Mr Fisher lives at the Queenstown Fire Station, as do about five other volunteers.
''It's not a quiet house,'' Mr Fisher said, referring to the company and open house policy for volunteers, rather than to the fire alarm.
''It's rare that there's no-one here.''
He has been a volunteer for nine years and has lived at the station for four.
Though they live at the station, the volunteers were on a roster system which the station has been trialling for the last three months.
Mr Fisher said 20 brigades throughout the country were trialling a system where volunteers logged in and out of a computer which monitored who was available ''and if there's not enough people it sends a message''.
He owns and operates Southernmost Classics and being self-employed meant he was able to make up the time later if he was called out but he acknowledged ''sometimes work does have to come first''.
''But because I'm my own boss ... I'm quite flexible with time.''
His ''big love'' of the Fire Service was the camaraderie, he said, and when major fires broke out like the Night 'n Day fire in 2007 and the World Bar fire in May, this was obvious.
''Multiple brigades turn up and we all know what we're doing. Everybody sort of helps each other out [and] it brings all your training together.''
He said many people might not realise how much behind the scenes work and training went on, and especially with the position he was in.
''A lot of people don't realise when they come to Queenstown that we are volunteers because we turn out as quick as fulltime [firefighters].''
