The longest serving station manager in Diss Fire Station’s history is set to retire at the end of this month – 42 years to the day after he joined. Karl Hain, who has been in charge of the station for 26 years, will leave the Park Road site for the last time on April 30. The 60-year-old became a became a firefighter after his uncle and then Diss station manager Mick Scoulding asked him to join up when he was 18. “I was working for Barric Limited at the time, where I had work since I was 16 and he said ‘how about it?’,” said Mr Hain, who lives with his wife, Sarah, in Champneys Road. “I joined …