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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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