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Left to right: Ambulance depot, training school, fire station and living quarters
Covered ways between blocks
set in the hill high above the buildings.
The training school occupies a three- storey building which incorporates ap- pliance rooms for training vehicles on the ground floor, lecture rooms on the first floor and offices for instructors, officers and the commandant on the second floor. A fully equipped gymn- asium, 86 ft. by 45 ft., extends through two floors above the appliance rooms.
Placed next to the school and con- nected to it by covered passageways at ground and first floor levels is a four-storey block containing the train- ees' living quarters.
Other training facilities include three drill towers, smoke chambers, under- ground tunnels, underground water
storage tanks, deep wells for pump testing and a fire pit.
The drill towers are located on the drill ground at the south end of the site. The largest has sides of 31 ft. 9 in. and is 90 ft. high, while the others are 16 ft. 6 in. by 11 ft. 6 in. by 81 ft. high. All three are load bearing wall structures constructed from in situ fair-faced concrete cast in plywood formwork.
The New Territories district head- quarters, fire station and ambulance depot, as well as communal facilities such as canteen, recreation rooms, din- ing rooms and shops, are all housed in a low building varying from two to four storeys in height and measuring
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Looking towards Pat Heung fire station. Living quarters at rear
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Far East BUILDER, November 1968.