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POLICE
STATION
ARGYLE
STREЕТ
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CLOTHING
STORE
4001
FLAT ROOF
воды
LECTURE
CANTEEN
LOOM
OPERATIONSÁL
STONE
1000 FT
CONTROL
HALL
(Above) Site Plan.
ROOM
(Right) Plans of the two floors of the
building.
OPERATIONAL STONE
LECTURE
ROOM
AESQUE TRAINING STON
DAINE
LECTURE
OFFICE
AG-O
BALCONY
200
harbour.
The construction of the New centre in
of fire, which go to separate Fire Control victims at an incident will suffer from will include lecture rooms, stores, office Centres, all reports from the Warden Posts being cut off by falling masonry and spaces. club canteen. basket-ball court. are sent to the Regional Command Posts earth. Others will be marooned on the training tower etcetera. It will fulfil a of which there is one on each side of the top of buildings due to the destruction of long-felt want.
staircases. Some roads and passage ways will be blocked by landslides causing great Telephone lines can easily be affected inconvenience to the remedial services and Argyle Street shows that Government re by storm or other damage. It is there- fore most important to have alternative Rescue Service, which operates in gangs
the local residents. There is thus a Light Cognises fully the value of the Civil Aid methods of transmission involving two specialised branches of C.A.S., the Com- of about ten and carts round a remarkable munications Unit and the Despatch Ser collection of implements to deal with all
emergencies.
vice.
The Communications Unit are trainel on radios and other methods of signalling. The Despatch Service, drawn largely from members of the Boy Scouts Association, ride bicycles and motor-cycles.
Catastrophes may be of lengthy dura tion and it is necessary to ensure that members are properly documented, cloth- ed, paid, transported from one place to another, and supplied with requisite stores. There are thus Commissariat, Stores, Per sonal Records and Transport Branches each with their particular functions in an
emergency.
All these services are under the com- mand of the Commissioner, who is assist- ed by a number of Deputy Commissioners and a hierarchy of other trained officers. The total membership at present is about but the ultimate figure will be much higher.
3.300.
Services."
At the ceremony of the laying of the foundation stone on 18th July, 1955, the Hon. C. M. Terry in describing building said:
the
"From the plans on display, you will have gained some idea of what the building, will look like on completion, Where I
am standing will be the Main Hall and Entrance, and where you Ladies and Gentlemen are seated will be the AFS You will appreciate that 3.500 members Control Room. The large room next to require considerable administration, but the Control Room proceeding along the the Headquarters Staff in 39, Gloucester length of the building is to be a canteen Road, that is the Government Department leading out on
to a terrace. The space staffed by full time Government servant, opposite the canteen on the ground floor consists of only about a dozen persons. is to contain a store for Rescue Service The New Training Centre in Argyle Street equipment, which takes up rather a lot of will be a very handsome building indeed room, and a large operational store and Apart from wounds and other injuries and will contain all the facilities required clothing store. On the top floor above which are handled by the Auxiliary Medi by the C.A.S. Services in Kowloon. It the AFS Control Toom will be a large cal Service, it is quite likely that some has been designed by Mr. G. D. Su, and lecture room and the whole of that side of the building will contain further lecture rooms divided by s'iding doors which should enable the whole space available to be used as a hall. The other side of the building will contain a small adminis tration office and a first floor extension of the operatiora! store. There is a row of small stores on the opposite side of the driveway which will contain a message cen- tre, and a watchman's hut. There is also in the building, room for a caretaker and his store, storage for cycles and motor- cycles, a kitchen, and the usual con- veniences. Behin 1 the building, there will be a dangerous goods store, and large space laid out as a basket-ball court, which in emergency would be used for parking vehicles. A special tower has been included for Rescue training."
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