Smoke Chamber
With its own smoke chamber and improved training facilities, the new Christchurch Fire Brigade headquarters is virtually a small fire training school, and the Chief Fire Officer (Mr L. R. Osmond) says it will be a big help to other brigades.
tions. The training involves firemen finding their way through dense smoke and heat and avoiding barriers, which are altered from «ime to time. Next to the smoke chamber is the breathing apparatus reconditioning
The smoke chamber is patterned on the one at the Fire Service Training School in Island Bay and will facilitate the training of firemen in full smoke and heat condi-
room. This is a most important unit, as the condition of breathing apparatus can mean the difference between a man’s safety and serious injury or loss of life.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29909, 24 August 1962, Page 7
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