Fireman Sam

Dave Gingell

Rob Lee

The Lothian Buses Hub *[recreation]*

Matthias Matthiasson (singing)

Team Leader

Unnamed father (*Was mention in a interview*)

Charlie Jones (*brother*)

Bronwyn Jones (*sister-in-law*)

Sarah and James (*niece and nephew*)

Lucy Jones (*sister*)

Gareth Griffiths (*father-in-law*)

Unnamed sister-in-law

Liam (*cousin-in-law*)

Abraham Jones (*great x8 granddad*)

Flex Dexter

Professor Polonium

Doctor Crumpton

Mortimer Mouse

*““Great fires of London!"”*
―his main catchphrase from Season 1-onwards
**Sam Jones**, better known as **Fireman Sam**, is the main character and titular protagonist of the television series of the same name. He is a senior firefighter for the Pontypandy Fire Service, and usually drives Jupiter. Him and Elvis work for Station Officer Steele, along with Penny starting from the fifth series, and Arnold and Ellie starting from *Heroes of the Storm*.

## Biography

As a young boy, Sam had many ideas of what he wanted to be when he grew up. First he wanted to be a train driver, and then he wanted to be a space man, then he wanted to be a chef, but then one day, he saw some firefighters saving a family from a burning house, Sam thought it was very exciting. After that, Sam knew what he wanted to be. He then started to watch a fireman television show that inspired him even more. Sam went to Cardiff Fire Academy to train to be a firefighter. After completing his firefighter training at the academy, Sam returned to Pontypandy and moved into a house at 3 Vale Road and joined the Pontypandy Fire Service, where he is the lead firefighter and regular driver of Jupiter the fire engine.

In his spare time, Sam likes being an inventor in his back garden shed. In Sam's Day Off, he made a popcorn machine which unfortunately ended up trapping him in his shed.

There have been a few times where Sam has needed help from the fire service himself. For example in Deep Trouble for Sam, when he falls down a hole caused by a landslide at Penny Morris' new cottage garden.

In Series 6, he moved to a house just to the left of the Pontypandy Fire Station. The back gate of the house leads directly into the station yard.

Sam's brother Charlie is a local fisherman and his sister-in-law Bronwyn runs the Whole fish Café. Sam is a kind and attentive uncle to Charlie's and Bronwyn's children, Sarah and James. Sam also has a healthy relationship with the people he works with too.

During The Great Fire of Pontypandy, when Chief Fire Officer Boyce gave Sam a medal, he was also offered a Station Officer position for the Rapid Response Team in Newtown. However, by the end, he declined the promotion as he knew that Pontypandy needed him more and he refused to leave the town. Boyce was very shady during this movie Steele guessed that Boyce was trying to lure Sam away from Pontypandy

In Set for Action!, Sam was controversially dismissed from the brigade by Chief Fire Officer Boyce after a failed safety inspection during one of Don Sledgehammer's stunts, but was reinstated by Boyce after James gave evidence that it was Flex Dexter who sabotaged the stunt scene. During his sacking, his true reason for becoming a firefighter was revealed: while Sam was talking to Charlie about their childhood, they remembered an old fireman show they used to watch on television when they were younger.

In Norman Price and the Mystery in the Sky, Sam put his own life in danger to get explosive batteries out of Pontypandy with everyone left thinking that he was a goner, until Penny saw his shadow and knew he was alive much to everyone's relief.

## Personality

Sam is a competent and brave firefighter, who helps keep the people of Pontypandy safe. He considers his job to be 'the best job in the world', and often helps out in emergencies even on his days off. However, he does have an inventive streak which sometimes gets him in trouble when one of his inventions goes haywire: since Series 6, he has stopped inventing, though he can be creative from time to time, such as fashioning a barbecue out of an oil drum in Sausages vs. Shrimps.

He lives in the village of Pontypandy. He is a single man, but has a close relationship with his niece and nephew, Sarah and James, and is good friends with the villagers of Pontypandy.

Fireman Sam is brave, modest and dependable. He selflessly puts his life on the line to help others and everyone in Pontypandy knows that nothing is too much trouble for Fireman Sam. He is renowned for keeping a cool head in a hot spot. It's only when he's really surprised he exclaims, "*Great Fires of London!*".

