The case came to light when the firefighter in his 40s, who had been working for the city for over 25 years, hesitated to show his driver’s license during a regular inspection last week.
A firefighter in Japan lost his job after city officials found out he had been driving ambulances and firetrucks for over 20 years without a driver’s license, an official in Takaoka City, central Japan, said on Tuesday.
The monthly inspection of driver’s licenses started last year and before that, the firefighter had filed a fake license registration number to Takaoka City in 1981. Between April 2003 and June 2008, the firefighter, who told city officials he had gone to a driving school but failed the writing exam, drove ambulances 309 times and firetrucks 97 times.
