Saving lives on and off hours

Part and parcel of job: (From right) Ooi and fellow voluntary firefighters, Apple Chong and Kelly Lim, at the fire station handling snakes that had been captured. — LIM BENG TATT/The Star

GEORGE TOWN: A nurse is among the few women debunking the myth that firefighting is mainly a man’s job.

Despite knowing the risk and danger, Ooi Zhi Yun, 25, joined the Mount Erskine voluntary firefighting squad during the movement control order (MCO) period early this year.