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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1981
RETIREMENT MEMENTO
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PRINCIPAL FIREMAN YU LUNG-YIN, RESPONSIBLE FOR RECEIVING THOUSANDS OF DISTRESS FIRE CALLS IN THE PAST 22 YEARS, IS RETIRING AFTER 32 YEARS OF SERVICE.
TO MARK HIS RETIREMENT, THE ACTING DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF FIRE SERVICES DEPARTMENT, MR BRIAN FENDER PRESENTED A MEMENTO TO HIM AT A CEREMONY HELD AT THE FIRE SERVICES CONTROL CENTRE TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
MR YU JOINED THE DEPARTMENT IN SEPTEMBER 1949 AS A FIREMAN. TEN YEARS LATER HE WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE FIRE SERVICES CONTROL CENTRE UNTIL HIS RETIREMENT.
HE WAS PROMOTED TO SENIOR FIREMAN (CONTROL) IN 1968 AND TO THE PRESENT RANK IN JUNE 1975.
HE WAS AWARDED THE COLONIAL FIRE BRIGADES LONG SERVICE MEDAL IN 1967 AND THE FIRST CLASP TO THE MEDAL IN 1974.