The Suffolk Fire Experience - Doc 345 Witham Firefighter
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Events Hazardous materials course 4th November 1998
This was a strange turn of events. Good old boy SubO X was running a hazardous materials course and had decided to run a mini exercise on the new road being constructed (now millennium way). This after negotiating the stunt with the site manager. Away after a meticulous lay out and organisation the exercise comprising a wagon loaded with dangerous barrels of chemicals got under way straight after lunch. So off went the training department fire engine with the course crew on board and on time according to the brief they had been given. SubO X was at the scene already. In the distance the decrepit old banger of a fire engine could be seen getting closer. However right behind its trail was a red staff car with ADO Campion(Champion the wonder horse or Pilsbury as he was known) in it. Nothing strange about that? Well not until Pilsbury followed the fire engine onto the partly constructed road still not accessible to traffic. Hmm not only that as soon as the fire engine stopped at the exercise so did Pilsbury. Funny despite many years in the brigade good old Pilsbury had never once bothered to poke his nose into any of the training departments business.
Events Hazardous materials course 4th November 1998
This was a strange turn of events. Good old boy SubO X was running a hazardous materials course and had decided to run a mini exercise on the new road being constructed (now millennium way). This after negotiating the stunt with the site manager. Away after a meticulous lay out and organisation the exercise comprising a wagon loaded with dangerous barrels of chemicals got under way straight after lunch. So off went the training department fire engine with the course crew on board and on time according to the brief they had been given. SubO X was at the scene already. In the distance the decrepit old banger of a fire engine could be seen getting closer. However right behind its trail was a red staff car with ADO Campion(Champion the wonder horse or Pilsbury as he was known) in it. Nothing strange about that? Well not until Pilsbury followed the fire engine onto the partly constructed road still not accessible to traffic. Hmm not only that as soon as the fire engine stopped at the exercise so did Pilsbury. Funny despite many years in the brigade good old Pilsbury had never once bothered to poke his nose into any of the training departments business.
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