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Friday, February 22, 1974
C.A.S. HOLDS ANNUAL EXERCISE
The Civil Aid Services will hold its annual exercise this
Sunday (February 24) to ensure that volunteers' training is up-to-date
and that they are fully prepared and ready for any emergency which may
arise.
Due to the fuel economy drive, the colony-wide exercise will be
reduced to a regional one held simultaneously on Hong Kong Island and
in Kowloon, with a limited movement of vehicular traffic.
The exercise, code-named "Yellow Stone", is set in Hong Kong
against a background of simulated events during the tropical cyclone
season.
After seven days of continuous rainfall, there result many
isolated landslides, collapse of old tenement houses, flooding and road
blockages.
The Civil Aid Services has been alerted to be ready to render
assistance, if necessary, at very short notice.
On February 24, a further torrential downpour occurs, causing
severe damage to property and posing a threat of landslides. The Commissioner,
C.A.S., mobilises 600 officers and members in the early hours of the
morning to assist in the rescue of victims from a large landslide which
has occurred in a squatter area near Wong Nai Chung Reservoir, and in
a squatter area near the Kowloon Reservoir.
Mary huts