Many of the crash fireman's duties included the normal domestic type of fire prevention and extinguisher checks for the whole airfield site but most of the time was at the crash bay area dealing with such things as aircraft with oxygen failure, candled chutes, hot brakes, barrier engagement, hydraulic failure etc, I remember sweeping the runway with the RAF 3 ton Bedford pulling the Sicard snow clearer and watching the two Derwent engines mounted on a frame and pushed along by a fuel bowser also blasting the heavy snow. What days they were. One of my favourite duties were standing by the Lightning's after an engine change and sitting in the T birds vacant seat and feeling good as the engine went into reheat. Some of the time taken in the crash bays were of course the cooking chores, however, on looking out of the window just as things were on the go, a Lightning would pass. Opposite our window were the Lightning's of TFF target facilities flight being F M1As. There were 3 in total, these were used  to carry out the roll of being a target chase aircraft for the operational squadrons to find and  carry out interceptions, The Lightning's were overall silver with yellow and black stripes near to the roundel, complete with the orange day glow in the shape of a cat.

Seeing lots of Lightning's every day was great, but it was a nice change to see the many visiting types that used to visit Wattisham i.e. Anson's, Andover's, Canberra's,  Vulcan's,  Victors,  Provosts,  Chipmunks,  Hastings, Beverly's, Varsities, and a selection of N.A.T.O. types including F.104s, Phantoms, Voutours, etc.

The T.7 Hunter was used as the station hack and would often watch her taxi in and out, she was all-over silver with yellow bands, as with training command.

Below are pictures of Wattisham Fire Dump around 1992.