LYTTELTON NEWS
EMERGENCY PRECAUTIONS SCHEME A practice of the Lyttelton Emergency Precautions Scheme, as applied to the waterfront, was held on Thursday afternoon, and proved satisfactory to the officials present. Fire fighting formed the principal part of the practice, the Harbour Board’s tug Lyttelton II and the dredge Te Whaka, also the Lyttelton Fire Brigade’s big Dennis fire engine being used. The alarm was given from the tug and the fire engine proceeded from the fire station to the waterfront and was pumping sea water into four leads in 3 minutes 35 seconds. The tug had five leads of hose and its two powerful monitors in action, as well as a foamite lead, and the Te Whaka had three leads in action, making a total of 15 jets playing. . . . . A part of the practice which proved of special interest to the spectators was the cutting, by engineers, of metal plates with the use of an oxy-acetylene torch. To those who had never previously witnessed this operation, the speed and ease with which the torch cut through an iron plate two inches thick, was amazing. This part of the scheme is to assist in the clearing away of wreckage.
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23302, 12 April 1941, Page 7
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198LYTTELTON NEWS Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23302, 12 April 1941, Page 7
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