Garelochhead Community Fire Station

20/08/2026

🔥 GARELOCHHEAD — WE NEED YOU! 🚒

Have you ever thought about becoming an On-Call Firefighter with the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service?

Garelochhead is one of the Service’s strategically important stations, providing a vital emergency response to the local community and surrounding areas. To maintain that response, we need people from the local community to step forward.

Being an On-Call Firefighter is about much more than fighting fires. You could be called upon to attend road traffic collisions, fires, rescues, flooding and other emergencies, helping people when they need it most.

Why become an On-Call Firefighter?

🔥 Make a genuine difference to your local community
🤝 Become part of a highly trained and supportive team
💪 Develop your fitness, confidence and resilience
🧠 Learn valuable skills including first aid, rescue and emergency response
📚 Receive full training — no previous firefighting experience is required
💷 Get paid for your training, availability and operational response
🚒 Gain skills and experience that can benefit you both personally and professionally
❤️ Most importantly, be there for your community when it matters most

Could you be eligible?

You generally need to:

✅ Be 18 or over
✅ Have the right to work in the UK
✅ Be able to reach Garelochhead Fire Station within the required response time
✅ Have the required level of fitness and meet the relevant medical/vision standards
✅ Be able to provide the required availability
✅ Be willing to undertake training and ongoing development

You don’t need to be a firefighter already. SFRS will train and support you throughout the process.

Being an On-Call Firefighter can fit around work, family and other commitments, making it an ideal opportunity for people who want to give something back while developing themselves.

Garelochhead needs people who are willing to step forward.

Could you be one of them?

🚒 Join the team. Protect your community. Make a difference.

12/07/2026

We are still looking for some sponsors for our charity event if any local companies/business wish to support our charity football match.

All money raised goes to the firefighters charity.

We are still looking for local businesses to sponsor:-

Match balls - £90 (match balls can be donated to another charity after the match of the companies/business choice)
Football pitch - £140

Any other donations would be much appreciated for our raffle as well, wether it be a bottle that’s been lying in your cupboard you no longer want or if you have a restaurant that could give a voucher?

Any donation would be very much appreciated!

Thank you to everyone who continuously supports our charity events!

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09/07/2026

We are looking to sell a football card to help raise funds that will go towards our charity football match on the 1st of August.

If anyone would like to buy a team or two please let me know!

No money will be collected until the card is sold, once all teams are sold we will then collect all money before we scratch the card!!

As always, we appreciate everyone’s support when we do these charity events!

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06/07/2026

We are recruiting at Garelochhead community fire station, if you wish to know more contact the station or visit us on a Thursday evening between 6pm & 9pm. We are currently low on numbers and are looking to change this.

- Are you over 18 & work/live close the Garelochhead community fire station?

- Do you want to learn new skills, broaden your horizons and protect your community?

- We’re recruiting On Call Firefighters from all walks of life, types of employment & backgrounds.

- Age isn’t a barrier - As long as you can pass the national test.

- On Call Firefighters are paid a monthly wage for their commitment, with additional payment for work and activities undertaken.

A great opportunity for anyone wishing to take on a new challenge. 🚒🚒

View details and apply for this retained role in Various Locations for Scottish Fire and Rescue with Scottish Fire and Rescue Service on myjobscotland

02/07/2026

Good afternoon all,

There’s been a lot of organising in the background with this event which will be the 3rd year in succession of it running.

Scottish fire and rescue v Capita fire and rescue, with Capita winning the last 2 outings we can only imagine SFRS will be out to put a stop to capitas dominance!

In the first two years we’ve raised a combined total of £3800 which all goes to the firefighters charity.

After this event, there will be refreshments at dumbuck bowling club. If anyone can get along and support this event we would really appreciate it!

Come along, watch a very competitive game and enjoy the day out which is suited for everyone!

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28/06/2026

A busy day for some of the crew from Garelochhead today!

0630 start to begin our trip up to Oban to carry out our tactical firefighting course.

With 6 crew members making the journey, it was an intense day with some high intense heat within the containers.

A lot of learning points were taken from the day which only benefits us by bettering our firefighting skills.

Some good photos and some questionable photos 😂🚒

03/05/2026

This weekend was an active weekend for our crew at Garelochhead community fire station.

On Friday evening we attended a chimney fire, luckily this was contained and extinguished very quickly and we were back to station within an hour.

Saturday afternoon, road traffic collision was our next call and fortunately nothing serious.

Saturday evening, a small fire in the open that the crew extinguished very quickly and we were on our way again.

Early hours of Sunday morning fire alarm sound, building inspected nothing identified and back on our way.

Being an on call firefighter isn’t just attending fires, as you can see from the weekend we’ve just had the incidents vary and no two jobs are the same. All outcomes from these incidents were positive ones.

Is this something you would be interested in being part of? Would you like to help make a difference and be there when called upon to help others?

If so, we are recruiting! Get in contact with the station or find the job application on myjobscotland.

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01/05/2026

Congratulations to Firefighter Robson on passing his ERD assessment this morning. Geoff has been on a one week course at our national training centre in cambuslang preparing for today.

This now allows Firefighter Robson to drive to emergency incidents under blue lights.

From all of the crew at the station, well done!

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30/04/2026

Extreme wildfire risk throughout the whole of Scotland, this remains in place until 2nd of May.

Everyone can play their part and prevent these wildfires, enjoy this very rare nice weather we are having, be responsible and avoid fires and disposable BBQs where possible.

26/04/2026

📟 Pager activated 📟

At 07:25 Garelochheads Rescue appliance was mobilised to a fire in the open along with appliances from neighbouring stations, This incident has been ongoing since yesterday afternoon.

A busy morning and afternoon ahead for our crew.

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