FIRE GUARDS' VALUE
REMARKABLE
TESTIMONY
LONDON. November 2. Mr. Herbert Morrison, the Homo. Secretary, who inspected national fire services at Swansea today, said that a trained fire guard team nowplayed as great a part in the defence of British factories and cities as the guns and barrage balloons. Mr. Morrison went on to describe what happened in a heavy fire raid on a small coastal town. He said: "Incendiaries fell at a rate comparable with many hundreds of thousands on a large city. Nearly 150 fires were started. "The fire guard did their work so well that the national fire service was called to less than 20 of them. When they arrived they only found two fires for which they had to unroll their hoses. The fire guard had mastered the. rest. . | "In all the towns, under tremendous battering, no- buildings were destroyed by fire."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 108, 3 November 1942, Page 3
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145FIRE GUARDS' VALUE Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 108, 3 November 1942, Page 3
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