## Further Qualifications

* Advanced Driver
* Trained Lifeguard
* Certified Scuba Diver
* Winter Training (HQ)

## Awards

* Medal of Outstanding Bravery (*The Great Fire of Pontypandy*)

* Bravery Award (*declined in Escape from Pontypandy Island*)

* 5 More Unnamed Medals

* Three Legged Race Winner (*along with Dilys and Three Legged Race*)

## Trivia

* David Jones's daughter came up with Sam's name.
	+ It can also be assumed that Sam's surname in the CGI series "Jones" was given to him in honour of David Jones for creating the character. The surname "Jones" was also used in *Joshua Jones*, another TV series that David Jones worked on with Rob Lee.
* When creating Sam, Rob Lee started by drawing a classic figure of eight cartoon face adding a bulb-shaped nose.
* In some early Fireman Sam story books, that had specially drawn illustrations, Fireman Sam was given brown eyes for unknown reasons.
* In 2009, Sam appeared with Penny, Elvis and Station Officer Steele in Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band music video on "Children in Need". Although the models from Series 5 were reused for this video mainly made up of stop-motion television characters, the characters retained their voices from the recently established CGI series. Sam and the team would later return to Silver Hatch Race Track in 2023 in Fireman Sam: Silver Hatch Heroes.
* He has driven all of the emergency land vehicles at Pontypandy Fire Station and piloted all the emergency sea vehicles from the Ocean Rescue Centre.
* He is the only character to have appeared in every single episode.
* He is the main driver of Jupiter.
* He drove Jupiter in every episode in Season 1.
* When recreating Sam, TLBH gave him a new Clubhouse Rescue Uniform which looks like his original uniform, but with yellow replaced by blue, and blue replaced by yellow. He would later wear it in the Silver Hatch Heroes episode "Sam, the great designer".
* As of Silver Hatch Heroes, Sam can be found mostly at Hairpin Bend.
* In a Wales Online article celebrating the 25th anniversary of the television series in 2012, Sam's surname is incorrectly said to be Peyton-Jones. This is incorrect, as Sam's surname was never Peyton. The error most likely comes from the episode Barn Fire, with Sam's potato picker being called "The Samuel Patent Potato Picket". 'Patent' refers to the fact that it is an invention.
* Also, Sam's first name is said to be Samuel. This never happens in the Fireman Sam Spin-Off Series universe, as Sam's name was never said to be Samuel.
* A US dub of Fireman Sam: Silver Hatch Heroes is in the works with the original UK dub, Sam will be voiced by Magnús Scheving, replacing Andrew Holdwitz as the US voice of Sam, however TLBH still had Holdwitz voice Elvis in the US Dub
* Because he's being voiced by Magnús Scheving in the US dub of Silver Hatch Heroes, Sam speaks in an Icelandic accent rather than an American Accent.
* Kerry Shale was planned by TLBH to voice Sam, but Sam's new US voice was chosen to be Magnús Scheving instead.
* It's also revealed in Silver Hatch Heroes is that Matthias Matthiasson is the singing voice of Sam in the Fireman Sam edition of Let's Go! Although TLBH had an Ai edition of the song in Fireman Sam's first album, it was decided to feature just the Ai version but it was decided to include the main songs also.
* In Silver Hatch Heroes, it's revealed that Sam has a sister called Lucy Jones. When TLBH's original AU was produced, Lucy was written as Sam's cousin. However this plot point was changed for Silver Hatch Heroes, it is still included on her original character description from DeviantArt.
* Before Silver Hatch Heroes was produced, Sam wore a completly different uniform, The helmet had a tourch attached to it and a line woth two dots were also on the helmet. The tunic has a picket instead of a walkie talkie and the leggings have reflective stripes on them. These uniforms are used on Fireman Fan 152's redesign series and TLBH's Web TV Adoptation of Fireman Fan 152's redesign series. The uniform was eventually switched to the Fireman Sam Season 14 uniforms because one of TLBH's most beloved uniforms is the Fireman Sam Season 14 uniforms.
* He and Quoodles became mascots for TLBH in 2022 and Minnie would then join the mascot plan in April 2023 and then the entire Pontypandy Fire Service would join the mascot plan at Christmas 2023.

## Quotes

* *Great fires of London!* (UK/US) (He shares the exact same quote with Quoodles)