Alan Whittington started fighting fires a long time ago.
He says his first official day was August 3rd, 1984, but that wasn't his first time on a call.
"I was running calls before then, but I was not 18 years age, so I could not legally be a firefighter," he says.
But almost two decades ago, he got a new colleague.
"Alan and I started dating and I started going on calls with him," said Tiffany Whittington. "I learned that I was not a very good watcher. I wanted to get in there and help and do stuff, and all the guys were very encouraging for me to do that."
She became a volunteer firefighter with the Peach County Fire Department, just like her then-boyfriend Alan.