Excerpt from How to Deal With Different Kinds of Fires: Some Hints
Those generally in charge of works and property cannot be expected to have either the necessary experience or knowledge that will enable them to advantageously direct their staff to deal efficiently with an outbreak of fire, especially if materials such as chemicals that require special handling are at risk. The same disadvantages apply to their deputies, works foremen, etc.
Where works or estates have their own private fire brigades, the experience gained at actual fires by these brigades is generally so limited that their superintendents or staff rarely know how to deal with exceptional hazards, and the same applies to the majority of country fire brigades who courageously endeavour to extinguish a fire, although they are often handicapped by lack of experience, and at the same time occasionally run the gravest risks by attempting to deal with a fire in an unsuitable manner both as regards method and means used.
It is only among the experienced professional firemen and the chiefs of large retained fire brigades who have had long experience of fires or have studied these problems that the correct way of handling fires might be expected as a matter of course.
With the rapid increase of works and establishments arising out of the War, in many of which fire questions are either neglected or dealt with by men lacking experience and knowledge, innumerable inquiries reach this Committee as to the best method of dealing with various classes of fire, the questions largely relating to material of a chemical nature, the storage of certain goods such as coal, timber, and forage, or difficult fires as those in roofs and hearths in old buildings temporarily adapted for war purposes.
To meet these numerous queries a number of practical hints have been set out by Mr. Sidney G. Gamble, F.S.I., A.M.Inst.C.E., who has had a lifelong experience of fires of every description, and who was for twenty-six years (1892 to 1918) Second in Command of the London Fire Brigade. At the special desire of the Committee Mr. D. W. Wood, whose knowledge of industrial fire hazards and dangerous trades is so extensive, has collaborated, contributing much valuable information and arranging the "Red Book" in the form in which it is presented.
Sections of the proofs have had the advantage of being seen by Major A. McN. C. Cooper-Key, C.B., Dr. C. H. Lees, F.R.S., and Lt.-Col. C. E. Phipps, C.B.
The Committee trust that this "Red Book" may be of service in a large field, and above all prevent the repetition of errors whereby fires have been allowed to extend when their spread could have been readily, prevented if they had been dealt with in a more suitable manner.
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