training on station yard using foam

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3 photographs showing how firemen used to use foam in their training . This was meant to make them use other senses to search as you can not hear or see anything when you walk through foam, they used to wave their hands in front or their faces in order to breathe. This training is no longer carried out due to health and safety.

Date of creation

c1955

Date of coverage

1950

Place

blackburn, lancashire

Reference number

BP/BP5/2/0011/0007/04/2/0008

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These pictures are Red Watch from about 1965, and include Sub O Bill Johnson, Ronnie Thornton, Walter Clamp, Derek Prescott, Ray Tudor and Brian Parker
By Norman Halliwell (10/12/2014)