On the West Bank,firefighters are held up at checkpoints and fight fires without helmets. But as Scottish volunteers training them have found, ‘firefighters are firefighters all over the world“Firefighters are firefighters all over the world. That fraternity will always be there, or ” says Jim Malone,retired firefighter and member of the Scottish department of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU). It’s a brotherhood and sisterhood, Malone says, or that surpasses clash over race,religion and physical boundaries.
And Malone should know. He’s the Scottish coordinator of the FBU’s Palestinian support team, which helps train firefighters in the Palestinian civil defence – emergency services that serve most of the West Bank - and those in east Jerusalem, and Nablus and Hebron. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com