The West Sussex Fire & Rescue Service can offer you a satisfying, exciting and varied career. The role of the Fire Service has changed considerably in the last five years and the role within the community has had to change to reflect the new demands made on the Service.  The firefighter is now required to be even more adaptable than previously. In addition to fulfilling the traditional role of dealing with fires in all types of premises and a variety of Special Service Calls, which include incidents such as entrapment of persons at road traffic collisions, chemical emergencies, flooding and other natural disasters. The firefighter today is required to switch from this reactive role to a more preventative role, which involves the education of our communities about the hazards presented by fire. A Retained Firefighter is a person who may already have a full time job, lives or works within 4 minutes of a Fire Station in West Sussex and who is trained and available to take on this additional role.