Alex Johnson QFSM

Alex joined Derbyshire Fire Service in 1992 as a firefighter. At that time women made up less than 1% of the British Fire Service. Alex progressed through ranks in Derbyshire and moved to South Yorkshire in 2017 as the Assistant Chief Fire Officer, progressing to Deputy Chief in 2018 and becoming the first female Chief Fire Officer for South Yorkshire Fire in January 2020. Alex retired in May 2022 after 30 years’ service. Throughout her career Alex has worked across most references. She is a fully qualified Business Fire Safety officer, Breathing Apparatus Instructor and Critical Incident Debriefer. She has worked in Prevention and Inclusion, Protection, Response, Training and strategic planning As a Strategic Commander Alex has dealt with a number of major incidents including the widescale flooding in South Yorkshire in 2019 and co-chaired the Local Resilience Forum for South Yorkshire throughout the Covid pandemic, dealing with concurrent incidents including a protracted wildfire. Al