FIRE DANGER IN BRITAIN
(Rec. 1.30 p.m.) RUGBY, Octoher 4. Miss Ellen Wilkinson, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Home Security, speaking at Coventry today, said that the greatest danger from air bombardments was fire. The R.A.F. raids on Germany had shown that while the bombs were dropped in 30 minutes the fires had lasted 30 hours afterwards.
This menace had to be met by fire guards. There were plenty of volunteer women fire guards, just the same as there were men volunteers before compulsion. These volunteers asked for compulsion so that all would have a fair share in the national duty.— 8.0. W.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19421005.2.63
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 83, 5 October 1942, Page 4
Word Count
104FIRE DANGER IN BRITAIN Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 83, 5 October 1942, Page 4
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in