Fire Fighting Demonstration For Civilians 1941

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Title reads: "Fire Fighting Demonstration for Civilians".

London.

Various shots of crowd of men and women on a bomb site. They are watching ARP fire fighters demonstrating use of "stirrup pump" extinguishers on incendiary bombs. The firemen then show how fires can be put out by shovelling...

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Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
37733
Sort Number:
41/005
Time in/Out:
01:16:26:00 / 01:17:39:00
Canister:
41/5
Film ID:
1067.15
Issue Date:
16/01/1941

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