Marc Spaull

Since Joining The fire service I have worked across multiple different departments.

2025 - Present. - Lambeth River maritime search and rescue.

Within this role I am a deckhand/Leading hand and trainee coxswain for London's Fire boat Errington. The role includes,

• All General Deckhand work, mooring and berthing, towing and general maintenance.
• Search and rescue, when requested by HM Coastguard i play a vital role on the vessel in locating and assisting the casualty, Individual or vessel and provide medical support until other agencies arrive.
• Providing a specialist response to fire related incidents on and surrounding areas of the River Thames. This includes operating Fire monitors, pumping out water and providing a safe systems of work for land side crews.
• As acting leading hand on my team I deal with daily management of resources, crew welfare and general administration, Work returns, vessel maintenance reports Etc.

2021 - 2025 - Euston Fire Station.

As part of on of London Fire rescue units these would be reserved to deal with incidents that required more technical skills. Within this I specialised in swift water rescue and Hazardous material incidents.

• Persons in water or in crisis around water.
• Persons under trains.
• Any Incidents that involved unknown chemicals, domestic or commercial that caused a hazard to the public.
• Heavy Rescue Road traffic Collision, working along side other fire crews our unit had additional equipment and techniques to assist with safely resolving the incident.

2020- 2021 - Operation Braidwood.

This was the joint emergency service venture between the London fire brigade and the London ambulance service to respond and deal with the every increasing calls due to the Global pandemic. I volunteered and was seconded to the ambulance service for a year where myself and a medic from the ambulance service provided an emergency ambulance to the people of London. My roles were.

• Blue light response driving.
• providing emergency treatment within my medical scope of practice.
• Assisting higher medical professionals with advanced treatments.

2018 - 2020 - Southall Fire station.

This was my first station following my training, I completed a range of different courses in order to aid my development and complete my book of competency. At this station I attended a vast range of emergency calls undertaken by the London Fire Brigade.

More details and information regarding this role can be provided on request.

Assistant site manager – January 2015 – February 2018

This role was a vital part of my early adulthood development At 19 I was undertaking my apprenticeship in construction management with a large development company St George Plc. This role was not only essential for my professional development it allowed me to learn lifelong skills such as communicating in person and online, decision making, people management and strict project time keeping. Below are some of the daily tasks I participated in and eventually managed.

• Monitoring daily progress on civil engineering surveying and piling works. This included daily site inspections ensuring compliance with health and safety while also collecting progress data for senior management updates.
• Carrying out daily site safety inductions, Inducting new staff or contractors to the site ensuring they were aware of location safety concerns, current works ongoing and ensuring minimum health and safety certification to work on site.
• Daily communications with a range of contractors assessing progress and dealing with issues as they occur.
• Visual inspections on all health and safety equipment to ensure compliance.

As the development progressed my role adapted with me taking on new responsibilities involving the management of hazardous materials and the management of fire safety compliance throughout.