, don’t get me wrong. I don’t wish harm, distress or anything else on the good folks of Lowestoft (well some I might…) but I’m like a bear with a sore head if we don’t get shouts.

I don’t ask for much. It doesn’t have to be a major catastrophe, I’m not expecting half of Lowestoft to go up in flames, just something to get the heart pumping and the adrenaline flowing.

And, as always, when my alerter goes off after such a long time it nearly causes heart failure! Maybe we’ll pick up a few jobs now, maybe the little oiks that play with matches will work out how to light them, maybe it will be another 10 days before the next shout…

Let’s wait, and wait, and wait and see!

– IAN CARTER (www.accessiblewebsites.co.uk)

www.alerter.co.uk