"There are some really great, funny times with the crew and then there are some really tough times as well, but it's the camaraderie and the social element that keeps us all together," he said.
Trevor said Waipu Fire Station now got more than 100 calls a year and he attended around 80 per cent of those, at least.
Leanne said joining the fire service seemed like the natural thing to do.
"We grew up with it so it was like a second family for us, it was just a way of life really, you'd have birthdays and dinners and the pager would go and we'd all get excited and ask "what is it?", then dad would run out the door," she said.
So when Leanne moved down to the Mount recently, she joined the Mount Maunganui Fire Brigade.
"I saw it as a way of me getting into a hobby and also meeting people that could potentially become my local family," she said.
The family have been out on plenty of calls together, Leanne said.
"Most recently, when I was home over summer I went to a few calls with dad and my nephew and recently they went to a house fire where my brother drove, my dad was officer and my nephew was in the back," she said.
"It's great when you've got that extra level of trust because they are your family, even though you've got this amazing trust with the other members of the crew as well."
Trevor and Leanne said they had no plans to give it up anytime soon and Jordan has just joined the air force as a firefighter.
