Find out how Fire Fighters Charity has supported service users across the UK and how you can share your story with the fire community. Click categories or regions below to filter the list of stories.
When London firefighter Kieran Egan's son needed extensive surgery to remove tumours from his ears, the charity provided financial support so travel and accommodation could be one less thing to worry about. Six months ago, Berkshire firefighter Jamie Reeve's brother was hurt in an incident and remains in a critical condition in hospital. In the months that followed, our Welfare Services team have supported the family as they come to terms with their uncertain future. And when the coronavirus threatened their wedding day, Jamie and his partner, Charlotte, took matters into their own hands and got married in their back garden, just the two of them. After her firefighter husband passed away suddenly in April, panic attacks were ruining Suzanne Constable's life. She agreed to contact the charity and see what they could do for her, but she had no idea just how much she would take away from her week at Marine Court. Emma Hughes has just become our first Charity Ambassador, a new voluntary role that aims to increase awareness of Fire Fighters Charity. And it's all in memory of her dad, Graham, a firefighter with Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue, who passed away in 2003. A restorative stay at our centre in Penrith was the perfect halfway house for Jane and Charlie McAllister to reconnect as a couple, following Jane's cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Kieran: “I could rely on the charity while my family relied on me”
Jamie: “This was our torch to hold up against the darkness.”
Suzanne: “Panic attacks were getting in the way of my grief.”
Emma: “I just thought ‘I need to be part of this’.”
Jane: “We reconnected as a couple, rather than a couple living with cancer”
