The South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service (MFS) was established 157 years ago in 1862 and is one of the oldest legislated fire services in the world.\xa0
Boosting workforce diversity is the focus of the MFS\u2019s latest full-time firefighter recruitment campaign - Challenge Your Potential, which urges people to challenge what they can achieve in their career \u2013 and look to become a firefighter. \xa0
The campaign is about opening the minds of people who may never have considered firefighting and letting them know it\u2019s a career option for them.\xa0
The MFS first announced a diversity push 3 \xbd years ago and is already seeing signs that stereotypes are falling away. It now has 35 % more female firefighters \u2013 and a jump in culturally diverse personnel. \xa0
The MFS is challenging historical stereotypes of who is, can and should be a firefighter. \xa0
On this week\u2019s Our State episode MFS Assistant Chief Fire Officer of Metropolitan Operations, Peter Button and Senior Firefighters Dylan Faber and Cecilia Low talk about the new campaign and what it means to be a firefighter.