TWELVE HOURS' DUTY
SPLENDID A.R.P. WARDENS
It is true there have been no raids, but all who have volunteered for duty as A.R.R. Wardens have been studying a great deal and have tak^n part in many large-scale and short emergency practices, and they have.been glad of the quiet interval to perfect their knowledge, states "The Post's" London correspondent.
Practices include wartime emergencies such as dealing with gas attacks, failure of lights, crowds overcome with fright (sopie of whom may go out of their mind). If part-time volunteers arrive for relief duty the regulars have a fev^ hours' leave, but otherwise they remain on duty from 9.30 a.m. to 9.30 p.m., alternating one week day and one week night with forty-eight hours' leave once a month.
One centre in Westminster is underground, and often in the winter those on duty would carry on for twelve hours without knowing what the weather outside was like. There is a canteen on the premises, also a comfortable lounge for off-duty use. Most of the workers are billeted* in the neighbourhood, to obviate distant journeys in the blackout.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 112, 13 May 1940, Page 14
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183TWELVE HOURS' DUTY Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 112, 13 May 1940, Page 14
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