provides for 75% of the rank and file to be accommodated in depart- mental quarters by 1970. At the present time the percentage accommodated is a little under 13%. Other progress during the year was limited to con- tinuing work by the architects on design for additional 2-bay stations as recommended in the Development Report, and buildings to replace the following temporary accommodation:
Fire Services Headquarters
District Headquarters, Kowloon
District Headquarters, Hong Kong
District Headquarters,
New Territories
Fire Service Workshops and Stores
Officers Training School
Fire Control (Hong Kong)
Ambulance Control (Hong Kong)
Harcourt Road Fire Station
Howe Block,
Ex H.M.S. Tamar, Queen's Road East, Hong Kong.
Ex Naval Camber, Canton Road, Kowloon.
Ex Naval Quarters, Harcourt Road, Hong Kong.
Chartered Bank Building, Tsuen Wan.
Ex Naval Stores,
Hong Kong.
Ex Naval Nissen Huts, Harcourt Road,
Hong Kong.
Ex Naval Nissen Huts, Harcourt Road, Hong Kong.
Ex Naval Nissen Huts, Harcourt Road, Hong Kong.
Ex Naval Nissen Huts, Harcourt Road, Hong Kong.
TRAINING (INTERNAL)
32. The standard of technical knowledge required in the Service continues to increase, and the lack of it is still most noticeable at fire fighting operations. With the extent and increasing complexity of admin- istering the needs of a modern Fire Service, even Senior Commanders tend at times to overlook and under-assess the vital role in life and fire damage which members of the uncomplaining Rank and File play. In the Hong Kong Fire Service the ordinary fireman is superbly courageous, and generally uncomplaining, but not enough is being done to train him to achieve the status of a specialized technician which in our densely populated modern city he undoubtedly needs to be.
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