West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service will be supporting Bradford’s Sikh community as they celebrate this year’s Vaisakhi festival.

Fire service staff will be available to offer fire safety and careers advice at the Guru Gobind Singh Gurdwara in Leeds Road from 9.45am on Sunday, 18 April before they join the colourful procession for a while as it winds its way around each of the six Sikh temples in the city. They will again be giving out valuable safety advice and careers information from 12.35pm, this time at the Guru Nanak Gurdwara in Usher Street of Wakefield Road.

Balvinder Bains, community outreach and recruitment worker for West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service, said: “Our firefighters and fire service staff are an integral part of the community, so we are delighted to take part in this year’s Vaisakhi celebrations. The parade is always a popular event, so we hope to meet as many people as possible and pass on valuable information.”

The Vaisakhi festival celebrates the Sikh New Year and commemorates 1699 – the year Sikhism was born as a collective faith.