GUIDES TRY FIRE-FIGHTING

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 14, 17 January 1930, Page 7

GUIDES TRY FIRE-FIGHTING

On (Monday afternoon the Girl Guides in camp in the Defence Dept. huts at Trentham were allowed to test their skill at fire-lighting. Miss Kebbelj camp commandant, staging a fire alarm scare by permission of and with assistance from the Defence Department. Through the courtesy of Sergeant-Major Barnes, of. the Defence Fire 'Brigade, the commandants of the fourteen camp groups were giveu a lecture on the methods used for first-aid fire-fighting, and the various appliances were explained. This information was passed on to the Guides by their leaders, who told the girls that an alarm might be given at any time, and. they must be ready to carry out the necessary fire-drill and use the appliances provided for the purpose. On the alarm being given by a Guide breaking a glass of one of the patent fire alarms, the Guides fell in outside their own huts until the direction of . the fire was given by their leaders. It was then seen that a large pile of hay in the vicinity of the cookhouse was ablaze. Under direction, the Guides seized the water buckets and patent fire extinguishers, and worked at the conflagration until the arrival of the Defence fire engine, when the girls were again' allowed- to assist in attaching the hose and turning on the streams of water. The fire was rapidly extinguished, but it was then seen that a further fire had occurred in the cookhouse, volumes of smoke issuing from the doorway. The fire, which had presumably occurred on the stone floor of the building, was also conquered. The Guides were then allowed to make a series of mock arrests, and much amusement followed a trial by jury of the suspected perpetrators of the outrage was carried out. The camp ends to-day.