The 13- to 19-year-olds were members of the 99th and 100th teams to complete the brigade's Local Intervention Fire Education scheme, which 1,000 young people have participated in since 2002. The scheme, which gives participants the chance to learn firefighting skills alongside real firefighters, began as a way to prevent attacks on fire crews. Now teenagers at risk of offending, as well as victims of crime and young people who lack motivation, take part.
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