WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1990
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OPENING OF KOTEWALL FIRE STATION
RESIDENTS OF THE MID-LEVELS WERE TODAY (WEDNESDAY)
BETTER PROTECTION DURING FIRE OPENING OF THE KOTEWALL FIRE STATION.
AND OTHER
ASSURED OF EMERGENCIES FOLLOWING THE
STATION,
SPEAKING AT THE OPENING OF THE FIRE OFFICER OF HONG KONG COMMAND, MR RAYMOND JOHNSTON, COMMISSIONING OF THIS STATION, THERE ARE TWO APPLIANCES AND NIGHT AND THE RESPONSE TIME TO EMERGENCIES WITHIN THE BE MADE WELL WITHIN THE TARGET TIME OF SERVICES TRY TO GUARANTEE.
ON RUN REGION SIX MINUTES WHICH THE FIRE
THE CHIEF FIRE SAID: "WITH
THE
DAY
CAN
"RESIDENTS OF THE AREA CAN THEREFORE BE REST KNOWING THAT THEY ARE VERY WELL PROTECTED."
A LITTLE BASIER
OF DANGER
BE
IT FIRE
OR
FLOODING,
OR THEIR AND
TYPHOON
IN TIMES RAINSTORM, THE FIREMEN OF THIS STATION WOULD CONTINUE TO RENDER DEDICATED SERVICE IN THE TRUE TRADITION OF THE FIRE SERVICES HERE
WERE REQUIRED, ELSEWHERE IN THE TERRITORY AS AND WHEN THEIR SERVICES MR JOHNSTON SAID.
ROAD LAM ROAD
OF A POPULATION OF THE KOTEWALL FIRE STATION COVERS AN AREA ABOUT 50,000, SERVING THE MID-LEVELS ABOVE BONHAM ROAD AND CAINE AND EXTENDING EASTWARDS TO GLENEALY AND WESTWARDS TO POK FU AND INCLUDING THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG.
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ONE REHABILITATION WITHIN THE AREA, THERE EXIST ONE HOSPITAL,
AND KINDERGARTENS, TWO CENTRE,
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES, NINE
IN ADDITION ΤΟ THE NUMEROUS HIGH-RISE BUILDING CONSTRUCTION SITES EXISTING HIGH-RISE DOMESTIC BUILDINGS.
MR JOHNSTON RECALLED THE KOTEWALL ROAD DISASTER WHICH IN JUNE 1972 AT A SITE WHICH WAS JUST ABOUT ONE THE FIRE STATION. IN THIS
TRAGEDY 67 PEOPLE
MINUTE'S LOST THEIR
A LANDSLIDE AND BUILDING COLLAPSE CAUSED BY A RAINSTORM.
OCCURRED WALK FROM LIVES IN
FIRE SERVICES WERE RESPONSIBLE HE SAID IN THIS INCIDENT THE FOR THE RESCUE OPERATION AND WERE ABLE TO RESCUE 21 PEOPLE ALIVE.
THEIR
OFFICERS WAS THE ONE OF THE
EFFORTS, RIGHT FIREMEN AND AS A RESULT OF RECEIVED AWARDS FOR GALLANTRY FROM THE QUEEN AND ONE OF THEM RECIPIENT OF THE GEORGE MEDAL HIGHEST CIVILIAN AWARDS FOR OUTSTANDING BRAVERY, MR JOHNSTON SAID.
ATTENDING TODAY'S
FOR
GALLANTRY
FUNCTION
IS WHICH
THE WERE DIRECTOR, MR CHEUNG SHU-SHING, AND CHIEF FIRE OFFICER
ALSO
MR PETER CHEUNG.
ACTING DEPUTY
(HEADQUARTERS),
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