The protection of your home against air raids / Home Office.

Date:
1938
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The protection of your home against air raids / Home Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PRECAUTIONS AGAINST FIRE Make sure that you know the emergency fire brigade arrangements in your neighbourhood—whether fire patrols have been established and where the nearest fire station is. : Clear the ioft, attic, or top floor of all inflammable material, paper, litter, lumber, etc., to lessen the danger of fire, and to prevent fire from spreading. If the materials are available, protect the floor of the loft, attic, or top flocr in one of the following ways—with sheets of corsugated iron or plain sheet iron (gauge 22 or thicker) or asbestos wallboard, or with 2 inches of sand (if the floor will bear the weight). It is advisable to coat all woodwork in the attic or roof space with limewash, to delay its catching fire. A suitable mixture is 2 lb. of slaked lime and 1 oz. of common salt with I pint of cold water. Apply 2 coats. For controlling an incendiary bomb (see page 27), have on an upper floor a bucket or box of dry sand or earth with: a shovel fitted with a long handle. Better still, have a Redhill sand container (Home Office Specification). It has a suitable scoop and hoe and is strong enough to hold a small incendiary bomb without risk of burning through. mains may be damaged in an air raid or the flow restricted by fire fighting operations, so make sure that you have some water ready in buckets or cans in get-at-able places about the house.