Publisher's Synopsis
Eighteen-year-old Malcolm Castle became a fireman so he could save fair damsels in distress. He didn't realise he would also be jumping into slurry pits to rescue cows, horses and any number of other unfortunate animals. Nothing was quite what Malcolm expected when he joined the watch in Shrewsbury. Yes, he had to face the heart-stopping dramas of farm and house fires. But as the newest member of the service he was also first in line when swans terrorised the high street and when a sheepdog got his head caught in a fence. His early days in the brigade in the late 1970s and early 80s was a time when crews tackled fires wearing plastic leggings and gloves and cork hats covered in gloss paint.
