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Fire Bears

A History Book?

Fire Bear’s history may one day be published in

full when fully researched and documented. This
pictorial story book covers most of it. It shows

Founder Bear’s publicity material from the early
days and of course relates the story of the search
for him after 23.5 years as a Mascot Bear but

only 21 years for the Official Mascot and stand-in.

It’s hoped that there will be interest from the
fire community so that the character of a fire

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bear-icon of the 20 Century UK will live on and
carry on raising funds for many colleagues and

for their family members wherever there’s a
need, long into the future. He will survive. “The

Bear is ‘Dead’ Long Live The Bear!”