Dorchester crews were called to 12 incidents last week.

These included seven alarms, one incident of flooding, to assist the ambulance service, one road traffic collision, to provide standby cover in Weymouth and one residential fire.

The crew is still on the look-out for people to join the station as on-call firefighters.

On-call firefighters are paid professionals, who do the same work as their wholetime colleagues. Unlike wholetime firefighters, they are not based at the station but have other jobs and commitments, responding to emergencies only when their alerter goes off.

On-call firefighters are usually contracted for between 40 to 12o hours of cover per week, but this can vary. Between them, each fire station team will provide cover for weekdays, evenings, nights and weekends.

To find out more, visit dwfire.org.uk