E.P.S. WARDENS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 16 October 1941, Page 3

E.P.S. WARDENS

DETAILED GL IDE PREPARED DUTIES BEFORE AND IN EMERGENCY The duties of district wardens in the Christchurch Emergency Precautions Services are set out in a comprehensive guide that has been prepared for the organisation (stales "The Press”'. The guide deals with the organisation of the district to cope with an emergency, and the procedure in actual emergencies, and it gives detailed instructions in methods of dealing with high explosive and incendiary bombs arid the recognition and treatment of the various types of gas poisoning. A district warden is expected to act as adviser and to co-ordinate generally the activities of his district. The warden’s office is situated at the general district reporting point, in most cases the school, where must be kept full information concerning the district. In an emergency he will receive reports from fire patrols and will notify the units of the E.P.S. involved, such as demolition parties, rescue parties, fire, water, electricity, gas, drainage, first aid, accommodation, etc., and the central reporting point. In his reports of damage supplied to the central reporting point the warden is warned of the necessity of being calm, accurate, quick and clear, j He has to see to the clearing of the ' streets, the fencing off of bomb craters j or dangerous area, and the posting of | watchers where premises are damj aged so as to expose the contents.