They could be doing the school run or in the middle of lambing, but when their pager goes off volunteer and retained firefighters across Scotland drop everything.

In an average time of five to eight minutes, they can respond to building fires, road accidents, wildfires and medical emergencies.

In many remote and rural communities teams of these highly-trained volunteers could be the difference between life

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