WA United Professional Firefighters Union secretary Tim Kucera told Liam Bartlett on 6PR Mornings the technical training of four dozen firefighters at St John's Belmont headquarters had begun today in earnest.

"It's a different vehicle to the vehicle that firefighters currently drive," he told Bartlett.

"It's more a familiarisation type [training], working out where everything is when they drive those vehicles."

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