Other information asked for is about any ladders, shovels or picks that the, householder might possess, The group leader keeps one copy of this form and sends the other to the organizer of the scheme, whose staff makes an abstract of the forms from the members of each group on: cards which are indexed at OF-S. control.
The cards have on them the name and address of the group leader, of his deputy leader, the positions of the water hydrants in the group area, and the address of the nearest warden's and first-aid posts. On the back are the names, numbers, and addresses of the families in the group, where they shelter, and which of them have stirrup pumps.
How does the scheme work in an air-raid?
Let us leave high explosive out of account and assume that a fire bomb has fallen on a house roof. The warden on patrol notifies it to the group leader. who immediately calls out the nearest people—all properly trained—and they attack the bomb with sand and stirrup pumps. Should the fire get out of control the warden or group leader sends a message to AFS. control, either by the A.F.S. patrol-car, whose route is known to all by telephone, or by messenger if the telephone system has broken down.
Immediately the message arrives at AF.S. control the group's card, with the information already mentioned on if. is taken out of the index and given to the squad which is going to the fire. Thus before the squad gets to the fire it knows where the hydrants are, where spare stirrup pumps can be found, and if houses, or an area have to be cleared, the numbers in each family and where they shelter. Apart from this, they will fad willing trained hands when they arrive and group leaders armed with all kinds of minute and useful knowledge about each house, Baildon is a small town, but its people were setting a fine example long before the lessons of the heavy fire raids and Mr. Morrison's speech on the wireless. Clearly a large could not maintain a centralized scheme of this kind, but surely it is something that could be organized within the compass of a werd? After all. these small city districts already have every thing from which Paildon's scheme started—the wardens, the A.F.S,, and eager householders, All that is wanted is the proper organization of this skill and willingness, and Baildon's cxample shows one way.
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