During the chaos of conflict, you will always find firefighters who stay within the war zone, not to engage in battle, but to protect lives and property. Fire-fighters in Ukraine are currently on the front line of this crisis, trying to protect their communities in the most difficult of situations. However, they are in desperate need of equipment to better protect themselves and their communities. FIRE AID and International Development has been working in Ukraine since 2012 alongside the Ukrainian Emergency Services. During this time, we have delivered 11 modern fire appliances, over 4,000 sets of fire-fighting PPE and other essential firefighting equipment, which during 2020 alone rescued over 300 people. Volunteer fire fighters from the UK have built strong professional and personal relationships with their fellow fire-fighters and are working to respond to their requests for help during the current crisis. In response to the Ukrainian Emergency Services request for equipment FIRE. 

We are Devon and Somerset wholetime recruits based at Plympton Fire Training Academy. We are doing a ladder climb on the 28th March to raise money for the firefighters in Ukraine. We will be attempting to climb the height of the tallest building in Ukraine as many times as possible. The tallest building is the Klovski Descent apartment building at 168m high, so that is 12 ladder climbs. If we climb the height of the Klovski building 52 times (737 ladder climbs) it will be the same height as Everest!