Fire Fighting Demonstration For Civilians (1941)

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 sand onto them. Various shots of firemen demonstrating the correct way to enter a burning room (on hands and knees). They show the crowd out to drag an injured person out of a fire. Various shots of people in the crowd signing up to become civilian fire fighters. They are each issued with their own stirrup pumps. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.