Sheffield museum highlights inspiring emergency service workers with new project

The Star, Sheffield

The National Emergency Services Museum has long celebrated the work of those on the front line, but it is now expanding on this mission even further with a collection of historical stories and personal accounts in their Inspire 999 digital project.

Transcript

00:00Since the pandemic we've changed how we do absolutely everything here at the museum.

00:08We've got the really cool big red trucks and things but it's the person's story that sort

00:13of stitches it all together. So the Inspire project is about telling that person's story

00:17rather than the vehicles and the equipment that we use and how they use them and how

00:22they're inspiring to either the next generation of our emerging services or anyone that's already

00:26in the service. The project's goal literally is to try and gather the emerging services story

00:37whether it be Fire, Police, Ambulance, Coast Guard or the services that work with them so

00:41like the RNLI, the Air Ambulance. Sort of the goal is to get quite a nice wide variety of people as

00:48well but sort of document their story for all future generations and the museum's exhibitions

00:54is this cool stories that we might not either want to tell now but we'll tell in another 10

00:58years time and we need them stories now sort of preserved ready for that. Same with the people

01:04that would have served vehicles like these at the side of us. If you don't serve it straight

01:07out of service then it wouldn't be here today.

01:19When we launched the project we launched at nine o'clock this morning so the ninth hour of the

01:22ninth day of the ninth month that makes the national 999 day and just giving that sort of

01:27opportunity at least once a year to just say thank you to all the emerging services for everything

01:31that they do because again you'll see them either flying past you on blue lights and sirens or

01:36from an ambulance point of view they will literally see you at birth and death so

01:39it's quite nice to sort of say thank you back to them and again remembering their stories.

Category

Transcript

Be the first to comment

Recommended