Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton has been a firefighter since she was eighteen years old. She is now one of the most senior female firefighters in the UK.

After leaving home at fifteen and school at sixteen, she joined the fire service in Wales. While climbing the ranks, she studied at the Open University and then at Cardiff University, eventually completing a PhD in Psychology. She has won awards for her research into incident command in the emergency services and has presented her findings across the world. She was recently conferred as an Honorary Fellow at Cardiff University.

She lives with her husband and daughter in London.