Steve Wilcock is the Owner and Director of North West Fire Training, Steve is a Royal Navy veteran having served for 5 years as a Sea Harrier Air Engineering Mechanic in the Fleet Air Arm. Steve went on many deployments around the globe with 800 Naval Air Squadron attached to HMS Invincible. The Royal Navy allowed Steve to develop a skillset which prepared him for his next challenge when he became a Firefighter in 1994 at one of the busiest Fire Stations in Greater Manchester at Broughton, covering Northern Salford in the 90s – with one of the highest ‘primary fire’ statistics in the country, one shift stands out in Steve’s memory with 8 operational breathing apparatus wears in one tour (a tour is a Fire Service term describing a shift consisting of 2 days and 2 nights).