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Monday, February 4, 1974
COMPLETION OF COMPRESSED AIR BREATHING APPARATUS COURSE
By Seven Auxiliary Fire Services Officers
Seven Auxiliary Fire Services officers have passed a 10-dny
Compressed Air Breathing Apparatus course the first members of the
Services to do so.
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They are Station Officer Mak Wing-chuen and Assistant Station
Officer Lee Yiu-huen (Tsim Sha Tsui Fire Station); Assistant Station
Officer Fung Yuen-shan (Kwun Tong Fire Station); Station Officer Lai Bing-fu
(Tsuen Wan Fire Station), Assistant Station Officer Fung Pak-shun and.
Station Officer Hung Ping-wong (Harcourt Road Fire Station); and Station
Officer Mou Wai-ming (Aberdeen Fire Station).
The group received their training at the Fire Services Training
School, Pat Heung, New Territories over five week-ends in September last
year.
They can now instruct other Auxiliary Firemen in the use of
breathing apparatus.
A spokesman for the Fire Services Department said: "Being able to
operate breathing apparatus is an essential qualification for a Fireman,
but Auxiliaries were previously not trained in its use."
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As the Director of Fire Services recognised this meant they lagged
behind their full-time colleagues, he directed that a training course covering
theory and practice be held, the spokesman added.
The seven who passed hare heen presented with certificates by the
Director of Fire Services Mr. Harry Wood.
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