Two Whanganui recruits have joined Fire and Emergency New Zealand as career firefighters.
Twenty-one recruits from across the country graduated from a 12-week recruit course at a ceremony on Thursday at the Fire and Emergency National Training Centre in Rotorua.
Among the graduates were Whanganui's Simon Dibben and Andy Gillies.
Throughout their three-month training course, they learned the basics of being a firefighter. This included learning how to fight fires, how to extract people trapped in cars and how to manage hazardous substances.
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