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Opportunity was taken to re-name certain of the Brigade Stations as follows:
ISLAND OF HONG KONG.
Wanchai Fire Station to be known as Eastern Fire Station.
Kennedy Town Fire Station to be known as Western Fire Station.
KOWLOON PENINSULA.
The new Fire Station at 745-747, Nathan Road, to be known as Kowloon Fire Station.
The Fire Station at Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui (formerly named Kowloon Fire Station) to be known as Terminus Fire Station.
5. The brick and concrete structure at Taipo, New Territory, which housed a Police Van, Fire Brigade tender with portable fire pump and one motor ambulance, was struck by a tidal wave during the severe typhoon on 2/9/1937 and collapsed, causing such damage to the vehicles that the ambulance and Police van were beyond repair. The portable fire pump escaped serious damage and the Fire Brigade tender was salvaged and repaired at a cost of $1,600. The ambulance is being replaced at the earliest possible date.
6. A new Dennis Motor Fire Engine fitted with 300/800 g.p.m. multi-stage Turbine Pump, and complete with first aid system and 50 ft. Ajax sliding-carriage Fire Escape was supplied in March, 1937, and added to the equipment of the Brigade.
The following vehicles were ordered during the year and will be supplied in 1938:
(a) A new Motor Water Tower and Fire Escape Chassis complete with turbine pump and first-aid equipment, to replace the No. 9 Appliance chassis, for the mounting of the existing 95 feet steel ladders.
(b) A new 23.5 H.P. Motor Ambulance to replace Ambulance No. 73 which was wrecked at Taipo in the typhoon of 2/9/1937.
7. All of the thirty-six vehicles now maintained by the Fire Brigade were regularly inspected during the year; fifteen of the vehicles were completely overhauled and repainted.
8. The old No. 3 Fire Float was sold on the 27/1/1937. 1 Engineer and 1 Seaman from the Floating Staff were retrenched.