Steve North retired from the fire service in 2017 following a career as a firefighter in the London Fire Brigade and South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service spending most of his career on operational duties including a seven-year spell on a Technical Rescue Unit and two periods working as an instructor in South Yorkshires Training & Development Centre.
Steve has a passion for RTC rescue and been with the UKRO for almost 22 years firstly as a competitor in South Yorkshires RTC extrication team gaining world titles along the way and later joined the UKRO assessing team, he is currently the UKRO assessor development officer and project manager for the Ukraine International Development Project.
Apart from his voluntary work with the UKRO Steve is the Rescue Director for International Road Rescue & Trauma Consultancy (IRRTC) delivering first class training to fire & rescue services across the UK & overseas.