Elvis Cridlington

## Firefighter Elvis Cridlington

* CGI 3
* CGI 2
* CGI 1
* Stop-motion 2
* Stop-motion 1

### Friends

Sam Jones, Penny Morris, Ellie Phillips, Arnold McKinley, Jerry Lee Cridlington, Station Officer Steele, Chief Fire Officer Boyce, Ben Hooper, Tom Thomas, Charlie Jones, Bronwyn Jones, Sarah Jones, James Jones, Gareth Griffiths, Mike Flood, Helen Flood, Mandy Flood, Norman Price, Dilys Price, Derek Price, Moose Roberts, Joe Sparkes, Hannah Sparkes, Lizzie Sparkes, Bella Lasagne, Trevor Evans, Mrs. Chen, Lily Chen, Malcolm Williams, Rose Ravani, Marine Biologist Jodie, Krystyna Kaminski, Peter Kaminski

### Enemies

Buck Douglas, Professor Polonium, Doctor Crumpton

### Likes

Music, his friends, his cousin Jerry Lee, playing guitar, extinguishing fire, cooking

### Dislikes

Making troubles, being angry by Station Officer Steele, fire

## Character's Bio

### Age

20's or 30's (cartoon)
38 (2017)
39 (2018)
41 (2020)
42 (2021)
43 (2022)

## Physical Apearance

### Eye Colour

Blue (cartoon)
Light sapphire blue (fanfics)

### Complexion

Fair (cartoon)
Pale (Fanfics)

### Status

AliveInstitutionalized (The Firefighter's Life and Death and The Tales of The Quadruplets & The Triplets)

**Elvis Cridlington** is one of Fireman Sam characters. He's one of the firefighters at the Pontypandy Fire Station. He has also been assigned the position of station mess manager.

## Biography

Elvis was born and raised in Pontypandy by a single mother. Growing up he always dreamed of being a firefighter and upon completing his high school education, he began his firefighter training at the Newtown Fire Academy.

Upon completing his training, he returned to Pontypandy and joined the Pontypandy Fire Service.

His cousin, Jerry Lee Cridlington is also a firefighter and is based at the Newtown Fire Station.

## Physical Appearance

In the cartoon, Elvis has fair skin, black hair and blue eyes. He wears midnight blue firefighter's jacket, yellow pants and helmet and black boots.

In the fanfics, he has pale skin and light sapphire blue eyes. His black hair has combed and slightly slicked. Due to his institutionalization and schizophrenic breakdown, his hair completely messed up and almost wetting in when he was mentally ill, being haunted by Darren's ghost and tries to committing suicide.

When Elvis was institutionalized in Newtown Psychiatric Institution, he wears pale teal pajamas, turquoise robe, light blue slippers and white wristband with his name on it on his left hand.

## Personality

Elvis is a friendly firefighter who helps and respects everyone, even if he is a little goofy. He cares a great deal about his friends.

He has a heart of gold and is absolutely dedicated to fighting fires and provides a contrast to Sam in both competency and demeanor.

Whilst Elvis is a perfectly competent firefighter, he is still learning the finer points of the job as Sam's apprentice. Elvis is very much in awe of his mentor, Fireman Sam.

Elvis is an avid fan of rock'n'roll and plays the guitar. He is in a band with Mike Flood. Elvis and Mike put themselves forward to play at every opportunity and Elvis is regularly trying to come up with new song ideas, often about whatever happens to be going on in the station.

He doesn't really pay attention in training drills and unlike most of the crew, he is not always very aware of fire hazards, as seen on several occasions. In Safe with Sam, he nearly attempts to go back and relight a firework when it does not go off straight away. During a firefighter drill in A Real Live Wire, he nearly throws water over a burning TV without turning off the power first. Elvis also has a tendency to be forgetful at times, as is highlighted in Sam's Day Off, where he accidentally leaves Trevor Evans behind while the two men are out refilling Jupiter's water tanks. However, there have been times when he is shown to provide good advice regarding fire safety to others. In Mummy's Little Pumpkin, whilst lighting the Jack O'Lantern in Price's General Store, he advises Norman to only let adults do this task, and that one should always blow it out before bedtime.

Despite his position as the station's chef/cook, Elvis has no culinary prowess whatsoever. In Snow Business, Station Officer Steele compares a Christmas turkey Elvis once cooked to a rubber duck. Even Sam is unenthusiastic about Elvis's cooking, despite the pair's close friendship - In Chemistry Set, he described Elvis's attempts at making spaghetti Bolognese as 'another gastronomic delight', and, upon smelling a rather unpleasant smell from the kitchen, hastily suggested to Steele that they miss lunch and test Jupiter immediately to which Steele enthusiastically agreed (though, to be fair, the foul smelling of the food was not Elvis's fault, but rather the handiwork of one Norman Price)

However, when it comes to a real emergency he performs the rescue with great skill. In Heroes of the Storm for instance, whilst Sam was rescuing Penny and the children from the old mines, Elvis takes on the responsibility of being the team leader and preparing Pontypandy for a hurricane.

Elvis also gets himself into trouble with Station Officer Steele for showing up late for work, getting his reports soggy and messy and other mishaps.

## Fanfics

### The Firefighter's Life and Death

In Mid-September 2015, Sam told Elvis and the crew that he was engaged to a widow with quadruplets named Wendy O'Loughlin, whose first husband, Bob died of terminal colon cancer last month.

On 27th August 2017, Sam and his crew were involved in a vehicle collision, but they're survives from it and a firefighter, Darren Potter was killed. Sam decided to donation both one of his own kidneys and a Darren's right kidney to Josh, a boy band singer whose kidneys were failed during the show for 6 months ago.

16th September 2018, a year after Darren's death, Elvis became mentally ill as he was very devastated by his death. He tries to kill himself by falling off from the fire station, but everyone saw him. Station Officer Steele and the crew also saw him trying to committing suicide, they're stopping him from falling. Jerry Lee hugs him tightly as he would calm him down and feeling worry about Sam. Chief Station Officer Boyce says that Elvis has diagnosed with three mental disorders including schizophrenia. Later, Elvis was ended up institutionalized and transferring to Newtown Psychiatric Institution and spent 10 years to keeping it in and out.

### The Tales of The Quadruplets & The Triplets

In 2020, Elvis turns 41 and remains institutionalized in Newtown Psychiatric Institution due to COVID-19 pandemic, 8 years before he was released and returning to Pontypandy.

### The Medical Emergency

Sam, Elvis and everyone from Pontypandy resides in Sapphire Bay. Sam and the crew were working at the Sapphire Bay Fire Department.

### Trapped & Disappearances

Elvis's appearance in the second fanfic, everybody from Pontypandy lived in the town of Crawley, West Sussex, England and Sam and his crew were working in the Crawley Fire Department.