A dream come true for Fireman Luke, 5

Astley five-year-old Luke Leigh suffers from severe epilepsy and due to his potentially life-threatening condition he was referred to the Starlight Children’s Foundation who granted him his magical wish.

And so the youngster spent the day as a guest of Leigh fire station where he toured the buildings and joined a crew on training exercises.

His interest in this branch of the emergency services is born from an obsession with the children’s TV series Fireman Sam, even in foreign languages including Japanese and German which he can’t understand! He asks family every day if he can go to the fire station as he loves seeing the trucks and hoses in action.

Luke’s Starlight Wish was to have a day with the fire services so Starlight made his wish come true.

On the day, Luke was presented with his very own official firefighting uniform before lining up with his fellow firefighters “on parade” to be allocated his tasks for the day.

He was then given a tour of the St Helens Road station but couldn’t wait to get outside and see the fire trucks. He then got to do just that, by participating in a practice drill.

Luke rode up front in a fire truck with the lights and siren blaring around the station, before coming to a stop outside a tall building that had smoke coming out of the windows.

Fireman Luke came to the rescue and helped to put out the fire with a hose, with the help of his fellow firefighters of course.

Before leaving Luke was presented with his very own toy fire truck to take home, not that he wanted to go home - he told every member of the Fire Station “I want to stay!”

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