FIRST-AID FIRE FIGHTING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 63, 16 March 1942, Page 4

FIRST-AID FIRE FIGHTING

ADVICE TO HOUSEHOLDERS Fire brigades in all parts of tlu Dominion have been si l engthened t< meet emergency conditions, but in thevent of a heavy attack on cities an; 1 towns (he services would be severe!.' ] strained, said the chairman of ih( Wanganui Fire Board, Mr. G. P | Hawkins, at the demonstration will i incendiary bombs on Saturday. I “People must be ready to deal will i small (ires to which normally the' I would call the brigade.” he added ! “They must realise that it would b« I impossible for tire services to corn I with a multiplicity of (ires, and t.ha i they must, provide adequate e(|ui[) | menl in their homes and buildings.” | What might appear lo be a seriou ; fire in a room could be quelled wi.l ; a small quantity of equipment i tin kled with courage and dotoimmn ; lion. More than half the (ires whirl i occurred in New Zealand cities air i towns were suppressed ny regulai • ■ m( n using small bucket pumps. str( ims from whicli wt're con i ‘ del ably Joss pow erl u! 1 han the j I from a garden hose. I "Bucke; pumps, or stirrup pumps I are recommended as .standard equip, i mont for first-aid fire-figh' ing. but al i the present llr’y cannot be supplier in adequate numbers, said Mr Hawk i ns.