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Local fire groups in WW2

This is how fire groups were organised. The aim being to have sufficient rota cover to fight incendiary fires over any 24 hours; women to cover daytime hours and men the evenings. Viv.

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Source: British Newspaper Archive
 
Now, two and two may be making five, but " during the war" the house I lived in had the letters "FP" stencilled on the brickwork to the left of the front door which I always understood meant fire pump. So maybe my grand dad, whose home it was, was a member of such a fire crew and the FP indicated the location of a team pump. I do remember the pump and it wasn't a very impressive device. A brass stirrup pump that after the war I remember was used to water the garden.
 
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